First DIY sump- 75g for 300g tank

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I've got a 6x3x27" 300g tank coming this weekend. I picked up a basically free 75g from a buddy and Plan to use that for my sump. I went to wal mart last night and picked up a Plastic 3 drawer organizer that measures 13"x13"x25" tall. Top drawer will be mechanical, middle drawer will be my wet dry w scrubbies and I plan to take the bottom drawer out, silicon a bubble trap in the middle of the 75g and fill the area prior to the trap and back to the sump w about a 5g bucket full of ceramic rings

My question now is how exactly should I run my return lines into the top of the drawers? I will try to draw up a pic in the next few minutes
 
Keep the bottom drawer handy. And buy enough scrubbies to fill it (just in case the Niagra Falls sound causes you to change your mind). Besides, the more media, the better.
 
CHOMPERS;5121615; said:
Keep the bottom drawer handy. And buy enough scrubbies to fill it (just in case the Niagra Falls sound causes you to change your mind). Besides, the more media, the better.
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To be honest, I plan on making my sump based on joey02's sump design. Not very complicated, and will handle a huge bio load. Had that idea since vamptrev posted about bio reactors. Joey just took the problems out of the design I wanted to go with. His ideas are very helpful. But do whatever you want, its your sump. Good luck.
 
Thanks for the input guys. I'm sorry I almost forgot about this thread. I'm getting the tank sun but I may have to rethink the drawer idea. The seller said the stand was 28" tall I'm going to have to measure everything first be upside that doesn't give me much room on the inside of the stand.

Currently I have 10g of established bio balls and about a half a five gallon bucket of ceramic rings that are being used on my 240g(the 300 is replacing this) so I'm really wanting a wet dry w a chamber for submerged media as well. Since I'm short on room under the stand I was thinking of ditching the drawers and going w another design. By the way, this tank will have approx 3-5 rays and one single aro so the bio load is very large
 
Ok guys, it's time for me to get to work. This is what I ran into- since the tank is 3' wide, the stand is only 28" tall and gives me little to work with. On top of that, I can't get a 75 in w out hacking up the stand. My thinking is now to use a 55g. I want to model this and just simply make a bigger version of the eshopps wetdry I have on my 240. When I get to my computer, I'm going to draw up sketch and I want you pros to show me how to get this done!

I plan on using a quiet one 9000 which should give me 6.5x turnover rate. The one thing I hate about this tank is the smaller drains, which are 1.25" id
 
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