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Quote: Originally Posted by saxman Dood...I absolutely HATED the ASM Mini-G...in fact, it now resides in a landfill someplace. It was VERY picky about water depth, which I fixed by adding a shelf for it to sit on in the sump. It was also made poorly and actually came apart. The original pump...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 If the guy building is good, it can easily be configured to properly brace the sump.....The area where the skimmer or intake of the sump is I can think of a couple ingenious cool ways to go about it in that area......along in the fuge area and so on....No...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 Not trying to be rude either. When you say very little bowing its the wrong way about it from the start. If it bows from the start it will get worse later. That is a fact. Brace the sump accordingly is all I'm suggesting. Your teeth or water level at 11" is...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 Not arguing what glasscages told you but if you ran that bracing idea by a top of the line acrylic builder they wouldn't do it that way. My motto is do it right or not at all. Look at how an acrylic tanks bracing is done. And with the height I assume water...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 I do see a slight flaw with the layout.....1 is a noise issue from the fuge flowing back into the skimmer section.....Honestly I wouldn't drain my fuge back into the skimmer section. I would drain it directly to the return area of the sump......As far as...

I think I have my new sump layed out. Planning on getting some plastic ordered this week maybe so I can start working. Anyone see any obvious flaws here? The intent is that the front section is the fuge, the back left is the skimmer, and the back right is the return pump. Water will flow in to...

Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills I'm digging the idea and over all design. If the return pump gets cut off then you're correct that everything would stop once the durso lost suction. If you walled off the back section then just the water level in the back section would drop. But there...

So.... Pondering my design a bit more I noticed this isn't really a closed loop. While in essence this would increase flow and give a cleaner look I noticed that if I loose power, the water can back flow through the pump lines and run down to the sump. I guess it will stop once it breaks suction...

Sounds good. That's why I was thinking of putting them close to the upper corners so they wouldn't be in the way of the rock work. I will likely put a bulkhead through the wall and attach some sort of nozzle to them so I have a little directionality to them. I should also be more free to adjust...

Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills The plan I think is good. Was size is the sump tank going to be? Was just concerned about pushing that much flow through it, You're gonna be close to 20x the tank volume of turnover rate going through that thing. The sump is going to have an 18x16 footprint...

Thank you for the input! The plan was to build an acrylic column overflow in the back, the tank is glass as I don't much care for acrylic tanks. I have the black acrylic already and I just need to build the overflow. I looked up the beananimal overflows, are they really that much quieter than...

Apparently I don't know how to post pictures yet:

After many years out of the hobby I have returned and am starting with fresh equipment. I am running a 27G cube (20x18x20), drilling the back for a custom overflow and building a custom sump to fit in the stand. The sump isn't your typical layout so I am looking for some feedback on the design...

For anyone still watching this is was a heat issue. My heater burned out. I replaced it with a Rena heater and filtration. (Both 50% off and work together conveniently). Plus it has a temp warning light. It starts blinking if the temp is wrong... Corals are starting to come back to life and my...

I believe this is a temperature issue. For some reason my heater is working but not disbursing the heat enough. I have a 250w Stealth and its set at 82, yet the tank is at about 70. I turned up the temp to see if it will come up, otherwise maybe this heater is just burning out and its time for a...