I have a big custom sump for my 300G DT from Advanced Acrylics (66x24x18, ~ 50G net water volume) that is 5 years old. I've really liked it and it has served me well, but it was made before the fancy PVC hybrid sumps became popular (at least popular to me). After seeing some gorgeous sumps online the past couple months, I decided to upgrade. I've been working with the owner of Advanced Acrylics, John, to design an awesome new sump and it'll be here in a couple months. I went with gray PVC/Acrylic as the major color with lots of orange highlights, accessories, etc. While I wait for it to arrive (and figure out how to explain that giant box to my wife), I decided to start on the plumbing.
Here are three pics of what my sump looked like this morning. I did all the plumbing myself years ago when I first installed the sump. I never liked the white PVC or the nasty job I did with priming and cementing the fittings.
After doing about 4 plumbing orders from BRS (because I forgot stuff and made some mistakes), I finished pre-assembling plumbing last week. I installed it this morning. Here are the new plumbing photos. (BTW, that lighted tank in the sump is my attempt at a "display refugium". It has a couple skunk clowns, two big RBTAs, 2 baby engineer gobies who are too small for the DT right now, and a few snails and small hermits.)
I used several unions this time to give me flexibility in the future---and to make sure I can adjust things easily for the new sump.
I also put George Fischer check valves on the top of each return pump as an upgrade. I really like the look of the new plumbing and like that its color scheme is the opposite of what the sump will be.
I'll post more when the new sump comes in and will update my general build thread with everything then too. I can't wait for the new sump!
Here are three pics of what my sump looked like this morning. I did all the plumbing myself years ago when I first installed the sump. I never liked the white PVC or the nasty job I did with priming and cementing the fittings.
After doing about 4 plumbing orders from BRS (because I forgot stuff and made some mistakes), I finished pre-assembling plumbing last week. I installed it this morning. Here are the new plumbing photos. (BTW, that lighted tank in the sump is my attempt at a "display refugium". It has a couple skunk clowns, two big RBTAs, 2 baby engineer gobies who are too small for the DT right now, and a few snails and small hermits.)
I used several unions this time to give me flexibility in the future---and to make sure I can adjust things easily for the new sump.
I also put George Fischer check valves on the top of each return pump as an upgrade. I really like the look of the new plumbing and like that its color scheme is the opposite of what the sump will be.
I'll post more when the new sump comes in and will update my general build thread with everything then too. I can't wait for the new sump!