Help me make my sump!!!

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Stingray12

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I will be using a 55 gallon tank. There will be 3 chambers, each chamber with different material in it.


I was planning on using LR rubble for the first chamber but some people say its bad. Is it? any opionions?

In the second chamber I was thinking about having my media reactor with some sort of media and different kinds of media in there. any imput?


In the third my return pump, I dont know what kind to get, at a decent price. Internal or external? How do external pumps work? Does tubing connect to the pump from the sump and then you have tubing go into the aquarium?

How should I get water into the sump? Use overflow boxes? Are there other ways?
 
i'd have some kind of floss before the LR, lest gunk builds up on it and nitrates up the place

phostphate pads are always nice, nitrate sponge, etc


IDK the rest.. im not a handyman
 
i was thinking on just using my wetdry filter which has a 1200 gph overflow and 1200 gph return pump and get a fluval fx5. Do you think this will be enough?
 
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