sump

[akumanohi]

as above. erm... can any one teach or rather advice mi how to make a good sump tank? pls... realli need info abt that. thankx

[blueheaven]

in what aspect?

[moxa]

Sorry to cut in.

I am going to get a 2 feet sump tank. Standard type on market with 3 compartment.

Would like reefer to advice what type of media to put inside a sump.

Considering what I am going to use.

Main tank 3ft

External Ehiem canister

Weipro skimmer 2012 (from another reefer)

returm pump (yet to decide)

over flow (ask reefer to DIY for me)

DSB in main tank - about 4" (20KG grade0 and 20KG grade1)

is it adviseable to have DSB in sump and wat is the recommended height? 4" or 6"

Many thanks.

Moxa

[tigershark]

not too sure of what do you mean by good sump tank..... however, maybe I could give u some idea what to look into when getting a sump.

The no. of compartment is depend on your need and the size of your sump. If you have a big 4'x2'x2' sump tank... you can afford to have 7~8 compartment if you want to.... however, I dun see the reason to have so many compartment. 5 compartment is more than enough in my opinion.

each compartment is use for different purpose, eg, to place your return pump, protein skimmer, refugium, chemical filtration media like active carbon & etc.

The is no specific size requirement for each compartment. However, for future upgrade, you must ensure that each compartment could cater the needs of future upgrade. eg- the compartment for skimmer should be bigger than you need now as you might upgrade to a bigger skimmer in the future. Same thing applies to your return pump compartment.... some people simply use a tank without any partition / compartment as their sump becaused their sump tank is too small to have any.... it could be done but there is some limitation on this type of design....

[akumanohi]

erm... ii think my new tank is abt 3ft in length,2.5fy in height and 2.5gt broad.ya, i wanna noe wad kinda seperation in need to make in the sump as in where to add glass wad some thing like this lorz... can u guys out there help mi?

[jesperlam]

maybe u can do a search on the DIY forum for "sump". There a few past posting regarding the construction on sump and there're designs drawn out. You can refer to that and improvise on their design...if they dont mind