The solution is to redesign the sump.

Id love to see what you can come up with for that size space, Albert. :wink:

OK I have never had a sump, or designed one before, as you can tell. From what I can see on the sequence website, these pumps are not designed to suck, only push. This problem could be bridged by priming the line, but if I had a power failure, my cpr overflow would start up, but the reflo would not! So it looks like placing the pump above the sump is out of the picture.

Albert, we looked at another pomp, that was pressue rated, so i could possibly move my sump to the basement at a later time, but I forget what kind this was. Could you refresh my memory? can this pump suck/pull water?

I guess an internal pump may end up being the solution. Too bad , these reeflo pumps seem like a really good buy!:sad:

Robb

There really isn't a pump in the hobby that I could recommend for sucking water. If you do want to go with an internal, Sedra's, IMO, are better than Mag Drives.

In anycase, I could probably whip up a sump for those dimensions, but you'd be using Zeovit, har har har.

:lol: :lol:

Okay, I drew one out on paper. Give me a few minutes to transfer it to a computer image.

Okay

http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/6518/sumpcv2.th.gif

GOD!

I had this whole explanation written up on the sump and the stupid browser closed on me. Piece of crap.

Anyway, here it is again:

I've narrowed the sump to 12" in order to get the Snapper in behind the whole thing (or the front if you want ease of maintainance). I've also plopped in a few upgraded equipments just for show. Aside from that, at 18" tall, you should be looking at a 25 gallon sump. If you're concerned about an overflow (power outtage), just make sure you plumb the return into a manifold that sits on top of the tank or suspended under the frame. This should reduce, if not remove, any drainage into the sump.

The last thing you'll need is a good auto top-off unit (PM me) and you'll be set.

What took you so long?

You gotta factor in "MSN chatting" and "eating" time when you do these things :P

Next question, How much would this cost me? Sans Zoevit (Sorry Albert, Im not sold on this yet) . I guess I could probably find a beat up old 25 gallon on buy'n'sell. Nah, I don't really know how to drill it, and I would still have to source all the rest of the glass to build the bafles etc.

I am still confused, I thought the baffles had to be before the snapper in order to prevent microbubbles from the skimmer getting pumped back into the display?