Custom sump build for Cooper aka justkeepswimming

So the water will go over the baffle to the left of that and then the slanted baffle will force it to go under the bottom edge to slow it down? Is that the idea?

Would you stop jumping ahead of me Darren? I was trying to understand the idea before I dropped the bomb. Sheesh! Krazie

ya you can ask him for more detail. so the water flows under the slanted glass and the way he explained it to me was he wanted a way for more of the water to flow through his macro algae rather then just skimming across the top. so the idea of the slanted glass is that it pushes the water lower into the refugium so it flows through the macro algae. the reason for the slant is to slow the flow slightly so it doesn't drift the algae out the other end of the refugium. I hope that makes sense. he might chime in as well. I thought it was an interesting idea

Other than the obvious it looks good and everybody asks why is that piece of glass at an angle. It slows the water flow from my overflow through my fuge by the two pieces of glass getting further apart as it spills over. This also gives the water more contact time with me algae that I grow as well as does not push my sand over to the other side of that section. Hope that helps. I will upload some pics of my fuge shortly.

well the project is all finished. Here it is all full of water and ready to go



unfortunately when I went to check on the tank after being filled for a while I discovered a crack in the bottom corner and I was leaking. after a few attempts to try and repair the crack it still leaked. so the sump did not work out but I learned a lot from this project and it will be very helpful to future builds.



Edited by backwards32 - October 29 2014 at 8:20pm

Yes I am. As a matter of fact I am just finishing one for Marcos's frag tank