Sump help needed

Do you want acrylic or glass? I can build any type of acrylic sump you want. If you want to do it yourself let me know and I can tell you where there is some good reading on acrylic sump building : )

tcfab has made some very nice looking sumps. If you're trying to make one as cheap as possible you can go to petco and pic up a 20gallon fishtank then get squares of glass at homedepot just cut them to fit for baffles and use aquarium safe silicone to put them in. Or just as effective, a lot of people just get a nice sized toat and have an intake and a return that just goes through sand rock and algae. Guess it depends on what you want.

I like this site: http://www.melevsreef.com/allmysumps.html

Acrylic is going to be much more expensive then glass it also requires a table saw and router. You will need a table mounted router and a handheld router. You will want to table saw cut all your pieces 1/8 oversize and then router finish all your edges taking 1/16th off each side leaving you your desired dimension. Also go to Melev's site and look at the "pins" method of solvent welding acrylic, this is the best way to do it. If you try and glue saw cut edges you aren't going to get a strong joint you will also have lots of bubbles this way. Best place to buy full sheets of acrylic is Professional Plastics in Ogden.

Another good place is Delvie's Plastics, here is SLC, they are real nice people to work with; they have a website as well as Professional...go head and compare prices, not sure which place has the best deals. http://www.delviesplastics.com/ http://www.professionalplastics.com/ 

Regional plastics supply is also a great place for acrylic.