Thread: reverse sump?
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Old 10-01-2010, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic View Post
I've done one before. It works fine as long as you have a relatively low output pump & maybe have a second emergency drain drilled into the sump in case of clogging.

I used a 20g sump, refugium over a 65g DT. Maxijet to get water up & gravity feed back down into the DT. Works great for releasing LIVE mysis & pods from the refugium section back into the DT.

Ran it this way for over a year, no problems.

Anthony
that's exactly what I was thinking of doing...

I have an undrilled 54 corner tank with very little space for a sump below.

I've got a lot of space on the furnace right beside the tank, and I figured it'd be easier to do a reverse setup than mess with hang on overflow boxes and what not.

so it'd be a bad idea with a high output pump?
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