My cheap homemade sump with fuge!

[irvp13]

Nice sump man. I converted a wet dry in a sump /fuge and its no where as clean as yours, specially sealing the rear part on the 2nd and 3rd baffle.

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Yeah for the rear sealing I used a McDonald's straw to apply the silicone lol it's wide so it really gets a good amount into the corners


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[fishman1069]

Looks really good dude! The only question I would have is Why did you put the bubble trap in the middle? I always made sumps with the trap right before the return section

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Well I put the second baffle as the bubble trap and it works well I have done this before and I may put a piece of sponge between the second and first baffles and that also stops bubbles , this is a much larger version Of a sump type I have made before and it worked great , as soon as I fire it up and it's running I will post pics of it running .


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[irvp13]

Yeah for the rear sealing I used a McDonald's straw to apply the silicone lol it's wide so it really gets a good amount into the corners


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I used a pair of chopsticks to spread it but he straw works like an extender, cool!

 

[stooops718]

Great work! I'm trying to figure out a sump option for my 12 gallon Edge. I was going to get the eShopps nano overflow box so wouldn't have to drill the tank. I either have to get a new stand or I was gonna use a 6.6 gallon Fluval Chi as the sump since it would be the largest tank that would fit under my stand. Would that ratio even be beneficial? Another idea I had was to just have the Chi be a refugium macro tank and have the water from there return to the 12 gallon Edge.

 

[1329eheim]

Looks good. Question though. In my homemade sump, the return section only holds about 6 gallons of water. Looks like yours is about the same? That means that if the water volume in my system (About 100 gals total) decreases by 4%, the Eheim will be sucking air and if the volume decreases by 5-6%, it's a disaster unless I'm home to catch it. So I'm thinking of combining the refugium and return pump sections to reduce the margin of error.

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

That may work but I have the reactors returning water right to the return pump section to avoid that issue.