Sump Layout Help!

[Tswifty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13538071#post13538071 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FlyinggFish
Swifty, what light do you use for the plants?

I use a clamp on work light and a spiral 6500K energy saver bulb.

 

[rkelman]

Here's a picture of the 30 gallon sump I had with my 90g setup.

 

[FlyinggFish]

Doesn't look so hard anymore to create a sump! Thank so much, keep the pictures coming, please!

 

[OceanDweller]

I really like the mushroom sump idea, very good one. Eggcreate with filter floss is also a good idea if your not running filter socks and should help polish the water. A big thing to think about with a sump I think a lot of people overlook is the electrical. I personally like simple sumps, usually skimmer chamber, refugium, return/carbon area.

 

[luv4paws2]

This is a 30 long for my 110.

This is the fuge area, about half of the sump.

This is the Overflow for the fuge, I made two rows of holes in case the first get clogged, Also I made the little shelf to hold bags of carbon or the like.

This is the filter and pump section with bubble baffles, you can see the media shelf better too.

I hope this helps with any ideas for your design.

 

[luv4paws2]

I would recomend a mag7. I used one on my 54 corner for 3 years and it gave me perfect flow through the 15 gal sump I was using with the same design.

 

[Raibaru]

Here is the one I'm building this weekend. I have a thread over on the other forum and didn't really get any negative feed back.

 

[maroun.c]

Check out the first few pages of my build thread (red house) and you'll find some great info I received on sumps and how to keep waterflow quiet... the subject was rediscussed few pages later on if I remember correctly.

 

[tangtang clown]

How did you guys install your baffles, and are they glass or acrylic?

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13691768#post13691768 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tangtang clown
How did you guys install your baffles, and are they glass or acrylic?

I used acrylic baffles ( on glass sumps ), I just cut them to size, and attached them with silicone. For the middle baffle that was off the bottom of the sump I placed a piece of PVC under it -- to keep the spacing while the silicone dried.

Like this,

 

[tangtang clown]

How did you cut your baffles, and where did you get the acrylic?

 

[Raibaru]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13692904#post13692904 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tangtang clown
How did you cut your baffles, and where did you get the acrylic?

You can get acrylic at a hardware store and you can buy a cutter there to for like $5-10. They look like barbs and you make a few cuts and then snap the acrylic.

Glass you can go to a hardware store and they'll cut it to roughly the size you want. If you need to fine tune it though you'll need a dremel tool like they used for stained glass.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I picked up the acrylic at Home Depot. I cut it with a scoring tool, just score it a few times and snap it.

The blue tool is what I used to score it.

And here is a bad picture of me scoring a piece of it.

 

[tangtang clown]

What is the door and window stuff you have in the pic?

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13693122#post13693122 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tangtang clown
What is the door and window stuff you have in the pic?

The silicone that I used to attach the baffles to the sump.

 

[tigereye37]

This is going to sound like a stupid question, but which baffle determines your max water level? I'm building a sump out of a 20 long too, and i'm assuming that its the two low baffles and not the middle one. Right?

 

[Pheeshes]

the way i figured my max water level was filling the sump completely full with the return pump off, turning on the system, and seeing what the level was at in the sump. that way i know when the power goes out my sump doesn't over flow assuming the anti siphon holes on the return line function properly.