Show off your SUMP!

all very inspiring. so many way to design a sump. any one have built in ATO res. I am making a 29H for my 40br DT and was thinking of doing that.

i'll see if i can dig up my 40br sump for my last 75 i made.
 
here is a sketch up for my 40br i made a few years ago...tank was only up for about 8-10 moths tho...

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It's a design I came up with.

Based on the first pic, the water enters the small upper left corner, flows up/over the filter socks. Then into the skimmer section, over/under/over bubble trap, middle return pump section. The return will be tee'd for the sections on the right side. I'm going to use the right side for a 10.5 gallon water change chamber, or refugium. I'm not sure what I'm going to use the other chamber for, in the lower right corner, but it can feed off the tee return or I can use it for ATO.

I drilled the hole to relieve the surface water from being trapped in the filter sock section. I'm cutting some PVC sheet material to mount two 4" x 10.5" socks.

The BA siphon and secondary will terminate into the small section, the emergency will terminate into the skimmer section. The skimmer section is 11.50" x 10.625", 9" height.
 
Simple DIY

Simple DIY

My first reef tank, so this is the sump for it, bioballs are temporary till i get my Skimmer before i get the nitrate police called on me. I wish it were larger but a 40b is all i can manage under my 150g tall tank, id like a larger fuge, but otherwise im happy with its functionality thus far.
 

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