Is it even worth it if your going to have to use a canister filter as the pump for a sump
for a while?
It would not in increase the output by any means. But will water in BB longer be benificial?
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The pump for our wet/dry filter quit working on a Friday afternoon. We live in a rural area and purchase all our equipment online. I got a pond pump from our local feed/hay store and threw it in my sump. It was much cheaper than the original with less gph, but it returns the water quite adequately.
In our new system which has yet to be set up, I plan on pumping the water from my sump back to the main tank via an Ultima 4000/Barracuda Gold pump. The sump is very large, and I don't anticipate any problems.
Right now, we have an FX-5 sitting on the floor. It removes water from our 300 gallon tank and then returns it 4' to the top of the tank. So pumping uphill is not a problem. The only potential problem I see with using a canister filter to return water from a sump is if the gph on the canister exceeds the gph of the overflow to the sump. With a pump, the return line can be valved to be able to reduce the flow rate back to the tank. Pump or canister filter, you don't want to pump your sump dry. You can have more control with a pump with a plumbed in return line. If you have a large sump, pumping it dry probably won't be a problem.
