I need some help on designing my simple sump. Mojo this is mainly for you bud!
It is going to be a 180g tank, and so far I am looking at a 58g sump. 42Lx16Wx20T. The sump builder is going to cut the acrylic baffles for me and I will put them in myself. So i need to decide height, and how many baffles.
The sump is only really going to house my return pump, CA pump, skimmer/pump.
I basically just need help designing my baffles. I think I want the water to be 9'' high in the sump. So therefore my baffles should probably be 8'' correct?
Mojo, I think you told me to have 2 baffles after my skimmer. The first one makes the water go under it, and the second one makes the water go over it. I was thinking these should be 2 inches apart? How much overlap should there be between the first second baffle height wise if they are both 8'' tall?
Then the water will travel a long ways to another set of baffles just before my return pump. The water here again will go under first, and then over the last baffle, with 2 inches between again.
Mojo, you told me that the last baffle should be half the height of the first. What was the reasoning behind this? The tank builder wasnt sure of the reasoning... and he told me that he likes to see baffles in sets of 3's and not twos. Is this going to create too much velocity?
I need to figure this out soon, as they are going to start building next week.
Thanks!
It is going to be a 180g tank, and so far I am looking at a 58g sump. 42Lx16Wx20T. The sump builder is going to cut the acrylic baffles for me and I will put them in myself. So i need to decide height, and how many baffles.
The sump is only really going to house my return pump, CA pump, skimmer/pump.
I basically just need help designing my baffles. I think I want the water to be 9'' high in the sump. So therefore my baffles should probably be 8'' correct?
Mojo, I think you told me to have 2 baffles after my skimmer. The first one makes the water go under it, and the second one makes the water go over it. I was thinking these should be 2 inches apart? How much overlap should there be between the first second baffle height wise if they are both 8'' tall?
Then the water will travel a long ways to another set of baffles just before my return pump. The water here again will go under first, and then over the last baffle, with 2 inches between again.
Mojo, you told me that the last baffle should be half the height of the first. What was the reasoning behind this? The tank builder wasnt sure of the reasoning... and he told me that he likes to see baffles in sets of 3's and not twos. Is this going to create too much velocity?
I need to figure this out soon, as they are going to start building next week.
Thanks!