chastjw71
New Member
Hello Everyone,
I'm in the process of building my first large tank, First my quick background, Ive been in this wonderful hobby for several years, had several tanks, from FOWLR to full reefs, so far the largest I've had was a 4ft 150G, but a leak made me break that down in a hurry, live rock, corals and fish are residing in multiple tanks now, waiting for they're future large home. So I'm building well having it professionally built, the tank and stand are done, now trying to design the sump, but my design keeps changing and changing LOL, tank is 72X30X31 290G peninsula tank. My questions are is roughly how much evaporation can I expect? Reason I'm asking is trying to figure out how large my ATO container will need to be, I want to incorprate an all in one sump, containing skimmer chamber, refugium, return, top off etc so planning sizes for whole thing. I'd like to make the refugium as large as possible. I have room under stand for 68X20X40 (very tall stand) any similar sumps out there? or better ideas?? I was also thinking of incorporating my cal, alk, and mag supplement holding chamber into the end of the sump for dosing pump suction, sump will be acrylic, but also thinking maybe separate container for these, even though I'm 99% sure they won't leak into sump being professionally made. Any and all ideas, answers, and especially reason why I should maybe do things differently will be greatly appreciated.
I'm in the process of building my first large tank, First my quick background, Ive been in this wonderful hobby for several years, had several tanks, from FOWLR to full reefs, so far the largest I've had was a 4ft 150G, but a leak made me break that down in a hurry, live rock, corals and fish are residing in multiple tanks now, waiting for they're future large home. So I'm building well having it professionally built, the tank and stand are done, now trying to design the sump, but my design keeps changing and changing LOL, tank is 72X30X31 290G peninsula tank. My questions are is roughly how much evaporation can I expect? Reason I'm asking is trying to figure out how large my ATO container will need to be, I want to incorprate an all in one sump, containing skimmer chamber, refugium, return, top off etc so planning sizes for whole thing. I'd like to make the refugium as large as possible. I have room under stand for 68X20X40 (very tall stand) any similar sumps out there? or better ideas?? I was also thinking of incorporating my cal, alk, and mag supplement holding chamber into the end of the sump for dosing pump suction, sump will be acrylic, but also thinking maybe separate container for these, even though I'm 99% sure they won't leak into sump being professionally made. Any and all ideas, answers, and especially reason why I should maybe do things differently will be greatly appreciated.
