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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / May 2005Sump/refugium question.
I have a 55 gal. FOWLR, and am looking at building a sump from a 10 gal. tank I have. This is about as big as will fit under the stand I have. I plan on using a Mag 7 for a return pump, which at 4' of head is 480 gph. I would like to have a small refugium built into this, but would this be too much current? Maybe just live rock in the sump? Thanks, Mark That amount of current would work fine. You can partition off the middle section of your sump with baffles to create an area where you can keep your refugium >I have a 55 gal. FOWLR, and am looking at building a sump from a 10 gal. > tank I have. This is about as big as will fit under the stand I have. I [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks, > Mark >I have a 55 gal. FOWLR, and am looking at building a sump from a 10 >gal. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Thanks, > Mark I partitioned off a ten gallon to use as a sump last year. One end has a baffle for the drain. It's about 4-5" from the end and a couple inches short of the top frame. The middle of the tank has a DSB, and several hermit crabs that are too nasty to be trusted in the display tank. The other end of the sump has a bubble trap, with the three sheets of acrylic placed just far enough from the end to allow a Mag9 to be placed in the space for the return. The amount of current created by the Mag doesn't seem to bother the hermits, nor the macro growing in the fuge. "Billy" <gordygord2003@yahoo.uknow> wrote in news:atydnep2BZK-dgTfRVn- og@comcast.com: >>I have a 55 gal. FOWLR, and am looking at building a sump from a 10 >>gal. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > created by the Mag doesn't seem to bother the hermits, nor the macro > growing in the fuge. This sounds like what I'm planning. I have some panes of window glass cut to fit so that the water enters on one end, goes through a baffle to the middle/refugium, then over another partition into a section for the return pump. Thanks, Mark Mark, I would like to see a pic of this when complete. I want to do the same, but have limited knowledge of how to design it. > "Billy" <gordygord2003@yahoo.uknow> wrote in news:atydnep2BZK-dgTfRVn- > og@comcast.com: [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Thanks, > Mark > Mark, I would like to see a pic of this when complete. I want to do > the > same, but have limited knowledge of how to design it. I got my inspiration from Marc, see www.melevsreef.com billy > Mark, I would like to see a pic of this when complete. I want to do > the same, but have limited knowledge of how to design it. Certainly. I just went around to various websites like melevsreef.com and looked at the pics of other people's setups. This will be a fairly simple one, but it's cheap. I'll be sure to get a couple pics. Mark |
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