installing return pump with deep sand bed in 'display sump'

[Subliminal]

Hey folks, I am creating a sump which will be a second display, with sand bed, rocks, etc.

I do, however, need to install my return pump, which will be a Sicce 1.5.

Any suggestions on how to install in the 'display sump'?

 

[Troylee]

Leave the sand out of the return chamber and you should be fine… fwiw everything loves to collect in a sump so be ready to clean that sand a lot or it can cause potential issues down the road.

 

[Subliminal]

Leave the sand out of the return chamber and you should be fine… fwiw everything loves to collect in a sump so be ready to clean that sand a lot or it can cause potential issues down the road.

Thanks for the reply.

The other tank will be a 10 gallon frag tank with nothing but lights, maybe a rock, and frag racks.

The 'sump' is a 30g Oceanic cube, which will house the biological filtration, heater, and some inverts...maybe a small fish or two.

Should not be an abundance of anything nasty in there, and I plan to have a fun/solid CUC. I also plan to do ~5g a week water changes.

So, no baffles/chambers currently in the sump. I would need to build something out of acrylic or somesuch.

 

[Troylee]

Got it… you could always put the return pump on a plat form so it sits a couple inches above the substrate to keep it out the impeller.

 

[Subliminal]

Got it… you could always put the return pump on a plat form so it sits a couple inches above the substrate to keep it out the impeller.

I like that idea. Think I’ll have to worry about snails and shrimp and crabs being sucked in?

 

[Troylee]

I like that idea. Think I’ll have to worry about snails and shrimp and crabs being sucked in?

Depends on the pump.. something like a mag drive yeah I’d worry.. something like a ehiem or sicce that’s got a full guard “no”…