Greetings,
I am designing my basement sump and am looking for feedback from more experienced hobbyists. This is the current design:
The entire sump will be inside the 120 gallon tank. The 2 herbie siphon drains and the larger emergency drain will come down from the floor above. They will drain into a 20 gallon tank sitting inside the 120g. The 20g will overflow into the 120g keeping a constant water height for a skimmer to be added. The return pump will sit inside a smaller (and notably shorter) tank on the right of yet to be determined size. The stable sump water height will be ~12" inches in the 120g giving me a sump volume of ~60g with 60g of spare room if the display tank back siphons (power outage + siphon break plugged for whatever reason). Finally, I will be able to drain ~25g from the system without having to turn off the pump for water changes which helps for a goal of mine to do weekly smaller changes easily.
Question: How would you add a refugium inside the 120g? Could it be as simple as letting the rest of the 120g be the refugium chamber only lighted in the center? If I did this, would it make sense to block the light from getting to either of the tanks on the sides?
Second question: Is it silly to do this to avoid making baffles and siliconing them in? Am I missing something in general?
Thank you!
-Stephen
I am designing my basement sump and am looking for feedback from more experienced hobbyists. This is the current design:
The entire sump will be inside the 120 gallon tank. The 2 herbie siphon drains and the larger emergency drain will come down from the floor above. They will drain into a 20 gallon tank sitting inside the 120g. The 20g will overflow into the 120g keeping a constant water height for a skimmer to be added. The return pump will sit inside a smaller (and notably shorter) tank on the right of yet to be determined size. The stable sump water height will be ~12" inches in the 120g giving me a sump volume of ~60g with 60g of spare room if the display tank back siphons (power outage + siphon break plugged for whatever reason). Finally, I will be able to drain ~25g from the system without having to turn off the pump for water changes which helps for a goal of mine to do weekly smaller changes easily.
Question: How would you add a refugium inside the 120g? Could it be as simple as letting the rest of the 120g be the refugium chamber only lighted in the center? If I did this, would it make sense to block the light from getting to either of the tanks on the sides?
Second question: Is it silly to do this to avoid making baffles and siliconing them in? Am I missing something in general?
Thank you!
-Stephen