Well I finally found a $1.00 per gallon sale at petco tonight and got my 40 gallon breeder tank for $42.00 and some change. I been looking at a ton of other peoples sump designs, and seen some very simple to some that are very complex. My goal is easy to maintain. I made a rough sketch if my idea. I'm open to any suggestions you sump pros got.
Water comes down the display tank from a CPR hob overflow rated at 1,500 gph. Will flow down to two CPR filter socks that are 200 micron. I have to trim the top black trim piece so I can put the filter sock holders side by side. If you look at the pics you can see the trim won't let me set in place correctly. Water will flow up and pour onto a water polisher pad that will be in an easy location to change most likely once a day. From there it will trickle down over my bio media some will be out if the water but most will be submerged. From there flow into my refugium with 4 pothos plants. Now I'm still up in the air if I want to do a second bio media are before the return pump, I think if I do I will use pot scrubbies. The return pump will be a Laguna max flow 1500gph at zero head hight. I will have a 3 1/2 foot head hight so that should put my return at about 1,300gph. As far as chamber sizes I'm waiting on the return pump to get here so I know how big the return chamber has to be and I will go from there for the rest of the sizes. We'll let me know if you have any questions. Tank is a standard 180. Heavy bio load. 3 oscars, fire eel, black ghost knife, and soon goldie pleco. I am also running an fx5 full of pond matrix. Please note that the fire eel and ghost knife are in a separate tank at the moment. And I don't have the pleco yet. My water tests show perfect with my nitrates around 20 ppm with one 30%-40%water changes a week. Thanks for the input.
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Water comes down the display tank from a CPR hob overflow rated at 1,500 gph. Will flow down to two CPR filter socks that are 200 micron. I have to trim the top black trim piece so I can put the filter sock holders side by side. If you look at the pics you can see the trim won't let me set in place correctly. Water will flow up and pour onto a water polisher pad that will be in an easy location to change most likely once a day. From there it will trickle down over my bio media some will be out if the water but most will be submerged. From there flow into my refugium with 4 pothos plants. Now I'm still up in the air if I want to do a second bio media are before the return pump, I think if I do I will use pot scrubbies. The return pump will be a Laguna max flow 1500gph at zero head hight. I will have a 3 1/2 foot head hight so that should put my return at about 1,300gph. As far as chamber sizes I'm waiting on the return pump to get here so I know how big the return chamber has to be and I will go from there for the rest of the sizes. We'll let me know if you have any questions. Tank is a standard 180. Heavy bio load. 3 oscars, fire eel, black ghost knife, and soon goldie pleco. I am also running an fx5 full of pond matrix. Please note that the fire eel and ghost knife are in a separate tank at the moment. And I don't have the pleco yet. My water tests show perfect with my nitrates around 20 ppm with one 30%-40%water changes a week. Thanks for the input.
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