Having fully contracted the Dreaded Aquarium Disease now, I’m launching into planning an 80-90 gallon custom tank to fill a particular space in my house. I need to do a kitchen remodel first, so the tank is going to wait, but I can start doing the smaller storable pieces now. With the delay, at least I won’t be impatient waiting for the silicone to cure with a tank sitting there.
So — wet/dry sump design. I managed to get a cheap used 29 gallon tank last weekend. Here’s a roughly to scale drawing of what I have in mind to do with it.
The large baffles around the trickle chamber will be glass. The drip tray and egg crate for the trickle chamber will be supported by chunks of 12mm square acrylic rod glued/siliconed into place. The fence in the pump section is to be removable (so I can get heaters in and out from under the trickle chamber), held in place by more acrylic rod.
Is the fence high enough, or too high? I thought it should be higher than the minimum for the return pump to function.
I’m not really worried about the trickle section clogging and causing the intake section to flood. Should I be? I could put in a pass through in that second baffle for if the level gets too high…
So — wet/dry sump design. I managed to get a cheap used 29 gallon tank last weekend. Here’s a roughly to scale drawing of what I have in mind to do with it.
The large baffles around the trickle chamber will be glass. The drip tray and egg crate for the trickle chamber will be supported by chunks of 12mm square acrylic rod glued/siliconed into place. The fence in the pump section is to be removable (so I can get heaters in and out from under the trickle chamber), held in place by more acrylic rod.
Is the fence high enough, or too high? I thought it should be higher than the minimum for the return pump to function.
I’m not really worried about the trickle section clogging and causing the intake section to flood. Should I be? I could put in a pass through in that second baffle for if the level gets too high…