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Cloudk

Cloudk

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Hello. I'm looking for someone to help me set up a custom sump. I only know the very BASICS of sumps and have never used one or set my hands on one other than mine. The sump is 125 gallon I believe, I'm told it has all the piping etc. The intake isn't like any other I can find, so as a noob, I'm stumped. I can only pay for your gas... I live near Everett, Washington. If this isn't the right spot to put this, please let me know. But I didn't think it belongs in the marketplace. Thanks to anyone willing to help a noob!
 
Pictures will go a long way on here. People can probably tell you exactly what you need to do if you post pictures of your setup.

Also, you mentioned that the sump is 125 gallon, is that the sump or the tank? If that's the sump then how big is the main tank?
 
Post pictures and I'll almost bet we can tell you exactly what you have to do without you paying any weird creepy fish people to show up to your door lol.

125 gallon sump? damn is that going under a pond? must be a massive tank.
 
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Just think of a sump like a canister. What must goes in must go out. I got so confused when I first started out with a sump but it's so 10X easier than you think. People on here make it seem complicated doing all this crazy stuff to it. A sump really is a sump that's it you don't even need to make baffles. Just have a tray system and fill wth tons of media and then add more to sump area and that's it a pump to push back to your tank.

Pictures will help your sump will already be ready for installation im assuming since its second hand.
 
I agree with Ihsnshaik, a sump is just a box. Water falls in by gravity from the main tank, and is pumped back to the tank.
I don't use any baffles in mine, or trays. I put bio-media in mesh bags laying around anywhere, put heaters in horizontally anywhere, the pump on one end and the drains from tank on the other, with filter socks hanging on the outflow pipes.
For me a sump is all about ease of maintenance.
The bags of media are rinsed regularly with water change water, and the filter socks are rinsed whenever water changes are done.
 
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duanes said:
I agree with Ihsnshaik, a sump is just a box. Water falls in by gravity from the main tank, and is pumped back to the tank.
I don't use any baffles in mine, or trays. I put bio-media in mesh bags laying around anywhere, put heaters in horizontally anywhere, the pump on one end and the drains from tank on the other, with filter socks hanging on the outflow pipes.
For me a sump is all about ease of maintenance.
The bags of media are rinsed regularly with water change water, and the filter socks are rinsed whenever water changes are done.
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He couldn't of said it any better. This is spot on.

Also you need to figure out how big the hoses are so your pump can pump out accordingly. How big is the tank? 125 gallon sump I'm assuming your tank is 300-500 gallons.
 
predatorkeeper87 said:
Post pictures and I'll almost bet we can tell you exactly what you have to do without you paying any weird creepy fish people to show up to your door lol.

125 gallon sump? damn is that going under a pond? must be a massive tank.
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It's a 375, and that's exactly the type of person I'm hoping to avoid... I'll post pics in a bit. I'd love to be able to do it myself, but I definitely need some kind of help!
 
Cloudk said:
It's a 375, and that's exactly the type of person I'm hoping to avoid... I'll post pics in a bit. I'd love to be able to do it myself, but I definitely need some kind of help!
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We need pics of tank as well. I'm telling you if you can attach a pipe and use clamps thats all it is. Do you already have a pump for it?
 
Ok. Tank too. I have a biga$$ dolphin pump that I got for free with my old 400 which I never set up, then sold for this 375 set up. I'm hoping it will work with the 375 sump.
 
Top, bottom, then whole tank. The three pipes in what's supposed to be the intake/overflow is what's confusing. And of course, the genius I am; I deleted the sellers number... Hopefully my problems are just the ignorance of a noob... I'm reinforcing the tank, so, sorry about the tape in the pictures. :/

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