My 300 gallon Drop Off Reef Tank Build

MarkoD · #1 11-25-2011, 04:24 PM

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 · #2 11-25-2011, 04:48 PM

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 · #3 11-25-2011, 04:53 PM

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 · #4 11-25-2011, 04:57 PM

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 · #5 11-25-2011, 06:34 PM

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

Gripenfelter · #6 11-25-2011, 06:48 PM

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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.

MarkoD · #7 11-25-2011, 06:50 PM

Ladder? Pffff just make escalators