Guess what! UPGRADE TIME

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by kien

Yes, I would be one of those people LOL.. BUT, I also know that a lot of people are using them with great success. The key is to have them easily removable with unions on either side so you can take them up and dunk them in vinegar on a regular basis to keep crud from building up inside. To me that's not an ideal solution but it's workable and people are working their systems that way today. If it were me I would just redo the sump since it's not currently being used yet.

And again, look on the bright side. It's good that you discovered this now so you can address it now rather than a few months down the road on a day where you had some people over and moved the nozzles around for show-and-tell and completely forgot to move them back to their up position. Murphy would have laughed at you and cut the power to your house on that day probably. He's a bastard like that..

You love Murphy don't you

[kien]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

You love Murphy don't you

if by "love" you mean I want to embrace him in a suffocating and crushing hug whilst squeezing the life out of him? Then yes.

Murphy is the guy who spills gallons of RO water on your floor even though you told everyone that will never happen to you because you will always pay attention to it and you will always set a timer to remind yourself to turn it off.

Murphy is the guy who makes your fish jump out of your tank that one time you forgot to put the mesh top back on your tank.

Murphy is the guy you will give you flat worms that one time you didn't dip that tiny 1" frag that you got thinking the guy you got it from must have dipped his corals and you dipped EVERY SINGLE CORAL prior to this one.

Who doesn't love Murphy?

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by kien

if by "love" you mean I want to embrace him in a suffocating and crushing hug whilst squeezing the life out of him? Then yes.

Murphy is the guy who spills gallons of RO water on your floor even though you told everyone that will never happen to you because you will always pay attention to it and you will always set a timer to remind yourself to turn it off.

Murphy is the guy who makes your fish jump out of your tank that one time you forgot to put the mesh top back on your tank.

Murphy is the guy you will give you flat worms that one time you didn't dip that tiny 1" frag that you got thinking the guy you got it from must have dipped his corals and you dipped EVERY SINGLE CORAL prior to this one.

Who doesn't love Murphy?

[mrhasan]

If my sump can accommodate 3 more gallons; it would be flood safe. I am thinking of lowering the first baffle (which is almost to the top of the rim). How would that work?

[Mike-fish]

i would lower both your first and your bubble trap as well. assuming you are able to with the depth requirements of the skimmer. you could also run with your return section lower just add a max water level mark

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by Mike-fish

i would lower both your first and your bubble trap as well. assuming you are able to with the depth requirements of the skimmer. you could also run with your return section lower just add a max water level mark

Water level at the return chamber is currently staying around half the depth of the current baffle so I guess I can lower it too.

[kien]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

If my sump can accommodate 3 more gallons; it would be flood safe. I am thinking of lowering the first baffle (which is almost to the top of the rim). How would that work?

Should be fairly simply. Drain sump, cut out the pain of glass that's your refugium. Have concepts make you a new pain of glass or cut one yourself out of acrylic. Figure out how high (or low) it should be by doing some math to subtract 3 or 4 gallons from the refugium. Volume is LxWxH right? 'H' being the height of the refugium baffle taking into account the extra dead space above the refugium to allow for that extra 3g/4g of back siphon.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by kien

Should be fairly simply. Drain sump, cut out the pain of glass that's your refugium. Have concepts make you a new pain of glass or cut one yourself out of acrylic. Figure out how high (or low) it should be by doing some math to subtract 3 or 4 gallons from the refugium. Volume is LxWxH right? 'H' being the height of the refugium baffle taking into account the extra dead space above the refugium to allow for that extra 3g/4g of back siphon.

Question of the day: how to cut off the baffles?

I want everything to be bulletproof. Already spent a lot so a few more $$$ shouldn't be a problem if that helps me enjoy the tank without any worries.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

Question of the day: how to cut off the baffles?

I'd use a hammer

[kien]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

Question of the day: how to cut off the baffles?

You mean how do you cut them out or cut them down to size? To cut them out just use a utility knife/razor blade and cut out the silicone that's holding the baffle. If you mean cutting it down to size, you'll have to take it to a glass shop if it is glass. If it is acrylic you can buy an acrylic cutting tool at a hardware store. Or just take it to the Double-Ds at Concepts :-)