Sump design help, multiple tanks single sump

[zachrabbit15]

Hello
Looking for help suggestion on if what I would like to do will work. Setting up a new Reef tank after about 5yrs away. Closing on new house beginning of next month and the BOSS gave me the ok to have a tank (or two). Main display is a 210gallon semi half round (48" wide x 36" deep at apex x 24" tall). Frag tank is 60 wide x 30" wide x 10" tall. Refugium is a standard marineland reef ready 90gallon. Yes im old school and like big refugiums and slower through flow on all tanks. Also prefer Herbie style overflows for there simplicity and silence. main tank will be roughly 700gph return pump and frag tank and refugium will share the flow from another 700gph pump. My skimmer is a external MRC MR-2 with custom 2" body extension. I have added a couple pics of what Im thinking to have built. Nothing ground breaking or insane, just simple and I think functional. Last is main tank will be in basement family room plumbed through the wall into "my" area is a workshop area in the basement. This is where the heart of the system will be, ie: sump, frag tank, refugium, and filtration.

Thanks for any help or incites.

 

[Fish Fan]

Hello!

My BOSS greenlighted me setting up a 150 gallon, and she doesn't know it yet, but I'm going to plumb in a 40 gallon too. What I plan on telling my wife is that the 40 gallon is attached to the 150, and is a "display refugium", and NOT "another tank???", as she will call it :)

I'm following here to see what others suggest. To me, it's not so much the sump design, it's the plumbing design. You need to make sure that when the power goes out, for example, all the water that drains back is handled by the sump without overflowing the sump.

Good luck with your build!

 

[tbrown]

First thing to make sure - the sump needs to be able to handle the flow from both tanks in case of power failure so be sure to leave enough head space.

 

[zachrabbit15]

First thing to make sure - the sump needs to be able to handle the flow from both tanks in case of power failure so be sure to leave enough head space.

Thanks, defiantly haven't thought about that. I cant go much taller on the sump due to tank stand height but can go wider and longer. Length vs material thickness vs cost gets to be the next issue.