Tonyscoots84's 80 gallon deepblue rimless tank upgrade

[robscool]

Here's an example of a 29g sump I built for my 75. I wanted to have a larger refugium, so i opted for this design. Never had an issue with micro bubbles in the DT.

 

[lnevo]

+1 on combining overflow and skimmer. That 3 inches for the overflow is wasted and can go to your fuge section, plus one less baffle.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

better russ

 

[Tonyscoots84]

thanks rob, inevo and mr. russ

 

[masterswimmer]

Getting better T. I would take another three inches from the skimmer chamber and put that into the fuge as well. No reason to have an excessive space 15" in the overflow chamber. 12" should work just fine. You'll benefit more with that space in the fuge.

 

[jaa1456]

better russ

That's what I said to do, where's my props lol. Good luck with everything.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

should be it. Thanks jaa and russ

 

[masterswimmer]

Now we're rocking. That looks super.

And as for you Jaa, I'm going to put myself out on a limb here, but I think Tony was missing a question mark at the end of his statement, which would have made it a question, asking me if the new diagram was 'better Russ?'.

R

 

[strgazr27]

its a reef octopus 2000 sro space saver needs 6" of water. made the changes

thanks jaa, russ and fishman

Holy Overskim Batman! That's a LOT of skimmer for that setup lol.

 

[strgazr27]

Tony this is a 40B sump. Drain is split, one side to overflow/skimmer on the left, Fuge on the right. Middle return. And an XS200 RO.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Hey bobby im gonna be upgrading to the 3000 eventually...

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Merry xmas to me. part 1 of 2 of my xmas gift to myself

Thankyou russ @ saltwatercritters.com. I ordered on friday received it today :biggrin:

 

[PeteTheGreek89]

nice! my stuff should all be here this week too!!

 

[jaa1456]

You can never have to big of a skimmer lol. I didn't think your skimmer was that big. I have the xs200 but my new tank isn't up and running yet.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

yea its awesome pete getting new stuff for a new tank or old :biggrin:

jaa yea its pretty big even with the space saving design.. the 3000 is 12.5x11

so this is the next set of measurements i have for the sump for future upgrade of skimmer :scratch:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

going to be hooking up the mp40s on the cube tom. I think i need to make some back up water just incase :lol2:

 

[robscool]

Just noticed you live in Jackson- good stuff. Grew up in Howell and worked at GA for 8 years as a kid.

 

[PeteTheGreek89]

It's for my new 90gal build!

Your putting two mp40's??! I was thinking about getting two also but everyone's saying I dnt red that much but I want! Lol and also what kind if rocks are you useing?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Changed out phosban and added carbon reactor with 1 n 1/2 cups to tank. Will be taking out mp10's today n hookin up mp40's today as well

Yea pete thats what im doing but ill prob put em on the back of the tank one higher then the other. The rock is from reefrocks.net

 

[PeteTheGreek89]

i was looking at that site for rocks, how are you going about ur cycle process with that rock?