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09-02-2011, 03:03 AM
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I'd suggest a controller and a bunch of float switches!
This sounds a little dangerous! 
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09-02-2011, 03:07 AM
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Float switches sound good, I didn't think of he amount of water that's going to be in the pipes, 30 feet of piping is a lot of water to drain when a pump shuts down.
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09-02-2011, 03:09 AM
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ok.....why do you have to go up and over?.....you cant drain directly through to the sump?......cant punch holes in the wall?......whats the scenario here?.......why do you have to go up and over a wall?.......how much room is under the cabinet?.....enough to do a skimmer and external pump, pumping to a remote reservoir (for volume) then back to the tank? that would be a safer scenario methinks.....
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09-02-2011, 03:13 AM
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Guys....if I'm understanding correct...there is no overflow and drain. He plans on pumping water from the display to the sump and also pumping water from the sump to the display. Which will never every work.
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09-02-2011, 03:48 AM
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Ok guys well the scenario is this the customer wants do a 6 ft x 16" wide tank and 36" high, which gives a problem under the tank as he us just building a quick 2x4 stand and thus it doesn't lend to very much room for a sump. The place we are thinking for the sump is in a room across a large hallway about 20 ft away! And we have to go up and over to get there so about 10 ft up then over 20ft! There will be an external overflow on this tank and I wanted it to go down to a sealed small tank and then a large enough external pump to push it up and over to the other room!
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09-02-2011, 04:05 AM
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With those measurements thats a 180G tank. 36" is pretty deep and hard to reach the bottom if you need to. If the customer goes 24" deep it drops it down to 120G. Than that will make rom for a sump underneath. The plan seems a little complicated and too much work.
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09-02-2011, 04:14 AM
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May very well be true! We will have to see! If so then it will be to plan B! Thought I would give it a try anyways!
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09-02-2011, 04:23 AM
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What about using canister filters in parallel to get the enough filtration and an inline protein skimmer? Would that not work??
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09-02-2011, 04:29 AM
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I think most of us on here started out with cannister filters. Most of us now have sumps. Might as well do it right from the start. Sumps are much easier to do things with and add new equipment with as you get more advanced in the hobby.
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