Sump question

[corey.nolta]

I have a quick question regarding sumps, as I am new to them. My sump has been up and running for a few days now. I was thinking about tweaking my fuge chamber. Can I move my live rock into the same chamber as my skimmer? What I was thinking about doing, was moving the rock into the skimmer chamber to make room for a three tiered rack and basically have my fuge be more of a "grow out" chamber. Yay, nay?
Thanks!!

(I've been told the baffles are high - not my design, how I bought it - but I have done a power loss test several times, and there is plenty of room to hold the water that drains from the DT)

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

As long as the rock is clean and doesn't damage the skimmer, it should work. However, you typically would allow your macroalgae to have a first crack at cleaning up the water before skimming. The just the traditional way, but certainly not the only way.

 

[corey.nolta]

How big of a difference does that make? I could probably switch the fuge and skimmer pretty easily.

 

[bobman]

personally I always have the skimmer first so you dont skim all your pods that float down stream of the fuge. Istead of hitting the skimmer they go up the pump and into the tank.

 

[bobman]

By the way nice work on the skimmer stand

 

[corey.nolta]

Eggcrate does wonders! I'd really like to take advantage of having a nice led lighting unit above the sump to possibly grow some frags out

 

[bobman]

Ok so what you are askinf is if you can just toss to rocks in with the skimmer so you can add maybe some egg crate to rock compartment for frags? If so sure it would work you could also add some to the side with the macro as well as it seem you might have to much rock for the skimmer compartment.

Dont worry about the baffles being to high I like it that way as long as it dont over flow when you cut the pumps off. As you have done just raise the skimmer. Honestly I see other peoples sumps and think to myself where the water. If you are going to filter water it takes water lol.