donald altman
11/12/2006, 05:52 PM
I am making a DIY cheap and easy refugium for under my 100 gallon.
I am going with a 72 quart container and plan to use a calfo style drain (two 1.5 inch drain lines) using flex down into the rubbermaid container. I found a nifty bread loaf tupperware that is just about 2 inches lower then the container. I plan to run the drain flex down into the breadloaf tupperware that will be in the corner of the rubbermaid to act as a bubble trap. I have a quiet one 3000 pump that will pump 1 inch flex with a T leading to two seperate lockline return nozzles. I am unsure what to do with the pump. It is submersible and I plan have a 4 or 5 inch dsb with chaeto. (I already have a 75 watt 6500k LOA lamp ready) This is where I am stuck I am not sure if I need to find anouther container to place inside my "ghetto fuge" to place the return pump into or if merely having it on a shelf above the sand will be suffecient. I could use eggcrate to build a shelf and to keep cheato from entering into the return area.. or I could use say a trashcan or simular tupperware that the water would have to flow ever the top and into to reach the return pump.
If I do the later what will the relationship of the hieght of the drain compartment (breadloaf container) be in relationship to the (trashcan) return pump compartment.
I am going with a 72 quart container and plan to use a calfo style drain (two 1.5 inch drain lines) using flex down into the rubbermaid container. I found a nifty bread loaf tupperware that is just about 2 inches lower then the container. I plan to run the drain flex down into the breadloaf tupperware that will be in the corner of the rubbermaid to act as a bubble trap. I have a quiet one 3000 pump that will pump 1 inch flex with a T leading to two seperate lockline return nozzles. I am unsure what to do with the pump. It is submersible and I plan have a 4 or 5 inch dsb with chaeto. (I already have a 75 watt 6500k LOA lamp ready) This is where I am stuck I am not sure if I need to find anouther container to place inside my "ghetto fuge" to place the return pump into or if merely having it on a shelf above the sand will be suffecient. I could use eggcrate to build a shelf and to keep cheato from entering into the return area.. or I could use say a trashcan or simular tupperware that the water would have to flow ever the top and into to reach the return pump.
If I do the later what will the relationship of the hieght of the drain compartment (breadloaf container) be in relationship to the (trashcan) return pump compartment.