crazynewbie
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Hi everyone!
I think this is my first ever post even though I have been reading these forums for about two years.
Last summer for about a month. my aquarium temp kept soaring to the 83 range while I was at work. I lost a few heads on one of my hammer corals and lost two acro frags. Lucky me, a younger employee at a LFS sold me a 1/4 HP Arctica chiller that looks new and seems to work fine for 200.00. This is an 800+ dollar chiller online. It is way oversized for my tank though. I have a 65 gallon tank and I have the largest sump I could put under it.
So for my question...
It would be extremely difficult to reroute my return through the chiller and I'd need to add a few 90 degree angles. I was wondering, could I put a pump under my filter socks (Eshopps R-200 sump..I think) and use braided tubing to make it out to the chiller? Then I would have the chiller return pump it back by the skimmer and return chamber.
I was thinking that way I would be processing more water from display tank. It seems it wouldn't work as well sucking and dumping into the same chamber of the sump.
My return is a Varios 4 dialed to 80%. The pump I have for chiller is a Varios 2. Chiller says minimum water flow should be 480.
I would love to hear your guys' thoughts.
Thanks,
Tony.
I think this is my first ever post even though I have been reading these forums for about two years.
Last summer for about a month. my aquarium temp kept soaring to the 83 range while I was at work. I lost a few heads on one of my hammer corals and lost two acro frags. Lucky me, a younger employee at a LFS sold me a 1/4 HP Arctica chiller that looks new and seems to work fine for 200.00. This is an 800+ dollar chiller online. It is way oversized for my tank though. I have a 65 gallon tank and I have the largest sump I could put under it.
So for my question...
It would be extremely difficult to reroute my return through the chiller and I'd need to add a few 90 degree angles. I was wondering, could I put a pump under my filter socks (Eshopps R-200 sump..I think) and use braided tubing to make it out to the chiller? Then I would have the chiller return pump it back by the skimmer and return chamber.
I was thinking that way I would be processing more water from display tank. It seems it wouldn't work as well sucking and dumping into the same chamber of the sump.
My return is a Varios 4 dialed to 80%. The pump I have for chiller is a Varios 2. Chiller says minimum water flow should be 480.
I would love to hear your guys' thoughts.
Thanks,
Tony.