Pump question

[Nykademus]

I am curious to know if a Mag 12 would be a good enough pump with about 10 feet of overhead for a 90 closed loop system?

I am planning on setting up a sump in the basement, so that most of the plumbing is out of sight.

Thanks guys.

Jeremy

 

[einsteins]

Mags are not pressure rated....so it will lose a bunch of its GPH capacity when sending water that high.

ein

 

[sgarrett1108]

http://www.reefcentral.com/cac/hlc2.php

This is a link to a head loss calculator. It lets you chose the pump how many elbows, vert. fee, horiz feet, and any other thing that may cause a head loss.

 

[sgarrett1108]

that link may not work but there is a link to it on the main reef central website.

 

[musty baby]

Why not run the mag 12 as a closed loop at 0' head and run a 2nd line down to the sump?

 

[dastratt]

Refer to this link for a chart

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/add_info.cfm?pCatId=4590#answer 4

 

[got2lb]

You wouldn't need to run the mag 12 all the way to the basement. Just have it right under/behind the tank.

 

[Nykademus]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10578661#post10578661 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ryansholl
Why not run the mag 12 as a closed loop at 0' head and run a 2nd line down to the sump?

I have been thinking on this and I may just put a fuge under the tank and do as you suggested here Ryan and run the Mag for the closed loop and run the sump up through the fuge from the basement. Maybe, I need to research it a bit more.

The reason I would like to put the sump in the basement is I really like the room that I have under the tank and would like to retain as much of that as I can. Also, I will be hooking up an RO unit finally, and that will be going in the basement. This will make it easier to hook up a top off to the sump and make water changes easier as I can just run a line to one of the basement drains.

Thanks for the information guys, I am sure there will be more questions as I have never set up a configuration like this before.