What Kind of media do you use in your sump?

[Dale]

Yes it is a remote DSB.
The RC thread says it all. In my case, instead of a bucket, I sectioned off a chamber in my sump 36"L x 5"W x 12"H fed by my skimmer return line and draining into my return pump chamber. I filled it with a coral based substrate.

Here's a pic during the building phase (The plastic plants were there to better highlight the refugium chamber).

The sump flow initially goes:
Display drain (black PVC pipe), Mechanical filtration (AC 500 Sponge), Skimmer chamber.
From there it goes either:
Skimmer returnline, R.D.S.B., return pump chamber
or:
skimmer chamber, Refugium chamber, baffles, return pump chamber.




Coderad, What size of display do you have and what does your sump look like? Is it a prefab model or just a tank? How you set up a sump depends somewhat on the space available and the livestock you intend to keep.
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BMW R1150RT

[Coderad]

Sorry about the delayed reply. My display is a 32 gal, it is a FOWLR right now 2 clowns a bunch of snails and and eurchant and a couple zebra hermit crabs.
Hopefully I will be adding some easy corals this fall. The sump is a prefab 10gal here is a pic of my sump.

[Coderad]

Bump

[reeferaddict]

I just took everything out and run it bare now... I'm SO sick of nitrates!

[Coderad]

Not even live rock?

[reeferaddict]

Nope... I had about 60 lbs in there and a RDSB... You shoulda seen the crap in there when I took it out... and STINK! I'm almost ashamed... I can't believe my fish lived in a system with all that crap in it!

The school of thought is constantly changing... some stuff you may have read may suggest using media in your sump, and believe me I had all that too as do many people, but now thought is swinging to keeping even less rock and having more flow around it to make it more efficient... rocks & sand in a sump tend to act as detritus collectors so read "higher nitrates"... I LOVE my sand in my system and all the critters in it, but after this I am seriously considering removing all of it if I can't get zero nitrates using other methods.

[Coderad]

So what do you use for filtration just the LR and sand in your tank? your Just using the sump for more water volume?