im trying to buy or beter yet make a sump for my new 125 gal overpopulated fresh water tank. can someone show me what they think is a good idea for this? thanks.
sump designs help me please!
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Here is the sump that I am working on right now. I like to keep things simple, so this has only one baffle. It is to keep the pot scrubbers away from the pump. The simplest design that I have made was just a bucket with a pump on the bottom that was then filled with bio-media. This is just an elaborate variation of the same design. Part of the media will remain submerged (the wet part of the sump) and the other portion of the media will remain out of the water (the dry part of the sump). On top of the media will be a drip tray made of plastic pegboard. The drip tray has a layer of egg crate on the bottom to make the poly-batting flow better. I don't have a pic of the drip tray at the moment but I'll post one soon.
btw, the media goes in the large chamber. Water flows downward through it. There is a one inch gap at the bottom of the baffle to allow water to flow into the pump chamber. From there, it gets pumped to a UV and then back to the tank.
Here is my equipment set up for tha Bait Shack. It is a horizontal design. The water is dumped into one end and flows horizontally through progressive types of media. It starts flowing through a bunch of filter floss, various sizes of open cell foam and some air conditioning filter material (just for a place for bacteria to grab onto).
The wet/dry operates off line. there is a small pump in the wet sump that sends water to the wet/dry and the water is returned to the front of the wet sump.
My sump..
Water falls in one chamber full of sponge and prefilter material (chamber I), and then below the partition to chamber (2) with ceramics and more biological filter media. The the water goes below the partition to chamber (3) a thin and narrow one, full of sponge. From here (3) water goes above the partition to (4) where I put a power head and a lot o plants .Chamber 4 has 200 litres. From (4) water goes above the partition to chamber (5), again a narrow one, with filtering materials above a layer of sponge. The water goes below the partition and through the sponge into chamber (6).
In chamber (6) an 5800 litre pump pumps it back up and a 4000 litre pump alos pumps part of the water back to chamber (1) so that 4000 litres p/hour get a double turn on the sump before getting back into the tank.
I also have a small pump which sends a small quantity of water to a small wet/dry I installed above chamber (4)..
Water falls in one chamber full of sponge and prefilter material (chamber I), and then below the partition to chamber (2) with ceramics and more biological filter media. The the water goes below the partition to chamber (3) a thin and narrow one, full of sponge. From here (3) water goes above the partition to (4) where I put a power head and a lot o plants .Chamber 4 has 200 litres. From (4) water goes above the partition to chamber (5), again a narrow one, with filtering materials above a layer of sponge. The water goes below the partition and through the sponge into chamber (6).
In chamber (6) an 5800 litre pump pumps it back up and a 4000 litre pump alos pumps part of the water back to chamber (1) so that 4000 litres p/hour get a double turn on the sump before getting back into the tank.
I also have a small pump which sends a small quantity of water to a small wet/dry I installed above chamber (4)..
