Thinking of upgrading from a crammed 55g sump to a 75.

[eagle9252]

I had designed another 55 and then decided to go to the 75.

Does this LQQK like it will work? I’m running a BA drain system. I did not want a long horizontal run and have read that the BA does not do well. So I’m thinking of moving them from draining in the right side of the old 55 and then in the right side of the middle area.

Will there be enough turbulence to churn the water with just the 2 drains 1” under water? It will then flow to the left and through 2 filter socks. It will dump in the sump close to the PS and then flow to the right and out through the external pump. Then I will have a spray bar in the fuge area pointing to the left to create some movement to the left and up and over to the right. The spray bar will get its water from the external pump.

My current sump flows right to left with the sump in the middle.

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Updated 55 drawing.

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New 75g design.

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[eagle9252]

<span style="font-family: Calibri"><span style="font-size: 13px">My other thought was to allow space in the fuge area for some frags or fish. I&#8217;m also trying to reduce some heat as I have 3 pumps in the sump. 1 for the return, 1 for the PS and 1 for the reactors.</span></span>

 

[snowmansnow]

from my research... a well done BA is a great overflow...

that being said..

unless it is making a REAL impact on your system you can ditch the fuge are IMO and use it for more space.

B

 

[mufret]

Just a heads up. That float switch will work much better if it's INSIDE the sump! :dance:

 

[rdnelson]

mufret;798392 wrote: Just a heads up. That float switch will work much better if it's INSIDE the sump! :dance:

I second that. hehehehe

 

[eagle9252]

SnowManSnow;798378 wrote: from my research... a well done BA is a great overflow...

that being said..

unless it is making a REAL impact on your system you can ditch the fuge are IMO and use it for more space.

B

<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">did I miss something???</span></span>
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<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">the fuge and Bean Animal drain does not have anything to do with each other. I dont have any HA. and Phos are almost not detectable</span></span>
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<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">@mufret </span></span>
<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">no floats in the pic but i think i recall one outside in a previous posting, correct?</span></span>

 

[rdnelson]

To save a little room, why not just have the drains dump into the filter socks? Makes it a bit tougher to get the socks out but other than that I don't see a big problem with doing that. I put unions on my drains so I can easily remove that lower section of pipe when I want to change filter socks.