90 gallon acrylic sump.

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Old sump removal.
Template for drilling thru the floor into basement.
Note: The verticle 3" × 4" .25" wall steel column.
Looking down into the " walk in sump"
The purple grow light is not growing any thing illegal. It's a hydroponics experiment.
See it's a single long narrow leaf weed. With daisy like flowers.
The temporary sump. As I finish the sump

 

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Its slowly going,

 

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Return pump, with blue discharge hose as a flexible connector to the bottom drain on the sump. The valve in the front. Is for clean out. Very quiet with only 1/2" of water inside the sump.
The main noise trouble area was the filter socks. I installed extensions on the 4 discharge tube, solved it for the mean while. Ran out of time , to finish every thing. Currently have the old bio balls in the scrubber chamber.

My wife went to the ER after hitting a 10 point buck deer, about 3 hours after I pulled the old sump out last Thursday. She's ok bruised, up from a full air bag deployment.
Then my temporary sump failed as my 30 year old Enhiem sump pump quit pumping enough water to do any good.
I have the seive going as of last night. This morning it was about completely plugged from the Sunday, flake feeding frenzy.

 

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Ammonia is at zero, so my flow is good.

The over flow off the sieve diverts water away from bio filtration. Probably still had 75% going thru after 12 hours.

I plugged a single 200 micron nylon 6" x 14" sock in 24 hours, but it also had some pipe debris that got knocked loose.

The 300 micron sieve, hopefully will catch enouph to keep the sock cleaning a weekly chore.

It takes about 10 seconds to clean with the built in sink sprayer. That's plumbed into the little giant circulation loop.

 

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Some flow checking,
Aluminum duct tape on the non glued, suction side.

 

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Got fry, working on the hatchery, egg tumbler.

 

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Filter sock holder, with nylon muffler tube.
The dual 6" filter socks.

 

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New algea growth on balls, The algea has really taken off after a week.

This is new territory for me as I have never seen an algea ball this heavily covered. It is has almost covered all the surface areas inside the scrubber. Might have to add a power head with the discharge aimed to create a flow that will help sluff off the algea. It is the soft fine hair algea so it should sluff off with out too much hassle.

The sieve is able to pull out about an ounce per day in weight, but requires daily attention, to the post floss. If I want to keep it out of the water. The dump side simply goes into a filter sock, it just bypasses the algea scrubber.

It's about 75 % flow thru, on a 4 day cleaning cycle, it's a work in progress.

 

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3m heavy duty velcro.

I think I found a way to sluff the algea balls, they were starting to jam on the yellow zip tie attached to the wires.

I cut off about 2" of the white light bar PVC. Then by lowering it it wedges the balls between the pvc light, and the pvc 1" discharge pipe.

Accelerated with their up flow thru the air stone. They now have enouph motion to self clean.