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Old 10/11/2006, 10:15 PM
murraycamp murraycamp is offline
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To all the RDSB masters here, I have a quick question regarding plumbing a RDSB. I have no sump, just a Remora Pro skimmer on a 30 gal. cube.

I am thinking of just running the drain hose from a HOT overflow box down to a 5 gal bucket w/ about 12-14" of sand, putting a sponge on the end of the drain hose for diffusion and then attach it to the rim of the bucket. For the return, I am thinking of just placing a Mag 1.9 on a 4 x 4" piece of eggcrate on the other side of the bucket with a return hose to the tank. I think that would give me about 150 gph over the sand bed. My purposes in planning it this way are to; (1) increase evaporative cooling (hence, no lid on the bucket), (2) avoid having to install bulkheads or mess with traditional plumbing, and (3) limit flooding risk with a siphon overflow. Does anyone see any problems doing it this way?

Thanks in advance.
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