So I Have This Sump Connected To

[Nolapete]

I have this 40 gallon long sump connected to my 40 breeder. The sump was once a trickle filter, but I've removed all the media from it. It has a nice center refugium section. I've attached a pic. What do I need to do to it or have in it.

You can see in the pic where the drip plate is. A small eheim pump was connected to where the black square/dot is to recirculate water through it. The feed from the tank didn't connect there. It evidently dumped into one of the other sections.

I'm confused on if I should bother with the drip plate at all since I don't have bio-balls in it any longer.

Do I need any kind of pre-filter after the end the water is dumped in so that the pump doesn't suck up debris?

Which end should the pump be on returning water to the tank?

I have a 30" stand-alone venturi skimmer. Should I put this in the sump or just pump water to it and have it return to the sump?

The arrows point to where there's a piece of egg-crate under the glass divider.:1zhelp:

 

[Reefscape]

Personaly, i would remove the drip plate, dont see any need for it, use that at your inlet section and fit your skimmer in there if you use one..

What are the heights of the baffles in the tank??

If you want to use a kind of prefilter, then a filter sock on the end on the overflow pipe work would suffice for you.

Due to the current config of the sump baffles, your return pump will go in the right as you look at the picture above, this gives the bubble trap to do its job..

What is the make and model of the skimmer? cant really say much about how to implement this untill i know this..

Niko

 

[Nolapete]

It's just a 40 gallon long tank with glass baffles. That should give you an idea of the height. I can probably retrofit the drip plate with a hole to hold a filter sock and be done with it. I'm glad that I did a salt-free run on it since I'll have to turn the sump around so that end is on the output end. I'll probably just get a piece of acrylic and cut it instead, so that I can still have the drip plate if I switch this filter out to a FW tank.

The skimmer I have can sit outside the sump and be plumbed to return water to it, so I'll just do that. The pump will sit in the same section as the return pump. I'm surprised at how strong the eheim pump I have is. I'll actually have to throttle it down for the overflow to keep up. It barely can now. I have one of the valves off the eheim cansister that isn't working that I can use. Gotta love all the extras you get with aquariums off of craigslist.

 

[Grins]

I'd put the skimmer before the fuge section instead of at the return section.

 

[Nolapete]

Would it be ok to just put the pump that powers the skimmer in that section and have the skimmer return water to it? The skimmer is stand-alone, so it doesn't have to sit in the sump.

 

[Grins]

The issue is that you don't need or necessarily want what is in the fuge to go through the skimmer

 

[Nolapete]

Then it should feed from the end where the filter sock is going to be. Which is where the old drip plate was.

 

[Grins]

Right...just like Niko said up there ^