I'm working on setting up my sump and want some feed back. Please offer any suggestions, or ideas to make it a 'better' sump.
It's a 29 gal tank, 12 w x 24 l x 16 t dimensions.
Since my tank has two drains, I was going to plumb one to the skimmer side with a sock, and one straight to the return pump side, no sock for now, to help slow down the flow through the skimmer/media reactors/refugium.
I've been loaned a bubble magus NAC6 skimmer that one of my friends isn't using/going to use in the near future, since my Eshopps PSK-100H pump broke where the pump cover fastens down.
I'm trying to figure out where to re-mount the division panels in the sump. The biggest problem is the loaned skimmer foot print--it takes 6.5" x 11" with the intake. On a tank 12" front to back this is causing me some grief. I'm also trying to keep space for a refugium, and a submersible little giant return pump (though I could use one of the little giant external pumps I picked up. . . ).
If I place the skimmer intake in the corner of the tank (skimmer would sit mostly diagonally), with about .5-.75" spacing to the glass, it takes 8" of the 23.5" available inside the sump. This also leaves me at least a 4x4 area for the filter socks. If I place it so it only takes 6", I no longer have room to put a filter sock in that area since it occupies 11.5", and about 9.5" not counting the intake.
I've figured 5.5" for the return pump, with 10" or so for a refugium? The skimmer area is 13" deep (what my hob ran best at, I can raise the bubble magus if needed), with the refugium area 10" deep (previously 8.5" deep by 9" wide), though I plan on using 3-4" of sand in it, along with chaeto/caluerpa.
Any thoughts, or things I should consider changing? I can cut down the glass panels if needed--I have two 13" tall, (was going to do a bubble trap style--the second mounted at the top of the tank forcing the water to flow down under it, but don't know how much space it needs, and I'm running short on space anyways) one 10" tall, and one 8.5" tall piece.
Edited by Crazy Tarzan - February 19 2014 at 10:04pm