DT, display fuge, sump set-up

[jgraz]

My wife has given me her blessing and I am now in the planning stages of a 75gal build. I intend to also have a display fuge with all the bells and whistles tied into the system. My intentions are to run it as follows:
Instead of buying a reef ready tank it is my intention to drill I want to drill the 75 for dual overflows. One overflow will feed to my sump located below the display. The other overflow will feed directly to a 20gal and be a display fuge located approximatly 3'-4' away. The 20gal is already outfitted with a glassholes super nano w/teeth overflow and a 1/2" return. I figured the DT will overflow through the 1/2" return and then overflow to the sump located below the display. Then all water will return to DT. Is my planning sound? Will this work? Will the 20gal be able to handle the flow as equipped, or should I add a bigger return and overflow to it? the overflow currently installed is rated at 300gph. Any feedback is welcomed. Thanks in advance for everything.
John

 

[irvp13]

I think it should work. My only concern is that the flow might be too strong for the fuge.

 

[James404]

I think a better option would be to run both overflows into your sump and then Tee off you return pump to the fuge with a ball valve to control flow.

 

[jgraz]

Actually after giving this some thought the overflows for the 75 would be too much for the considerably smaller overflow already in the 20H.

As far as tee'ing off return I really want water entering the fuge that has not yet seen the skimmer. Another thought I Had was to let all water to enter sump and put a seperate pump in the overflow section to get water to the fuge then overflow back to the sump into a bubble trap. Or as suggested by someone on a different site use two different size overflows in the 75. A larger one to feed sump and a smaller one to feed fuge. Then have the fuge overflow to the sump.

 

[MattyO]

As long as ur ok with the detritus getting into the fuge ur most recent plan should be fine. In my own fuge I have it tee'd from the return to save the pump a little but also make sure detritus doesn't get into the fuge (tho some want that)

 

[nuch]

30 gallon fuge gravity feeding my 75 gallon sump.

 

[fishman1069]

I had a 75 gal DT and a 30 display fuge. What I did was split my return outta my sump and had the fuge drain into the dt. The biggest problem was controlling the bubbles going onto the dt. It worked great! Within 2 months my trates and phos were undetectable and the macros grew like crazy HTH

 

[tomtoothdoc]

i have the 200g dt drains into a filtersock and skimmer section of the 75g sump and then a separate pump is located after the skimmer section as a return to the 55g show fuge which then drains back to the return section(to the dt) of the sump. that way all the "waste" from the dt gets filtered and skimmed without dumping the detritus into the fuge and the pods from the fuge don't get skimmed before going to the dt. i also have an algae tank hooked up to the sump with the same schematic as the fuge.
also using separate pumps each to the fuge and the algae tank let me shut any of them down independently of each other for maintenance, etc.

 

[jgraz]

Thanks everyone. This has helped greatly. Now all I need to do is decide on what tank I'm actually gonna do. I pretty close to talking my wife into a marineland 200gal deep dimension tank

 

[tomtoothdoc]

that's the tank i have....with a custom overflow (not the stock corner ones) and 3 sided starfire. highly recommended.

 

[jgraz]

It didn't even register that you have same size. Any pics that can help convince my wife. I so want this tank, even though I might take a while to save up the dough for it.

 

[tomtoothdoc]

It didn't even register that you have same size. Any pics that can help convince my wife. I so want this tank, even though I might take a while to save up the dough for it.

here are some old pics....a year before the big crash. lost all but one of the sps and most of the other corals. only a handleful of fish had survived.
post #43 has a pic of the show fuge (3rd pic) and the fts.

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum...8-some-new-acquisitions-frag-tank-pics-5.html