Need ideas for this huge sump!!

[rayman45]

looking mint..

 

[Waverz]

Sweet. It'll make a one of a kind table. Keep an eye out for a glass table top from craigslist.com or Goodwill. Ditch the base and you are good to go. A Goodwill here has two, one for thirty dollars and another for sixty. Cant go wrong with that.

The base was just temp, im gonna build something nice for it, and trim the rest out out in oak. I already have a piece of plate glass from a table that will fit it perfectly.

 

[moxxommox]

MATRIX ROCK!!! or Lego!

that would work a treat.

 

[Waverz]

Hmmm legos would be cool....

 

[dr_sudz]

Going back to your question about the sump, You should build yourself a bio tower, a place where the water trickles down over your bio balls and into the sump. The tower is slightly submerged so that you have both components of your wet/dry plus it keeps everything together. The top of the tower is where you keep floss so that you can filter out alot of the crap before it goes over the balls. That is a kick ass set up should be pretty easy to keep clean with that much extra water volume.

 

[Waverz]

Going back to your question about the sump, You should build yourself a bio tower, a place where the water trickles down over your bio balls and into the sump. The tower is slightly submerged so that you have both components of your wet/dry plus it keeps everything together. The top of the tower is where you keep floss so that you can filter out alot of the crap before it goes over the balls. That is a kick ass set up should be pretty easy to keep clean with that much extra water volume.

The problem with that is the sump needs to be under the table so theres not much room unless i have it sitting 3 feet off the ground. Im going to start building a drip tray for the overflow part of the tank. So bascally the water flows over the overflow through filter pads, then through the drip tray, finally over the dry bio-balls. From there, it goes to the first chamber of teh sump which will be packed full of scrubbie pads. So basically all i have to do for maintenence besides water changes is replace the filter pad.

 

[CHOMPERS]

The base was just temp, im gonna build something nice for it, and trim the rest out out in oak. I already have a piece of plate glass from a table that will fit it perfectly.

I wasn't knocking your base, sorry for the missunderstanding. I meant ditch the table base that you get with the table top. I wouldn't think you would use your current stand for for part of a dining room table can't wait to see the finished table.

 

[CHOMPERS]

The problem with that is the sump needs to be under the table so theres not much room unless i have it sitting 3 feet off the ground. Im going to start building a drip tray for the overflow part of the tank. So bascally the water flows over the overflow through filter pads, then through the drip tray, finally over the dry bio-balls. From there, it goes to the first chamber of teh sump which will be packed full of scrubbie pads. So basically all i have to do for maintenence besides water changes is replace the filter pad.

Here is a thought to clean up the looks under the table...if your house is not on a concrete slab, drill through the floor and put the filter and other equipment in the basement.

 

[Waverz]

I wish i could do that, i just dont have room in the basement for that big *** thing....or do I? Im gonna be closing on the house this week so i gotta wait till then to figure it all out.

 

[CHOMPERS]

to put the epuipment in the basement you will need a pump that can pump pretty high. I am having that issue right now with my system.