Reef Octopus Recirculating Skimmer with No Sump?

[MeanGreenStompa]

I am considering adding a big, powerful Reef Octopus to my 180 mixed reef that has no sump. I was looking at the recirculating Skimmers and it occurred to me to just use a canister filter intake, perhaps with a sponge on it to prevent large particulate matter entering the system, feeding down onto the floor with an in-line pump externally drawing that water and then pushing it up to the skimmer which would be in a walk in closet, elevated higher than the aquarium, then just let that gravity feed back into the tank.

Considering the Regal 250 EXT and the VarioS 4 pump as the inline external workhorse for it.

Would this work?

 

[paintman]

Thats a great idea! This way you can bubble scrub your tank at the same time. LOL!

 

[MeanGreenStompa]

Thats a great idea! This way you can bubble scrub your tank at the same time. LOL!

I don't understand, this reads like you're being sarcastic and if you are, could you explain why it won't work?

 

[paintman]

You will be returning water to your tank laiden with micro bubbles. No way around it, unless you have the return dump into some kind of filter sock first. But I don't think you want to have a filter sock hanging in your display tank.

Take it from someone who owns an RO 3000 dumping into a sump. I still have to have a sock capture the bubbles so they ddon't get over to the return chamber.

 

[MeanGreenStompa]

ah, I see. Perhaps I could have it return to some kind of chamber and then run down into the tank.