If you have the chance too, then hell yeah sump.
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Sumps are actually really simple.
Imagine your going to your fridge for a glass of water. Some jerk decided to drill a hole in the top of your favorite drinking glass near the rim. Now no matter how much water you pour from your pitcher - the glass is never full, it never spills over the rim, instead all the water runs out of the hole. And you can pour water all day into this glass, but it never gets quite full.
Same concept, except the spilling water runs down a pipe/hose to a reservoir and gets pumped back up to the top.
Your drains should always be able to handle way more water than your pump can return. so your pump pushes water to the tank, and it falls back down again and again and again
Lol... that makes since, but what pushes the water back up to the tank? If the power goes out will the sump overflow?
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So the pump don't stay on at all times.Fill your tank, next add water to your sump. Fill it to a couple of inches above your pump suction. Run it till your water is returning to it from the tank. Shut the pump off. When the tank has finished draining back, you can see how much more you add before overflowing. You won't want to run it that full with a wet/dry,bio balls shouldn't be submerged.