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DIY Awesome Sump Design


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DIY Awesome Sump Design:

 

Simple 20 gallon tall.

No refugium or ATO chamber.

 

That small chamber holds the down drain pipe. Acts as a bubble remover, a heater chamber, a snail or hermit catch. Water flows out and down into the sock. When the sock is full it waterfalls off the lip, audibly make you aware that sock is full.

 

Change the sock without touching or fighting with the slippery drain pipe. Quick, clean, easy.

 

The first baffle can hold floss filter, or maybe a bag of carbon and gfo.

 

Grate chamber is upflow for placment of cermedia ceramic balls.

 

Last chamber obviously the return pump chamber. Nice and small for tighter hysteresis for the ATO, and flood mitigation.

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bdevillier19

i built something similar out of a 20 gallon long. i was sick and tired of having to get the filter socks on and off of the drain pipe so i did the same style filter sock holder. i had everything laser cut out of 1/4" smoked acrylic.

 

sump.jpg

 

the sections over the filter socks and the return pump have lids to make things look nicer

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i built something similar out of a 20 gallon long. i was sick and tired of having to get the filter socks on and off of the drain pipe so i did the same style filter sock holder. i had everything laser cut out of 1/4" smoked acrylic.

 

sump.jpg

 

the sections over the filter socks and the return pump have lids to make things look nicer

 

That's the exact design I want to do when I do mine. My will be a 15G probably though.

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bdevillier19

really would like to have something like that made

The acrylic cost me $55, the tank was $20 at petco's DPG sale, and luckily a fellow reefer (who is also a customer of mine at work) did the laser work for free. If you'd like I can send you the files of my drawings so you can find somewhere to cut it for you. Ponoko does laser cutting and I've seen a few people on the forums use it but I'm not sure what they charge.

 

https://www.ponoko.com

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bdevillier19

RK, isn't it awesome? I'll never have anything but this style of filter sock mount. And for those looking into this. I use the BRS socks with the plastic rings. On my holder the upper/larger diameter is 4.25" and the lower/smaller diameter is 3.75"

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RK, isn't it awesome? I'll never have anything but this style of filter sock mount. And for those looking into this. I use the BRS socks with the plastic rings. On my holder the upper/larger diameter is 4.25" and the lower/smaller diameter is 3.75"

It is awesome. I use the BRS socks as well. Now if only I could remember where I put one of my spares

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bdevillier19

The back ground music on you're video

 

The back ground music on you're video lol just realized that's not ur video

Gotcha. But yeah not my video. Lol.

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Nice design but if I never have to hear that song again I'll die a happy man.

 

Its a song about Kate Bush getting wet.

 

I thought it was appropriate for the sump getting wet for the first time.

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Its a song about Kate Bush getting wet. I thought it was appropriate for the sump getting wet for the first time.

 

so much thought put into this sump and soundtrack haha

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