Share your under tank filtration

gettaReef · Aug 5, 2016

nbagnardi said:
Here's the belly of a Red Sea reefer 450 and how I have it setup. I did have a reef octopus space saving biopellet reactor down there but took it out. Now it's just my NYOS skimmer and a couple bio pure plates. I have a large UV on it as well, lost my entire livestock to ich before hope this helps ya

Very nice system, corals look healthy, happy and bright! Do you have all the water being returned via Vectra pump from your sump to display go through the UV sterilizer? I thought UV requires a slow flow rate? I'm asking bc I just recently purchased a Emperor Aquatics 25watt UV sterilizer for my 93gal system and am looking/researching ideas on how to plumb it

s2nhle · Aug 5, 2016

Wow, very awesome.

nbagnardi · Aug 5, 2016

gettaReef said:
Very nice system, corals look healthy, happy and bright! Do you have all the water being returned via Vectra pump from your sump to display go through the UV sterilizer? I thought UV requires a slow flow rate? I'm asking bc I just recently purchased a Emperor Aquatics 25watt UV sterilizer for my 93gal system and am looking/researching ideas on how to plumb it

yeah, but this is a 57 watt so it has a bigger, stronger bulb which requires less contact time. its dialed down enough to be effective but still provide a decent turnover. i was going to buy a smaller unit myself cause lets face it... they're not cheap! but did some research and decided to buy once instead of twice. you can always plumb a ball valve to get the flow rate you need too. theres tons of build pics and threads on here and the interweb

jd371 · Aug 5, 2016

This is under my 75gal. There's a 20gal sump, 7gal ATO storage container, dosing pump, media reactor and UV tucked in there.

scottbapilot · Aug 5, 2016

Can you please come plumb mine, looks great!

badbowtie12 · Aug 5, 2016

This is the sump under my 150 Gallon Mixed Reef.

s2nhle · Aug 5, 2016

very clean system.

Reefmon · Aug 5, 2016

Joshky said:
I'll play since I have an updated photo of my sump, not nearly as impressive as most of yours. Shelf is temporary, just there until I find time to do some of the projects I have in mind to make the sump area better.

Sorry, it's dreadfully boring.

Oh yea! So dreadful [emoji52]...

Mike Russ · Aug 6, 2016

nyfishkid87 said:
Everything is automated for me.
bubble king cleans up, Ghl handles the dosing of the elements, apex controls it all. I only touch my sump once twice a week to change socks, and clean skimmer. I get to enjoy my corals and fish. Feels so good good goody lol

Man..that's sweet, is that a uv sterilizer on the end? What kind is it?

Futuretotm · Aug 6, 2016

@badbowtie12
Trying to learn/plan
Say that this is how the water flows in your sump??
There are a few question marks i.e. What is the point of that empty space @ F?

Thanks

nyfishkid87 · Aug 6, 2016

Mike Russ said:
Man..that's sweet, is that a uv sterilizer on the end? What kind is it?

Thank you very much. Yes it's a uv. It's called pondmaster 40 watt uv. Works wonders. My initial buy was emperor aquatics then aqua uv, but the both were too big for my stand lol. I settled with these, and no regrets so far.

arodmcinco · Aug 6, 2016

nyfishkid87 · Aug 6, 2016

arodmcinco said:

Awesome. I love it. Drooling over here lol.

arodmcinco · Aug 8, 2016

Took some better pics

s2nhle · Aug 8, 2016

Wow, very awesome. Red and white.

Steve Tobias · Aug 8, 2016

Here is my sump. I have room left underneath and have since added a brs GFO and carbon reactor. The calcium reactor (still not installed sits next to the stand.