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01-02-2007, 11:09 AM
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#41 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by Pisces23  Cool. Valves #3 and #4 looked redundant to me, so I thought I'd ask.
What size return pump are you using and do you have any pics of your Remora in the sump? | I needed to be able to shut off #3 so all the water would go to the display tank. I actually turn #2 wide open and set the flow with #4. I was afraid the pump was so big that I would need #2 to slow the flow down. I use a 1" return to a T then convert to 3/4" and it is pretty quiet. I have the Remora pulling water from the intake and exhausting it over the LR rubble chamber. I will get a pic tonight and post for you. I am using a Mag 1800 for a return pump because of a 12' head on the pump. MagDrive 1800gph Water Pump: Premium Aquatics _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "  
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01-02-2007, 06:27 PM
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#42 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by Pisces23 Cool. Valves #3 and #4 looked redundant to me, so I thought I'd ask.
What size return pump are you using and do you have any pics of your Remora in the sump? | Here are the pics of the Remora. I have e-mailed them to ask if it hurts anything to put a larger pump on this Aqua C but I have no response yet. Probably will get bubble out the spout with a bigger pump but it will never make it back to the display tank. Hope this helps.    | |
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01-04-2007, 05:43 PM
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#43 (permalink)
| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Va Beach, Va
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 Damn your sump looks better than my tanks..
Doug
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01-04-2007, 06:02 PM
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#44 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by djnzlab1 Damn your sump looks better than my tanks..
Doug
hehe | There is still a few modifications that will be done to the Refugium part of the sump. I am going to isolate the fuge with a seperate valve off of the overflow so I can slow the gph down then have it spill over into the pump chamber. Thanks for the comment!
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01-11-2007, 12:06 PM
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#45 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Georgetown, KY
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I have a few questions. Where do you buy that eggcrate stuff from?
I already have a megaflow3 wet/dry for my tank and im adding adding another 20G to use as a fuge. Im planing on putting a phosban reactor in my sump and feed into the fuge which will then simply overflow into back into the pump return section of the fuge.
Can anyone see any problem with this? I appreciate the feedback.
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01-11-2007, 01:16 PM
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#46 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Outside of Seattle, WA
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Otty, as for directing the outlet of the refugum to the pump chamber, when my system was configured in that manner, I would find that bits Cheto began to plug the inlet of the pump. Some would pass through and end up in the main tank.
Right or wrong, I have placed a filter sponge between the refugum and the pump. I do clean it weekly, and I always do see a bit of cheto.... | |
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01-12-2007, 05:58 AM
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#47 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by k9BOLX I have a few questions. Where do you buy that eggcrate stuff from? | I got mine from Menards, I was told to get the white kind not the clear. Stuff is pretty easy to work with too. | |
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01-12-2007, 06:06 AM
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#48 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by grubbsj Otty, as for directing the outlet of the refugum to the pump chamber, when my system was configured in that manner, I would find that bits Cheto began to plug the inlet of the pump. Some would pass through and end up in the main tank.
Right or wrong, I have placed a filter sponge between the refugum and the pump. I do clean it weekly, and I always do see a bit of cheto.... | I have been engineering modification to the sump/refugium due to Tangsters recomendations. I am adding a 5 1/2 gal tank next to the 30L sump to put as a fuge. It will hold the cheato (maybe) and calurpa which will OF into the sump. My old fuge area in the sump will hold mangroves I ordered last night from Hawaii so I can keep the high flow rate through my sump and the mangroves then slow the fuge way down on gph. I have two sets of baffles spaced 1" apart before my pump chamber so I haven't see any cheato get there YET? I will keep an eye on that though. Thanks for the heads up! | |
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01-18-2007, 01:26 PM
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#49 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Just wanted to post my latest updates on mu sump/fuge. This is a print of how it will look when I am done. I am waiting on the Mangroves to come in and the 5 1/2 gal tank to get drilled for the bulkhead. I will post some pics when I have everything planted. 
Last edited by Otty; 01-19-2007 at 05:12 AM.
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01-18-2007, 01:40 PM
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#50 (permalink)
| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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Looks great!! You now have two areas, one for macro and one for a sump or some mangroves. Take some pics when you have completed this Frankenstein  j/k
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