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Just when I thought I researched overflows to death I come across yet another application where I feel like "hhmmmmm I'm not sure" so I've come to you folks again to help me decide
Over the past 6 months (or longer) I've been running a remote fuge that gravity feeds into my sump but this was an experiment so I used a little dinky acrylic 6g sump. Well now I'm a believer, I love my remote fuge and I get to run separate chambers within for different types of algae & what not. This also makes for a nice space for extra CUC; I have tons & tons of bristle worms, limpets, pods, micro stars, micro snails (not proper name, but they're super tiny) which are all self sustaining populations due to the isolated environment and ultra low flow rate.
Now is the time to build something a little bigger, I have a 12g sump this time that is more shallow and runs a single divider down the middle so maybe throw pretty macro on one side, chaeto on the other or use one side to hold outgoing or incoming corals.
Question is how should I do the overflow? on the old one I just drilled the side & stuck an L facing up.
This time I'd like to make it cleaner and more reliable, DT shall have a full fledged Bean Animal in the Reef Savvy Ghost configuration. I realized that this is a bit much and overkill on something that's not only small but will also be hidden so I'm not as critical on appearance or noise.
Should I:
A- drill a hole & throw a bulky box around it? (sort of like glassholes)
B- get an even bulkier overflow box & put 2 L's inside for redundancy?
C- build a slim 1" thick overflow box, drill & install 2 bulkheads and attach an external durso?
I know this is a bit long for a simple fuge but I thought I'd get all my thoughts out first so you have all the details when making a recommendation
Thanks for letting me borrow your brains...
Over the past 6 months (or longer) I've been running a remote fuge that gravity feeds into my sump but this was an experiment so I used a little dinky acrylic 6g sump. Well now I'm a believer, I love my remote fuge and I get to run separate chambers within for different types of algae & what not. This also makes for a nice space for extra CUC; I have tons & tons of bristle worms, limpets, pods, micro stars, micro snails (not proper name, but they're super tiny) which are all self sustaining populations due to the isolated environment and ultra low flow rate.
Now is the time to build something a little bigger, I have a 12g sump this time that is more shallow and runs a single divider down the middle so maybe throw pretty macro on one side, chaeto on the other or use one side to hold outgoing or incoming corals.
Question is how should I do the overflow? on the old one I just drilled the side & stuck an L facing up.
This time I'd like to make it cleaner and more reliable, DT shall have a full fledged Bean Animal in the Reef Savvy Ghost configuration. I realized that this is a bit much and overkill on something that's not only small but will also be hidden so I'm not as critical on appearance or noise.
Should I:
A- drill a hole & throw a bulky box around it? (sort of like glassholes)
B- get an even bulkier overflow box & put 2 L's inside for redundancy?
C- build a slim 1" thick overflow box, drill & install 2 bulkheads and attach an external durso?
I know this is a bit long for a simple fuge but I thought I'd get all my thoughts out first so you have all the details when making a recommendation
Thanks for letting me borrow your brains...