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Originally Posted by buckey  I am setting up a 10G fuge and I have read some where in here that you should tee off of the return pump and have it run into the fuge?
I am thinking of building it this way:
I have an overflow from one of the corners of 55G tank that I could run right into the fuge. The inlet line to my fuge will have a gate/ball valve on it to control the amount of flow into the sump. I am going to put an outlet/overflow on the fuge that dumps right into the sump.
Does this sound OK or is there a reason I should get the water from the return pump? |
Put a Tee from the horizontal drain to sump and have the throat of the tee pointing down then add a valve in that take off line to control fuge feed rates as mentioned already But I'd add about 4 inches of sand and feed the flow at 10 gals per Hr or so.. Also when you add the feed pipe take it to the bottom and add 2 90's to U turn it back pointing up wards and feed it on the opposite end from the outlet. that forces all the slow perking water time to settle out solids and to pass the entire refugium.