Share your sump setups

[M@T!@$]

Planning on a new tank, and main filtration will be a sump. Of course there are many different ways you can set them up and I am totally unsure of which route to take, like trickle tower ect. Need some ideas/ inspiration lol

Feel free to post some pics of your current sump setups

Thanks

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

I use a 55 for my 220. I have baffles to divide it into three chambers.



First chamber holds some sponge/filter floss and ceramic rings for bio. (I plan on doing away with the filter floss and replacing with several layers of poret foam)



Next chamber is the refugium area and also holds the heaters. I plan on putting red cherry shrimp in here.



Last chamber is the pump chamber.



I run a herbie style overflow for silence and turn over about 1600gph currently. My overflows consist of two 1.5" full siphon overflows (with each ball valve closed about half way) and a third dry 1.5" overflow as the e-drain.

Full siphon


Full siphon


E-drain


Ball valves on all drains


With my new adjustable Jebao DCP pumps, keeping the siphon going is easy and the sump is completely quiet.

I also use and InkBird heater controller to control the two heaters. It's extremely easy to use, gets great reviews on SimplyDiscus (the 308, not the 306) and is about $35 on Amazon.


I pretty much used all vinyl tubing.


If you have questions about anything specific, let me know. I can definitely get pictures of anything in my setup you want a closer look at.

What size tank are you setting up and what size sump?

 

[ProAquarist]

Here is the sump on my 300. It is a 55 with a foam block in the very first chamber where the water comes in, then K2 tumbling media, and the pump section. The pump feeds into a pond bead filter rated for 1,000 gallons (although I may pull this since the sump seems to be handling things so well on its own). The tank is a planted fancy goldfish community (live plants, fancy goldfish, scissortail rasboras, checkerboard barbs, platies, bristlenose pleco, Glofish tetras, rosy barbs, and Siamese algae eaters). It gets 90% water changes weekly.

 

[millerkid519]

125 gallon in the first picture with a 24x24x18 chamber for k1 and 10g of bio balls. Second is a 6 drawer trickle tower

 

[DN328]

I use a 55 for my 220. I have baffles to divide it into three chambers.

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First chamber holds some sponge/filter floss and ceramic rings for bio. (I plan on doing away with the filter floss and replacing with several layers of poret foam)

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Next chamber is the refugium area and also holds the heaters. I plan on putting red cherry shrimp in here.

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Last chamber is the pump chamber.

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I run a herbie style overflow for silence and turn over about 1600gph currently. My overflows consist of two 1.5" full siphon overflows (with each ball valve closed about half way) and a third dry 1.5" overflow as the e-drain.

Full siphon
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Full siphon
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E-drain
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Ball valves on all drains
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With my new adjustable Jebao DCP pumps, keeping the siphon going is easy and the sump is completely quiet.

I also use and InkBird heater controller to control the two heaters. It's extremely easy to use, gets great reviews on SimplyDiscus (the 308, not the 306) and is about $35 on Amazon.
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I pretty much used all vinyl tubing.
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If you have questions about anything specific, let me know. I can definitely get pictures of anything in my setup you want a closer look at.

What size tank are you setting up and what size sump?

What are the Irwin clamps used for?

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

What are the Irwin clamps used for?

I just use those for my peace of mind that there is no way that the overflow tubes can fall out of the sump.

 

[monkeybike]

My sump is a 40 long on my 180. I also run a 40 breeder planted tank off of it as well. I use 3 filter socks for all 3 lines going in. Jebao DCT12000 pump, 2x 300 watt + 150 watt heater running off a Ranco controller. Media is two 12x12x12 inch cubes built from light diffuser that have bio balls and bagged ceramic rings. Hole drilled in sump for drip system overflow. I run media submerged.

 

[M@T!@$]

Nice setups, I've been thinking of doing a wet dry, but now I feel like changing to a k1 sorta sump

 

[Eatsomekiwis]

50x16x18 sump
2-4" Filter socks
30lbs of pumice( matrix essentially)
20lbs crushed coral
Lava rocks
20ppi foam
45 ppi foam before pump chamber
500w heater with controller
Pothos and anacharis for nitrate removal

 

[knobhill]

I finally got around to documenting the filtration system on my 1100g--it includes two (2) 300g sumps.