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Old 07-25-2013, 04:18 AM
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Originally Posted by freeze View Post
I am thinking I have two options and that is one of them and the easiest. I have some lexan I could silicone in and would be done.

The other is to have the skimmer in bottom left and return pump in the upper left. Throw in a bubble trap. Have the fuge in the right trapazoid and build a wall there as well to give me some volume and have water fall over it and then under into the top left return.
It would be better longterm if you used glass, not lexan, unless the area you place it in will stop it from moving - angled to fit with pressure holding it in place. Plex and glass don't silicone together well. Many have had success siliconing plex baffles in sumps, so you may be OK, but I'd use glass

OK, so your plan would be to increase the wall height and have the lower left skimmer area(drain from tank) go through a bubble trap, then spill into the trapezoid (fuge) and go under the glass to the return chamber ?

Sounds much more complicated
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