The use of the two FX5 was severly limitting on our coral selections due to the very minimalist flows the offer. I think its about 600L/hr of flow. Not to mention that if one hose ever failed we would have 180G of water on our floor with in minutes.

As noted in the last post I see any issue as an oportunity for an upgrade so with the HOB Skimmer spilling water on my floow I figured a sump as in order. The only issue is the tank was bottom Drilled without an overflow.

So task #1 was getting the tank set up for overflows. The only problem with this is that the tank was already up and running and shutting it down to do the overflows was not an option. I had the overflows build out of rain glass to add some interest to the tank and glued them in place with ORCA underwater aquarium glue, It actually works quite well as long as you scrub the slime off the tank. It took me about 2 hours to install both overflows.





Task #2 was getting the Sump set up. I put in a three cell sump with the skimmer chamber, Mud refugium and return chamber all in one tank. I actually left the fx5's running over the side of the tank during the entire sump and overflow install.





I upgraded the Skimmer to a Bubble King Mini 200 with the sump upgrage and have yet to look back. It is an amazing Skimmer and fit perfectly into the sump.


We also added a Naso Tang and a few other goodies to the tank around the same time






Once we had the overflows and had all the rock stacked up we really started to notice how poorly the tank was lit. Time for another upgrade!