building a sump, what do i need to put in it?

[monocus]

figure out your height,length of return ,elbows etc before getting your pump-there's a formula in the reef aquarium volume 3 on page 111-hell you might as well read all of chapter 3.the rest of the book helps as well

[fLshgear]

sump.jpg

i was going to do this design. i found one of my tanks that is 23" wide. so that would work good.

the pic is for a 36"

i was going to make the skimmer area 8" the return 6" and the fuge 7"

[monocus]

put your skimmer at the fuge with the water in ,your fuge at the return with no water out,your baffles,then your return where you were going to put your skimmer with the same sizes-that way you will get everything flowing one way with a larger refugium