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05-20-2010, 08:54 PM
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I believe he said he was looking at a 210g tank which is 6 foot long so a 90g tank that is standard is 4 foot gives you 2 feet of extra room for a shelf or 2 for putting your chemicals and dry good on. In the 90g you can section off a area that comes to 10 g for your ATO water. Now you you guys see where I am going with this everything in one area. you can make a sump with a fuge on top that uses only 1/3rd of the area and under you Ty-wrap some egg crate together for things like sponges to grow on and mini feather dusters, this polishes the water for you. I have a acrylic sump built that employ-es this idea and looks good tanks up less space and I have no worries of overflow. it is 20 inches deep but only 10 of it is for the sump and the top 10 for the fuge which only take up 1/3 rd the area on top. that leaves almost 20g for over flow.
I have not installed the sump yet but did a wet run of it and it works well. Bill 
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05-21-2010, 02:13 AM
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...thank you very much everyone...I just use mine for putting unsightly stuff in, and running reactors...but never really thought about what the "proper" size is...the tank I am setting up at work has no room for a large sump as it's a strangely built cabinet with a closed loop on each side.....but it is 10 feet long (and another build altogether!!!!)....the 210g is another project.....keep the ideas and info coming, oh, and if anyone is volunteering to build me one...I'm totally open to that! LOl
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05-21-2010, 04:16 AM
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