Sump/refuge
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Baffles can be any way you need them to be, but you build the first one highest and then successively shorter. The easiest way to baffle is along the entire width of the tank. So basically you could divide you tank into 3 or 4 areas depending on what you need.
I'd say 1200 to 1500 gph flow would be good in your situation, from sump to tank. with a ball valve in place to dial it back if need be. You'll also need a few power heads in your display
I'd say 1200 to 1500 gph flow would be good in your situation, from sump to tank. with a ball valve in place to dial it back if need be. You'll also need a few power heads in your display
My 40 is set up with hob and I got a hob skimmer as well.got a few different Zoe's and 4 or 5 differs corals I'm nt sure what they are. I wanna go mostly softies maybe some sps later on once I get the hang of things. Depends on my lighting right? It's had corallife 4 bulb cf for about 6 months. Just got a 2-150w mh with 2 96w cf. wanted to go t5 but couldn't pass up the price. Basically wanna know what's gonna be best refuge to keep any coral I want if need be.
id say use 9" baffles for your skimmer section and space it far enough to have enough room for upgrade to a real skimmer later. The other baffles id go about 8" so the water level will be lower than your skimmer section. You can always adjust height of your return pump in case you need to adjust for flood control.
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Your skimmer depth will depend on what skimmer you get. You don't want to make the baffles 8" and you end up needing 10". On the other hand, I've seen a very successful reef kept with a hob coralife skimmer on a 75.
Your skimmer depth will depend on what skimmer you get. You don't want to make the baffles 8" and you end up needing 10". On the other hand, I've seen a very successful reef kept with a hob coralife skimmer on a 75.
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I may be stating the obvious but you also want to make sure you account for your transit volume, which is how much of your tank will drain into the sump in a power outage (unless you're using check valves, which many people recommend against). I ended up doing a spreadsheet to figure out how to maximize and get as much fuge volume as possible without using all my transit volume space, haha, that was overboard. Then after ordering all the cut glass I changed my mind and went baffle-less, as I didn't want to limit myself. I just built an eggcrate basket for my microalgae, a big rubbermaid container for DSB, an eggcrate platform for my skimmer, and threw everything into the sump roughly in sequence. Of course you can't get perfect inline water flow through all sections, but I love the fact that I can do huge/fast water changes completely from my sump without screwing around with baffles. Just a thought.