Sump Help With Reef Ready Tank (pics)

[Marlo Stanfield]

Hello All

first off, this is my first time using a sump, my last tank was not pre drilled and im not very mechanically inclined unfortunately. im consolidating my 55 thats running now into this tank.

i bought this set up off CL and it also came with some Halide lights that i also have questions about and over 100 lbs of rock, all told i have about 200 lbs of rock, ill just use about half or a lil more i guess. i have 4 koralia power heads. i also have some fish, feather duster, a brown polyp coral and a clean up crew.

i will be doing some research on a skimmer and ordering whatever seems best for the money, im strongly leaning toward a reef octopus of some sort, i was thinking a nwb150..

the tank is a 75 gallon, the dimensions are 48"x18"x21". the dims of the sump are 16x15 on the low slide and 15x10 on the high side. low side is 12 1/2 high and high side is 15 1/2 high.

my main issues are hooking it up in general but also how to set the sump up, high side on which side? return and intake on which sides? where to put the skimmer once i get it? do i look like i have all the equipment needed to hook it up properly? the guy i bought it from had it hooked up but im not sure it was the best hook up possible.. and he wasnt using plastic hose clamps, he was using metal, things like that...

i have like 4 or 5 pumps and the one he was using as the return pump is a quietone 4000..

also, i have a BRS carbon/ GFO reactor that im pretty sure im just going to sell on CL, i dont really wanna use it, i wanna stick to the basics right now..

any help would be GREATLY appreciated as i realy wanna hook this up as soon as possibly, my living room is a cluttered mess :rollface:

 

[Palting]

You have a Marineland 75 gallon with cornerflow overflow. My 150 gallon is also made by the same manufacturer. If you have the hardware inside that overflow, it should be easy enough for you to figure out which one is the drain and which one is the return.

Your sump looks like a modified AGA wet dry sump, maybe a model 2. I have a similar sump hooked up to my 110 gallon, but a model 3. If it is that, it has been modified. Anyway, the high side is usually the drain side, and the low side is usually the return side. Water drains into the high side, then flows under that big baffle to end up in the low side. There are some missing baffles, these usually trap microbubbles, and then there is a closed off bulkhead that likely was originally designed to be attached to an external return pump. The space between that big baffle and the missing baffle and bulkhead was likely meant to house the skimmer. I have no idea what that vertical piece of PVC is meant to do, but that looks like an add-on.

 

[Marlo Stanfield]

You have a Marineland 75 gallon with cornerflow overflow. My 150 gallon is also made by the same manufacturer. If you have the hardware inside that overflow, it should be easy enough for you to figure out which one is the drain and which one is the return.

Your sump looks like a modified AGA wet dry sump, maybe a model 2. I have a similar sump hooked up to my 110 gallon, but a model 3. If it is that, it has been modified. Anyway, the high side is usually the drain side, and the low side is usually the return side. Water drains into the high side, then flows under that big baffle to end up in the low side. There are some missing baffles, these usually trap microbubbles, and then there is a closed off bulkhead that likely was originally designed to be attached to an external return pump. The space between that big baffle and the missing baffle and bulkhead was likely meant to house the skimmer. I have no idea what that vertical piece of PVC is meant to do, but that looks like an add-on.

thanks alot for the reply, i was wondering how to find out who manufactured it so im glad you knew. as far as the missing baffles in the sump is concerned, i was dissapointed to see that he didnt have those over/ under baffles when i went to pick up the tank but ill make due with what i have for now as im moving in a year and will just upgrade then.. any advice on what i should do to potentially reduce the microbubbles gettting back into the tank without the baffles being added? his tank was set up and it didnt have any micro bubbles in there so im hoping i wont either. although he also didnt have a skimmer working at the time (also dissapointing) so i know that will probably change the game..

if im understanding you correctly i should hook up the skimmer with the high side on the left and would put the skimmer in there too right? so the water has to run under the one big baffle to get to the return side on the right?