Please share with me your expertice/advise on my thought's for how I would like to plumb my tank/sump. I call it a closed/open loop. Here is what I am thinking:
I have a 25 gallon tank w/ an 18gal sump/refuge. I currently am running 2 MaxiJet 1200's in my tank with no sump hooked up yet. I was looking for a fairly low cost simple system to provide flow for the tank from the sump and remove the powerheads. I would like to use a single HOT overflow w/ 1" out to the sump. From the return chamber I would like to use a pump directly up to a SCWD and split to both sides of the tank for return.
My question's are:
1. is this a good design? Can you see problems? What should change to be better?
2. What type of pump should I use for good flow into the tank? I was thinking a MagDrive 9.5
3. How low should I plumb the return lines into the tank? At about the same height as a powerhead or lowere on one side?
4. Any thing else? Is this just insane newbie pipe dreams?
Thanks in advance,
Josh
I have a 25 gallon tank w/ an 18gal sump/refuge. I currently am running 2 MaxiJet 1200's in my tank with no sump hooked up yet. I was looking for a fairly low cost simple system to provide flow for the tank from the sump and remove the powerheads. I would like to use a single HOT overflow w/ 1" out to the sump. From the return chamber I would like to use a pump directly up to a SCWD and split to both sides of the tank for return.
My question's are:
1. is this a good design? Can you see problems? What should change to be better?
2. What type of pump should I use for good flow into the tank? I was thinking a MagDrive 9.5
3. How low should I plumb the return lines into the tank? At about the same height as a powerhead or lowere on one side?
4. Any thing else? Is this just insane newbie pipe dreams?
Thanks in advance,
Josh