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New sump for my 90 gallon


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Slowly picking up equipment. Going to be ordering rock this week .


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Nice, got an RS-300 on my 90. I modified it however. The RS-200 I had on my 75 was a micro bubble mess so on the RS-300 I used 1/4" acrylic and extended the center baffle down 1" from the bottom and I also added a 3rd baffle (over baffle) You will find that at stock, if you ever decide to remove the filter sock micro bubbles will be there and the foam block is a band-aid to that problem. I can now run without the filter socks and a huge skimmer and get 0 bubbles in the display. Also reverse the bulkhead as pictured and cut chunk of 1" pvc to extend from the bulkhead to just below the water level. The sump is very loud from the cascade if you dont do this.

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How do you guys plumb these sumps ? It came with a flexible hose but i would like to use pvc and maybe a couple of gate valves on the drain and return lines.

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You can do whatever you want for plumbing. PVC or that hose. What ever works best for you and that you are comfortable working with. I assume that is a RS-100 ? Depending on how many gadgets you want in the return area, running the return pump external might be something to look into as they dont give you decent space on anything below the RS-200 in the return area.

 

For the drain to the sump, make sure you use a pvc union close to the bulkhead on the sump so you can remove the bulkhead or even remove the sump if need be.

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You may want to remove the foam block. If not you may have to throttle back your return pump to keep its chamber from running dry. I removed my foam block.

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Get a Mega-Flo drain kit. about eighty. to a hundred bucks. I have a very similar setup on a customers tank. works well.

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According to eshopps it holds 20 gallons and is rated for a 100 gallon tank. I needed to have room remaining in the stand for the calcium and biopellet reactors

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It holds 20 gallons but you have to leave room in the sump for display run off if power goes out. So you will be able to have about 7-9 gallons in it. Wait till you get a skimmer and pumps for reactors in there it will be stuffed.

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Maybe I should take it back and get the next size up. I wasn't completely sure which size to get as this is my first tank with a sump. I kind of went off the vendors recommendation.

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