Help me plan my sump/fuge and other essentials please.
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:01 pm
I know I want to try and go external with pumps and skimmer. I have a hard time deciding on what skimmer and now I think I may go with the Reef Oct XP-2000 Cone Ext. I want to try and eliminate hands in the water as much as possible. I want to get pumps out of the water also. I don't know what size tank I need under the stand with a 120g display. I know it needs to be large enough that it can handle the backflow if the power goes out. What are some good external pumps?
I was thinking of running some pipes through the wall into the laundry room and having a large refugium or frag tank or both or something back there with a return going back to the tank. The hole in the wall would have to stay at the size it is now. The size of a standard electrical box opening. That will give a 2 1/2 x 3 1/3" opening. I might could just overflow through the wall into a sump, down into a largeish refugium, and then out through an external pump back to the display?
This may or may not work out with the through the wall thing so if not I may have to do the typical sump/fuge under the stand thing which is fine also. I just like the idea of the through the wall because things are very easy to get to. Maybe I can do something with SketchUp but I am terribly slow with that program.
I was thinking of running some pipes through the wall into the laundry room and having a large refugium or frag tank or both or something back there with a return going back to the tank. The hole in the wall would have to stay at the size it is now. The size of a standard electrical box opening. That will give a 2 1/2 x 3 1/3" opening. I might could just overflow through the wall into a sump, down into a largeish refugium, and then out through an external pump back to the display?
This may or may not work out with the through the wall thing so if not I may have to do the typical sump/fuge under the stand thing which is fine also. I just like the idea of the through the wall because things are very easy to get to. Maybe I can do something with SketchUp but I am terribly slow with that program.