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Hi all. I got my baffles cut by the local glass mob and put them in to the sump today. I ended up going for a simple three chamber design, I was thinking of trying to fit a DSB/frag/? section in there but it was going to be a hassle and not really enough room to be useful.
The sections are refugium - return - skimmer. I took out the brace above the skimmer section so the skimmer will fit, I will probably move the brace over a little bit where it will fit. I have about 90L of room for a power outage above the sumps normal operating level.
Checking the spacings between the skimmer and return pump
Middle baffle in
Refugium baffle
All baffles in
I left 50mm in between each baffle in the bubble trap to fit the heater(s). The skimmer operates at 250mm - 280mm, so I made the skimmer side 280mm. I can always raise the skimmer if I have to. The 280mm also just covers the heater inside the bubble trap.
The sections are refugium - return - skimmer. I took out the brace above the skimmer section so the skimmer will fit, I will probably move the brace over a little bit where it will fit. I have about 90L of room for a power outage above the sumps normal operating level.
Checking the spacings between the skimmer and return pump
Middle baffle in
Refugium baffle
All baffles in
I left 50mm in between each baffle in the bubble trap to fit the heater(s). The skimmer operates at 250mm - 280mm, so I made the skimmer side 280mm. I can always raise the skimmer if I have to. The 280mm also just covers the heater inside the bubble trap.
All I do is run a bead of silicone up each side of the glass and run my finger along it to smooth it out. It's only the sump so doesn't matter if it is a bit smudgy. Priscacara as long as it holds the glass then its all good lol. Im pretty sure clag still exists!
No big deal though. Hopefully I will get the glass cut for the weir this week.
Nice work on the sump
1. Not sure if you are aware or not but you can remove the outer cage for the Laguna and make the footprint significantly smaller. Issue is they don't have a stand and the bottom isn't flat.
2. Are you going to feed the ref and skimmer chamber independently. I'm a little confused as to direction the water will be going through the sump, with the return chamber needing to be the last.
1. Not sure if you are aware or not but you can remove the outer cage for the Laguna and make the footprint significantly smaller. Issue is they don't have a stand and the bottom isn't flat.
2. Are you going to feed the ref and skimmer chamber independently. I'm a little confused as to direction the water will be going through the sump, with the return chamber needing to be the last.
Hi Buddy,
Did you do a calc to ensure you have enough capacity in your sump above the buffles to hold the DT drain on power fail, they camera angle the height looks quite high.
I battled with bubbles in my return section, and I had a three piece bubble trap like yours. My problem was that the last baffle (on the return section) was too high and the water cascaded over it like a water fall into the return, then the pump would suck the bubbles in. So if you plan to keep the return section level at a ~height close to the top of the baffle its OK. On my system with the ATO in the return section, the level was set to about ~100mm lower than the baffle. I have a mini sump so I may have different issues。。
Going to be a great setup, If you need a hand on final setup singout
Did you do a calc to ensure you have enough capacity in your sump above the buffles to hold the DT drain on power fail, they camera angle the height looks quite high.
I battled with bubbles in my return section, and I had a three piece bubble trap like yours. My problem was that the last baffle (on the return section) was too high and the water cascaded over it like a water fall into the return, then the pump would suck the bubbles in. So if you plan to keep the return section level at a ~height close to the top of the baffle its OK. On my system with the ATO in the return section, the level was set to about ~100mm lower than the baffle. I have a mini sump so I may have different issues。。
Going to be a great setup, If you need a hand on final setup singout
Thanks!
I saw that you could remove the cage but I wanted a decent volume of water in the return section so I decided to leave it, The pump not laying flat and causing vibrations would have been an issue anyway.
The display tank will flow in to the skimmer section and then in to the return section. I am going to tee off the return to the refugium, chiller, reactor etc, so the flow from the refugium will flow in to the return section.
Yup I have ~70 litres to spare in the sump at its operating level. If the power went off I calculated that the top 6" of the weir (the height of my syphon drain) and the height of the water of the display tank was at the top of the weir comb (it won't be this high but just for a safety margin) ~40 litres will drain in to the sump.
The laguna pump needs a minimum 200mm depth to run properly, so I made the baffle 280mm high with a plan to run the water level 250mm in the return section. The skimmer operates at 280mm so it should balance out well. There is going to be a bigger difference in the refugium to return baffle so if it is noisy/bubbly I might have to reduce the flow in the refugium.
Thanks again for the heater!
Thanks @macca_75
A dosing pump came up at a good price and was only around the corner from me so I picked it up today, it is only a couple of months old with very little use. When I picked up the pump the guy chucked in two bubble magus dosing containers, a bubble magus hose holder for the dosing hoses and enough calc and alk to last me about 33 years haha so I was pretty happy about that! I've got the pump set up on my nano until this tank is ready for it.
A dosing pump came up at a good price and was only around the corner from me so I picked it up today, it is only a couple of months old with very little use. When I picked up the pump the guy chucked in two bubble magus dosing containers, a bubble magus hose holder for the dosing hoses and enough calc and alk to last me about 33 years haha so I was pretty happy about that! I've got the pump set up on my nano until this tank is ready for it.
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