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I built a stand for my 29g tank and built a 20g 3stage sump with room for built in refugium. I can take more pictures or explain what's going on if anyone is interested.
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So I cut a 1" hole in the tank and added an in tank fine cone filter so nothing gets sucked in, it is fed down the pvc tubing via gravity and falls into a top chamber that hold filter floss, bio balls and live rock, it then gets filtered down into the bottom chamber inside the big tub, inside that chamber the water is pushed up through live sand, aragonite, crushed shells and more bio balls before being filtered out through holes I punched in the top of the chamber and the water flows out into the external third chamber which is stocked full of live rock, filter floss a powerhead and a heater, I then have a 1200gph pump pushing the water back up to the tank where it falls in front of a powerhead and gets pushed to a third powerhead. I plan on attaching a ATO and drip system into the return line going into the tank to it gets mixed nicely as it reaches the DT, any questions ask away I am happy to answer them thanks for the nice comment! Happy reefing!Interesting DIY build. Maybe a bit of explanation would be helpful. It looks pretty creative.
Thanks Ron! and yeah it was very inexpensive compared to prebuilt sump systems and no this isn't my first tank I had a 55g FOWLR and a 20g FOWLR in the past, this time around I am going to do a 29g reef with the sump I have 59g of water and plan to add a 10g QTOK, now that's even more cool and more creative than I thought!
Now I see you just joined R2R, but this can't be your first tank. It had to take some knowledge of what you were doing to set that system up. It's a great design and I assume it's rather inexpensive. Good job.