Included diagram should hopefully give a good sense of what I’m asking. Do people prefer sumps that dump water directly to the mechanical filtration or should they have some sort of spillover “staging area”? I’m assuming the spillover staging area might keep things a little quieter, right? Also, since I want to run a Reef Factory Smart Roller (only reason I drew filter socks were because they’re more intuitive) and that only has one port in, a staging area would allow a bunch of drains to be merged into one, right?
I’m new to sumps (currently an AIO guy) but given that my planned build is a weird size, I’d like to DIY a sump from scratch for it, and Knowing details like this makes a big difference.