sump and plumbing question

[LowDime]

I am working on setting up my sump and what nots. i have a 80 low boy with a 24" cube sump with 4 sections. the main section is going to house my filter roller, i was thinking about turning the original filter sock area into a fuge area. and then i have the section behind the filter roller that feeds the return pump area. My question is would the fuge be better suited in the larger 2nd area that feeds into the return chamber or would it work in an area that is 7x6 or so dimensionally.

My next question is on plumbing all of this. The return pump area is very small and tight in this sump so i can't run 2 pumps or even a larger pump. I am currently running a small sdc 3 iirc. So i was thinking about using a manifold on my drain to feed a small amount of water into the fuge. ( never succesfully had one.) Or so i run a bigger pump and manifold off that to feed the fuge and uv light.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

i was thinking about using a manifold on my drain to feed a small amount of water into the fuge

For what purpose?
I think using the larger chamber for the fuge is a better idea... the filter sock area will get too much flow, IMO

 

[LowDime]

My thinking that is because I won’t have anything in that area since the main drain goes straight to the roller

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I don't think I follow...
The water will follow the path (1 -> 2 ->3 -> 4) so every chamber gets flow.

 

[LowDime]

Normally yes but my tank only has 1 drain so it has to go directly to the roller in section 2

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Normally yes but my tank only has 1 drain so it has to go directly to the roller in section 2

You're brave...

 

[LowDime]

How come ??

 

[LowDime]

'm open for suggestions. i was constantly fighting detritus in the bottom of chamber 1 because I didn't have enough water volume from a single durso style drain to push the water up over the lip and through the filter sock. so all the waste would just gather in the bottom and then spill over to chamber 2. I could only run the return pump at 50% or it would constantly gurgle and make a ton of noise

 

[Pntbll687]

Is that an eshopps sump?

 

[LowDime]

Yes it is

 

[Pntbll687]

Yes it is

Any more pictures?

You need to follow how the water flows with those sumps and plan accordingly.

The easiest way to integrate that roller is going to run it off the return pump with a manifold, or a small utility pump.

DO NOT plumb a single drain to that roller. That's just asking for a problem, and if the roller doesn't advance fast enough every time, you'll get gurgles coming from the drain all the time.

 

[LowDime]

i changed the drains over to a herbie style from a single but still only have 1 main and then an emergency. The problem is that the sumps return pump chamber will not fit a pump that is big enough to move that much water through a manifold to the filter roller and back to the tank. I currently have the Sicce Syncra SDC 3.0 and it basically takes up the entire return pump section

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

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i changed the drains over to a herbie style from a single but still only have 1 main and then an emergency. The problem is that the sumps return pump chamber will not fit a pump that is big enough to move that much water through a manifold to the filter roller and back to the tank. I currently have the Sicce Syncra SDC 3.0 and it basically takes up the entire return pump section

Does the filter roller HAVE to be fed by the drain? Why not just add a second pump in the same chamber as the roller... kind of like how a skimmer works?

 

[LowDime]

it can be fed with a pump I believe everything i have found says its best to feed from the drain so that all the waste goes straight to it, Like it would through a sock

 

[bigfish3]

I am about to install a Red Sea 350 roller in my sump. It will be fed directly from the drain. I’m not going through the assache of trying to get the emergency overflow plumbed to it just yet.

Still trying to figure out a Refugium. The space for a Refugium is currently holding live rock, and some bio blocks for the copepods.