Sump build

[BIG-G]

Easiest would be no baffles and bags/containers of media. Baffles are needless in my opinion

Depending on the style of overflow and the possibility of a clog or failure, There would need to be at least the last set of baffling to hold water in the center chamber where the heater is being utilized, as well as a bubble trap at the return area and to limit the amount of water the pump would be able to return to the display.
If you didn’t the pump could pump all the water out of the sump.

 

[Sac39051]

Depending on the style of overflow and the possibility of a clog or failure, There would need to be at least the last set of baffling to hold water in the center chamber where the heater is being utilized, as well as a bubble trap at the return area and to limit the amount of water the pump would be able to return to the display.
If you didn’t the pump could pump all the water out of the sump.

hmm yeah I disagree...if a drain is able to be clogged and there is no emergency drain then the system is flawed. Or, to your point, if that is a concern then simply modifying an pump’s intake height can take care of the “pumping whole sump out” risk. Not sure why a bubble trap would be needed either. Even on my reef system with a no baffle sump bubbles go to the surface before entering pump intake. With a 40 breeder that leaves plenty of room.
But folks love the idea of baffles for some reason.

To each their own, I was just suggesting that a silent, simple, and safe sump is quite easy with no baffles.

 

[BIG-G]

hmm yeah I disagree...if a drain is able to be clogged and there is no emergency drain then the system is flawed. Or, to your point, if that is a concern then simply modifying an pump’s intake height can take care of the “pumping whole sump out” risk. Not sure why a bubble trap would be needed either. Even on my reef system with a no baffle sump bubbles go to the surface before entering pump intake. With a 40 breeder that leaves plenty of room.
But folks love the idea of baffles for some reason.

To each their own, I was just suggesting that a silent, simple, and safe sump is quite easy with no baffles.

You’re right there are several ways to do it.
But not everyone has the ability to have their tank drilled for emergency drains.
If the tank was tempered then you would need to install a second overflow or at the least have two entry’s for the water into a single overflow. It does complicate thing’s.
A couple of baffle in the sump would cleaner and easier, to add the insurance.
I suppose some one could modify the pump in some way, raise it maybe.
The baffling adds a bit of neatness to the sump.
I agree you can go overboard.
To each their own.

 

[Backfromthedead]

Im with the crowd that says forget the baffles. Theyre not necessary, but i do understand people who like the organization and neatness of the baffles.

 

[Ulu]

I believe that more baffles in a sump were like more smokestacks on an ocean liner. It looks better to the customer.

I like the design with no baffles and two removable plastic buckets.

The drain goes over floss on a plastic grid, over biomedia, and out holes on the bottom of the first bucket.

The pump is in a shorter bucket with holes in it at the level I need to maintain in the sump.

In between the two buckets are the heaters, media in bags, refuge plants, reactors, etc.

Simple to build and easy to modify, and no glueing glass to plastic required.