Sumps

[Diana Caye]

Anyone have any plans on the layout of a home-made sump?? Any tips on cost effectiveness??

 

[jsr]

[welcome]

Check out this site...
http://www.melevsreef.com/allmysumps.html

 

[Drag Racer]

WHat I found cheaper and easy to do is take a old wet dry set up if you can find one used and get some acrylic and make a few baffles, I built one for less than $100.

 

[jsr]

You can also you a standard glass tank and add baffles, as Racer stated above. I used a regular 29G tank for my sump and bought some 1/4 inch plexi from Home Depot to make the baffles.

 

[ludiNano]

Melevsreef is a good site to get ideas for baffle placement and shows many different designs.

 

[Jester]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11658912#post11658912 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jsr
You can also you a standard glass tank and add baffles, as Racer stated above. I used a regular 29G tank for my sump and bought some 1/4 inch plexi from Home Depot to make the baffles.

Samething I did with my 10 gallon sump/fuge... laser cut some plexi and put it in there... probably cost me $25 for the sump...

 

[ronjeremy311]

ditto on melevs reef

Lots of good information there. As far as cost goes, it depends on what you are trying to do.