jamiehag
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Hi I am not new to these boards at all I just don't post much, I enjoy reading them. You can find about any answer you need by searching here. Anyway my wife and I are going to be converting our 150 reef from crushed coral to a %100 live sand bed and in the process are going to be adding a custom made sump that I desinged for ease of doing water changes. It will have about a 12 gallon +/- tank built right in it that will be filled with fresh rodi via a float valve to prevent overflow, with a thermal pump to mix and heat the replacment saltwater. (Currently I use a seperate tank with the thermal pump and have a 1/2" bulk head that is attached to a canister filter running on the tank via a tee with a valve on it. I just open the valve and the water is pumped into the main tank. (No buckets to lift.) Back to the sump design, the water in the 12 gallon tank will empty into the sump via eaither a floatvalve or manual valve. using a float valve would also allow me to also fill the tank with some fresh water that would enter the sump when the water level drops do to evaporation. Unless you dose kalk then you would not use it for that anyway. The skimmer (a Aqua-C 180) would sit in the sump and a Dolphin 3600 Aqua Sea Amp Master would be plumbed to run the skimmer and the return to the tank simply by using 1.5"x1.5"x3/4" tee's and valves. The back top of the dislay tank would have a 1.5" pipie running the length of the tank full of about 6 1.5"x1.5"x3/4" tee's that would return the water to the tank anywhere I wanted by simply hooking up to anyone or all of the six tees on the top of the tank (unused ones can simply be caped off when not in use) this would allow you to change the flow very simply down the road if you wanterd to. I will also be using a SCWID they use 3/4" plubming as well to simulate waves.
ANYWAY I would like some input on this please look at the plans let me know what you think.
ANYWAY I would like some input on this please look at the plans let me know what you think.