[nacho245]

Hi everyone, well Im from Mexico, so my english its no perfect, so sorry for missunderstandings.
I have a 1.20 X 50 X30 aquarium, that is the one i want to transform to a sump. Well, as you know here in Mexico all the people are lazy. And as you know here in Mexico all the people are lazy, so if I say to a person to do the sump for me, it would probably be very incomplete and of bad quality.
So i thought, why dont i make the design if he builds it just as my plans.
I leave here a first plan of the sump and some specifications:
#1 chamber= Hospital / refuge tank
#2 chamber= the return pump
#3 chamber= It will have miracle Mud, and I dont remember the name right now, but is that good algae, sorry jeje.
#4 Chamber= it will have sponges to clean the water
#5 chamber= my turboflotor protein skimmer

Well, thats all, iplease take a look at it and all recommendations would be very helpfull. Thanks a lot

[nacho245]

please need help and suggestions

[ianizaguirre]

umm ok first thing it cant be a hospital cuz that would be a quarantine tank and those types of tanks cant be connected to the main display cuz then the medicine would end up going to all your other inhabitants so that would just be pointless so you just cant do a hopital unless you get another small tank that would not be connected to your main tank. and ok secound your sections one and three would be the same thing so just take out section three and make section one longer or wider and move section one to were section two is so water can flow through it and since that would be a refugium you would have to put like a 13 watt light on top to grow "chaetomorphia" which is what a refugium is for and you could put the mircle mud in that same section as a substrate. after all that you should build a bubble trap before your return pump so no bubble get into your display and dont fill up the sump all the way so theres room for water when a power outage occurs to prevent a flood so then after ALL that just get a good overflow like a "Lifes reefs overflow" which would prevent floods O and dont use pvc pipes but use tubes if you want to reduce the noisse the sump is going to make. after all that said i think your good.

[nacho245]

thanks a lot for replying.
Well, first, I said it was an hospital tank because i could cut the flood of the water in that chamber, with the ball valve. Do you recommend me to leave it like these? or improve the design. And since this is my first sump, I have no idea how to make a bubble trap. So any other help would be excellent, thankyou ianizaguirre

[ianizaguirre]

umm ok this helped me alot just look at this

YouTube - Reef Tank D.I.Y. Sump part 1

AND

YouTube - Reef Tank D.I.Y. Sump part 2

.... Now you dont have to do everything it says as an example DRILL your tank but this would explane some things and give you a better idea.

[nacho245]

now i understand, thanks a lot

[ianizaguirre]

no problem