Tank going into sump ?

[SFish]

Ok so I want to go from the DT to another tank which will have a deep sand bed and then go into my sump. The deep sand bed tank will be taller then the sump. I want to gravity feed the system into the sump. Will this work? I plan on running the sump at 5X for my speed. My thought is to drill the sand bed tank for the in and out.

Thoughts ideas ect

Thanks

 

[slief]

Personally, I'd run the DSB tank down stream from the sump so you are not accumulating waste and detritus on the surface of the DSB. Your skimmer will remove some of that or if you run socks like I do, your socks will remove the solids, skimmer will removed dissolved solids and the DSB/Fuge will help to remove nitrates and other stuff from the water.

 

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Thanks

 

[slief]

Also, depending on how the water goes from the display into the DSB, the crashing of the water may disturb the DSB and kick sand up into the water column which will drive your skimmer crazy. You would really want something to slow the water down going into the DSB like socks so that it's distributed evenly across the DSB.

Perhaps this will give you some ideas. This is the fuge I designed for a DSB and creates even flow across the entire fuge. The slots are in a false wall and are raised 5" off the bottom so as to not disturb the DSB and they run the entire width of the front where the water enters and the entire width of the back where the water goes to the return section. It insures even flow across the entire width of the fuge and it's amazing calm in there despite the radical flow. I run 3000+ GPH through this thing.

This is the sump and fuge/DSB box.

 

[SFish]

Ok so to do this I would probably have to raise the sump up. I got a 20 gallon long. I will have to get the glass drilled as well because the sump is glass.

 

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Where did you get the black pieces with the slits?