Going Larger(sump)

[reggie060]

Since the tank is in the garage I went ahead and went with a larger size sump.100 gal trough. Now I have xtra tanks everywhere. Will be adding a Mr2 soon and a larger ex. pump.
Reggie

[JT]

More water volume is always a good thing!

[GLXTRIX]

ya know I've seen those everytime I walk into homedepot, which is quite often actually, and been thinkin about getting one of those, then I think to myself, the only tank that I have currently working is a 10g LOL.

[Daytona955]

what did that monster cost ya?

[kj_yoda]

I've always been currious how much those cost

[three90s&125sump]

Originally Posted by GLXTRIX

ya know I've seen those everytime I walk into homedepot, which is quite often actually, and been thinkin about getting one of those, then I think to myself, the only tank that I have currently working is a 10g LOL.

I would get the 150 gallon one in your situation then.

[kj_yoda]

LMFAO. sounds like someone I konw, a 10 gallon tank wtih a 150 gallon sump. a bit of overkill. LOL

[three90s&125sump]

Its never over kill when it comes to added water volume. The stability alone will make up for the cost to run it let alone the filtering capacity of the extra surface area you can place in that sump. I have always said I would have a 125 sump for a 1 gallon nano.

[reggie060]

I saw that they had the 110 gal on sale online for 50$$ but when I saw the 100 gal and the way that its made I put out 20 more $$ for 10 less gals. The 110 was thinner and more flexable and had no drain. I saw a post here where someone in the club has 3 of these running his sys, made me think
Reggie

[mojo]

Those troughs work great to hold water - solid and durable. Just one word of caution, though- getting rid of microbubbles (through baffles or whatever) is almost impossible in those tanks - it's just not the right shape to work with...

[Ray1214]

Reggie where did you get the trough? Also one other question, are you getting rid of the old sump with the bottom drilled?

Ray

[robsmith32]

Note, Anthony Calfo quote on the infamous Protein Skimmer thread over on RC.

If instead you simply sit your skimmer in an open sump... you may just want to unplug it and save the electricity. I'm guessing you get a full cup of skimmate out of that skimmer once weekly or less. It’s no great surprise. Some skimmers can perform well this way... but most do not. And it’s as much to do with size (small) and flow (high) of the sump that makes skimmers in open sumps work at all.

Granted, you can put a rubbermaid in that big tub to house the skimmer..

[Daytona955]

What is his recommendation? Does he advise to hae less water volume with a high turn over rate for the skimmer? Never heard of this idea, but I guess it makes sense.

[robsmith32]

Nah, his suggestion is to have a compartment just big enough to house the skimmer or just the pump even. and it overflow into the sump.
or baffles..
kind of hard to do baffles in that trough

If you look in the old all things salty forum on rc, its still linked. LOTS of good info in there.

[GeorgeW]

I just read through this thread and was wondering about the part with the skimmers in the sump.

Is the intention to have your skimmer skim and re-skim the same amount of water over and over with a refugium-like water flow? Or is the intention to maximize flow to the skimmer intake so it passes as much of the water through a skimming "pass" as possible per hour?

I am running a Euroreef CS6-2+ in a 10 gallon tank sump (about 6-7 gallons full) on a 20 gallon reef. Yes, it's overkill. But when I go to a 75, I was going to use a sump that's almost that big, should I use a smaller, perhaps secondary, sump for the skimmer that has greater flow?