Two pumps, two tanks, one sump

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FireMedic

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Has anyone here accomplished this. The pumps are of different manufacturers but have same gph and electrical consumption. I want to place both in the sump together and feed two different tanks with the returns to the same w/d sump.

Please, no opinions or guess's just real experience's only.

Thank you
FireMedic.
 
does anyone have a pic of a design for that, i have two tanks roughly 8' from each other and that would be an awesome idea, one tank is a 125 and the other is a 72, I have never done a sump before but i would really like to
 
This is very common in fish rooms and pet stores and super easy to set up. Add more tanks if you want to, each tank gets it's own pump. Size of the pump doesn't matter. The water that's pumped into a fish tank overflows to the sump. Larger tanks get larger pumps. You can set up the flow specifically for each tank. Of course you need to have the capacity in your sump

Attached is what my LFS uses for about 20 tanks. It's about 4'X5'X3' LxWxH

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I originally posed this question to see if anyone had an outcome that they did not expect. My instinct tells me that nothing bad will come of me placing to pumps in the sump and feeding two different tanks with two separate returns to the sump.

Thank you all for your inputs so far. I hope others learn from this as well.
Respectfully,
FireMedic.
 
Here is what you are looking at. Sumps are based on a system where gravity feeds the sump, and the pump feeds the tank. Now as long as your sump is large enough to hold the water volume of both tanks over flows, and each tanks overflows can handle each pump, you are effectively running two separate systems.
 
i am running 4 pumps to 2 tanks with 1 sump. never had any problems.
 
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