For those of you who made your own wet/dry using tiered plastic drawers, what did you guys do to handle the overflow if the mechanical filtration in the first drawer gets clogged? Did you make a hole near the top of the first drawer on the front side so that the water would just spill out into the sump or something else?
DIY tiered plastic drawer sump question
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I do not have such a system but I had planned on making one and I would have made a spout or put a hole in mine in case of this, I figure most the time they dont clog and you dont want it cloggign or it would not get on the bio filtration but in the event that that would happen it would have made me feel better.
Yea that's what I'm thinking. I would be checking on the filter anyway, but just in case I would want water to overflow out the side facing the most open part of the sump instead of letting it just overflow evenly over all 4 sides of the top and risking some of that water not landing in the sump due to proximity to the sides of the sump container.
I just let I flow over the edges into the sump(tested it to see what happens)plus I used a big rubbermaid container and positioned the three drawer tier in the middle of the contaner.
