sleasia
Active Member
I think ultimately, I will have to hand build a sort of nice stand because if you look closely at the wood chinese stand, there is a wooden ring which is screwed into all the legs, this prevents you from sliding the sump out from under the stand. the only way now to get the sump out is to empty the bowl lift it off the stand, and then lift the stand up and off of the sump.....Not too big of a problem if you have to do this only once a month, but it would definately be better to have access to the sump. so Likely next week, when the kids are away,I will design something else and just build it myself. Also my pump is a bit wimpy, I think I will get another, maybe try using a "Quiet One" which I have now mixing my saltwater for my other tank...I'm worried about the back siphoning problem because the return enters low in the tank to act as a reverse undergravel filter...it wouldn't be a problem if the return climbed up the inside of the standing drain and emptied back into the tank from the top of the standing drain...but then it would cause surface agitation, which I was trying to avoid... :thinking: