My 300 gallon Drop Off Reef Tank Build

[Gripenfelter]

Originally Posted by Myka

Where did you get this design concept from? The inaccessible areas I mean. Have you been looking at the designs people have been using for this type of tank?

Been researching it for months.

No one else has tried this like this.

If it doesn't work out I can cut the baffles out and remove the shelf if I have to. Been talking to lots of tank builders who say the key to it's success is flow and a large clean up crew.

Holes are only big enough for chromis, damsels, crabs, and shrimp. None of my tangs will get through the hole once the O-ring is in place.

[MarkoD]

350 gallon per hour pump is nothing. To have enough water movement in there you'll need like 750 gallons per hour in each of those chambers

[Gripenfelter]

I don't want it to be too powerful to keep crabs and fish from entering it.

The enclosed area is 3.5' long x 2' wide by 15" high.

[MarkoD]

It would suck to see you do all this work and have to take it apart in a month or 2

You should set up a closed loop in the baffles. Draw water from the first section and have it come out in the last section

[Gripenfelter]

Yes it would lol.

But there are a lot of people who have worse flowing sumps than this design.

You never know till you try. It's going to be a work in progress. Lots of tweaking along the way.

[MKLKT]

You could always try to make some sort of crab ladders (egg crate?) so stuff can climb up and out if needed.

[Gripenfelter]

Originally Posted by MKLKT

You could always try to make some sort of crab ladders (egg crate?) so stuff can climb up and out if needed.

Good idea. I'll do that.