Lets see your filter sock mounting rigs

[The Codfather]

Hey Robb,
I also have a sump made by Dave, here is a pic of what it looks like. It works very nice, I'll snap a few pics tonight, your welcome to stop by and have a look if you want, but the setup is quiet. The only change was the filter sock tray was lowered, so there was a lip to catch the water. I did mod mine a bit, I added a few peices of acrylic to hold the sock down firmly, so all the water would pass through the socks.
Its a great design, and Dave did a very nice job putting it together.

[Parker]

Originally Posted by The Codfather

Hey Robb,
I also have a sump made by Dave, here is a pic of what it looks like. It works very nice, I'll snap a few pics tonight, your welcome to stop by and have a look if you want, but the setup is quiet. The only change was the filter sock tray was lowered, so there was a lip to catch the water. I did mod mine a bit, I added a few peices of acrylic to hold the sock down firmly, so all the water would pass through the socks.
Its a great design, and Dave did a very nice job putting it together.

This is perfect timing, I was trying to incorporate filter socks into my sump in a nice way. I built it out of a standard 75 gallon and used acrylic baffles in it, well due to the amount of flow I have running throught the sump the baffles haven't held up, all but one of them have come loose. Last night I was playing with my return pluming to add filter socks and my bulk heads started to leak like crazy and I can't get to them at the moment. I got annoyed an figured I would tear all my drains and sump apart and rebuild the entire thing correctly.

The bad part being, my sump doens't come out of the stand, so I have to rebuild it under the tank, I sense back-pain in my future!

I was thinking of pinging Dave to see if he was interested in building me the parts and ship them up and I could install them, hint, hint, nudge nudge..lol

Probably wasn't the best idea to pull my sump apart without a plan in place first, but I had to shut it down due the leaking bulkheads anyway. Heaters hanging in the tank, no skimmer, no reactors... lol