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12-17-2004, 09:28 PM
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Got Crabs?
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Fuge In Sump
I am in the process of setting up a 75 gallon with a 20 high sump. I want to add a fuge to the system and was thinking of putting it in the sump. How I plan on doing this is the tank will drain into a PVC t and split off one drain to the fuge that will be propped up in the sump about 4 inches. The other drain will go into the main portion of the sump. The drain to the fuge will have a ball valve to adjust flow. The tank I am going to use for the fuge is a 5 gallon tank. The water will overflow the sides of the five gallon tank into the sump to be returned to the tank. Did I confuse ya? What are your thoughts on a setup like that?
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12-17-2004, 09:34 PM
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Kichi Saru!
Join Date: Feb 2004
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What are you usuing the fuge for? If you are usuing it to grow macro algae then I would just have it gravity feed back into the sump. but if you plan on usuing it to grow pods ect., then I would have the fuge gravity feed right back into the display tank. Instead of it feeding back into the sump, so that the pods don't get chewed up by your return pump.
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12-17-2004, 10:23 PM
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Reef Society Duluth/Mpls
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12-17-2004, 10:38 PM
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Got Crabs?
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Useing it for macro and pods. As far a the siphon goes I don't see how it would siphon any more than the drain line into the sump would? The refugium will constantly be overflowing water into the sump.
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12-17-2004, 10:46 PM
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Overthinks Everything
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Crystal, MN
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If I read your post right you're wanting drain plumbing something like the way I did mine...
Here's my 20L sump...
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12-17-2004, 10:50 PM
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Reef Society Duluth/Mpls
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12-17-2004, 11:02 PM
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Big Fishy
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12-17-2004, 11:10 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Roseville, MN
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fuge
Put the skimmer upstream from the fuge. After that put the fuge wherever after that. After the skimmer don't worry about it. Plankton shear/ Impellor shear  Don't worry about it.
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12-18-2004, 01:05 AM
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Got Crabs?
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That is exactly what I am going to do. (drawing and skimmer placement upstream.)
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12-18-2004, 06:57 AM
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Flounder
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Rochester, Minnesota
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Brian, is your fuge on the right in the photo? In that case...is your return pump being put in the center of the sump?
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12-18-2004, 08:47 AM
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Got Crabs?
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going to be drain line into the left side of sump with the skimmer on the left side. Then return pump in the middle then fuge on the right side of the sump.
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12-18-2004, 12:18 PM
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Overthinks Everything
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Originally Posted by jjwdiver
Brian, is your fuge on the right in the photo? In that case...is your return pump being put in the center of the sump?
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Yes it is.
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12-18-2004, 08:14 PM
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Anti-Acan Activist
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My sump is setup the same as Brian's... My decision to put the skimmer and fuge NOT in-line with each other is so that the fuge doesn't become worthless by having to high of a flow rate through the sump. For macro algae to be efficient in soaking up nutrients it needs to have a long contact time with the water.
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12-18-2004, 09:29 PM
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Got Crabs?
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how many gph for the fuge then as far as flow is concerned? 50, 100 gph?
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12-18-2004, 10:20 PM
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Overthinks Everything
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I was told as low as you can get it & still have some type of flow will make it most effective. I copied my sump from a bunch on RC & from http://www.melevsreef.com
Others run theirs will the entire sumps flow going through it & will tell you that's the way to go. It's one of those things where opinions differ.
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