Mega-Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover Replaces Skimmer, Refugium, part 1-4

Here is a super easy DIY nano tank that can easily be made at an acrylic or glass shop. You would want at least a 13 watt bulb no matter how small the nano:

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That's a really neat idea.....too bad I couldn't build that on my already established tank. But if I ever set up a Nano, that's definitely the route I would be taking.
 
Hey SM - I am going to start building a turf scrubber and was wondering if I can run some building questions by you?

Since I do not have a sump, I will be building a bucket version with a return back into the main tank. What pump - in gph - would you suggest for the line in to the bucket? And what about the return? Because of the fact that the return pump is lower than the main tank, I would only assume the return pump would be more powerful than the pump in?

I just want to make sure the rate at which the return line pumps water back into the display tank doesn't leave the bucket empty.
 
This thread is a long thread to read up on and am I understanding it correct, were its title is "Mega-Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover Replaces Skimmer, Refugium, part 1-4" and im to assume it means that a skimmer or refugium would no longer be needed if members were to follow up on this technic of yours (SantaMonica)?

What I always thought or knew of using removal compounds materials is they were always a temporary means of reducing many problems that can go on within a reef system, that the one true method to stabilize finer water conditions are within water changes a lone.

Buddy
 
mlefessler said:
Hey SM - I am going to start building a turf scrubber and was wondering if I can run some building questions by you?

Since I do not have a sump, I will be building a bucket version with a return back into the main tank. What pump - in gph - would you suggest for the line in to the bucket? And what about the return? Because of the fact that the return pump is lower than the main tank, I would only assume the return pump would be more powerful than the pump in?

I just want to make sure the rate at which the return line pumps water back into the display tank doesn't leave the bucket empty.
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You wouldn't want to run a pump in both directions, that would be almost impossible to get the flow rates matching. If the bucket is below the main tank. you could run the screen with water from an overflow, you would just want a second outlet or something for safety, then just use a pump to pump it back up to the tank, like in the pic SM posted above. Or vice versa, if you can somehow get the bucket above the tank level, have a pump in the tank driving the scrubber and just let it drain from the bucket back into the tank.
 
I wish I could do that, but I do not have an overflow, unless there's a way to make an overflow in an already existing tank.
 
What size is the tank? There are HOB overflow options for non-drilled tanks.
 
The tank is a 75-gallon. I should probably do a little research as far as DIY overflows go, huh?
 
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