Sump help please?

[SuperFudge]

Originally Posted by cav~firez22

Marc,

With the snapper at 1/3 on both lines, there is alomst no flow. yes, after a day or two the bubbles would dissipate. but there would be next to no flow in the tank.

Wow, a day or two ? they should dissapate in less than a half hour.

Originally Posted by cav~firez22

there is no fluval running on the system at all.. in the pic its just hose running from a 802, through a uv steralizer, and back to the tank.

Oh, ok. none the less they should also be returned to the first or second chamber.

Originally Posted by cav~firez22

I am unable to find the socks to fit this sump here in kelowna so im gonna have to order them up.

These will make a world of difference for you im sure.

Originally Posted by cav~firez22

My main tank flow is now the problem. when i bought this, i bought it because i did not want to use power heads anymore, and was told this would be the route to take.

This still is the route to take,but it is impossible to get the flow on any reef tank up to snuff through the return pump alone.
if it was a reef ready set up you purchased, likley it has only one or two at most 1" drains....these can account for at most about 6-700 gph on average each with a passive flow. on yours that means about 1/3 of your snapper is being used.
Any more is too much and will cause problems.
safe to say most reef tanks will be a minimum of 20x turnover rate...youd never achieve this with a return pump.
So, you WILL need additional in tank current, i would consider using tunze`s or koralia`s, vortechs to achieve the additional flow you need.

So with these in place return pump flow is only enouph for surface skimming.(no oil slick on top).

[Der_Iron_Chef]

What about a closed loop?

[cav~firez22]

well, I had Palster stop by and shed some knowledge upon my system, and we both determined that the problem is sediment in the water that is not filtering out or settling. I am going to try to polish the water with a big filter and pump, and hopefully this works.

Thank you everone for your advice, it is greatly appreciated. I'm gonna get some of those filter socks asap as well.

Thanks again.

[mseepman]

Hey I was wondering how things with your sump are going? I am in the process of putting together a 20gal sump for my 70gal display and am always interested in what other people have experienced first.
I was glad to see some other Okanagan reefers come to your aid. If you're ever desperate for saltwater supplies (like filter socks), AJ's in Vernon carries quite a bit of stuff.

[Captainhemo]

Was kinda curiius myself as I'm also working on a sump redesign soon

[cav~firez22]

my bubble issues are gone. just put a piece of filter floss around the output of the protein skimmer, and that got rid of the bubbles from that. The sump is still a litle small because I cant put anything is it AKA refigum, calc reactor. ect