"Sealed" sump = easy water changes
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coralfragger101
Gone Postal
WAY too much trouble even if you could get it to work. THEN - once you change water once you will have to remove the "sump" to fill it with fresh water (basically doing a water change the old fashioned way). So what you end up doing is creating MORE work than if you would have just done a normal water change in the first place.
In addition to that: You won't get a "good" exchange of bad water to good water. Once water enters the sealed sump it will "mix" with that water and a "mix" of good and bad ends up going back into the display tank.
In addition to that: You won't get a "good" exchange of bad water to good water. Once water enters the sealed sump it will "mix" with that water and a "mix" of good and bad ends up going back into the display tank.
scaryperson27
New member
If I were in your situation, this is what I would do. I would run a pump through a container with two bulkheads and valves on it, from the sump, to the main tank as the return. This would give you your modular water volume that you asked for.
You could use a good food grade container.
You might be able to use a new gas/diesel container, however I don't know much about the soluble chemicals in the plastics on those containers.
This whole project isn't for me, because I take a waterchange as an opportunity to clean a lot more than just the water..
