Guess what! UPGRADE TIME

[kien]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

Tested the sump capacity with skimmer and the nozzles dipped to the same level as the return hole. There's just too much water (possibly around 10+ gallons) till the water level goes below the return line so my sump cannot hold the water

This is the 2nd sump I got. For some reason; I am having really bad luck with this thing too

Keep the sump and get a check valve :-) .. oh wait, there's one sitting on your table over there ---->

[kien]

Originally Posted by kien

Keep the sump and get a check valve :-) .. oh wait, there's one sitting on your table over there ---->

Or re-do the sump. Up to you :-)

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by kien

Keep the sump and get a check valve :-) .. oh wait, there's one sitting on your table over there ---->

I was browsing through some threads in reefcentral and people seem to literally "hate" it like putting a tang in 2gallon overly crowed mixed reef tank with little to no maintenance!!

[kien]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

I was browsing through some threads in reefcentral and people seem to literally "hate" it like putting a tang in 2gallon overly crowed mixed reef tank with little to no maintenance!!

Yes, I would be one of those people LOL.. BUT, I also know that a lot of people are using them with great success. The key is to have them easily removable with unions on either side so you can take them up and dunk them in vinegar on a regular basis to keep crud from building up inside. To me that's not an ideal solution but it's workable and people are working their systems that way today. If it were me I would just redo the sump since it's not currently being used yet.

And again, look on the bright side. It's good that you discovered this now so you can address it now rather than a few months down the road on a day where you had some people over and moved the nozzles around for show-and-tell and completely forgot to move them back to their up position. Murphy would have laughed at you and cut the power to your house on that day probably. He's a bastard like that..

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by kien

Yes, I would be one of those people LOL.. BUT, I also know that a lot of people are using them with great success. The key is to have them easily removable with unions on either side so you can take them up and dunk them in vinegar on a regular basis to keep crud from building up inside. To me that's not an ideal solution but it's workable and people are working their systems that way today. If it were me I would just redo the sump since it's not currently being used yet.

And again, look on the bright side. It's good that you discovered this now so you can address it now rather than a few months down the road on a day where you had some people over and moved the nozzles around for show-and-tell and completely forgot to move them back to their up position. Murphy would have laughed at you and cut the power to your house on that day probably. He's a bastard like that..

You love Murphy don't you

[kien]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

You love Murphy don't you

if by "love" you mean I want to embrace him in a suffocating and crushing hug whilst squeezing the life out of him? Then yes.

Murphy is the guy who spills gallons of RO water on your floor even though you told everyone that will never happen to you because you will always pay attention to it and you will always set a timer to remind yourself to turn it off.

Murphy is the guy who makes your fish jump out of your tank that one time you forgot to put the mesh top back on your tank.

Murphy is the guy you will give you flat worms that one time you didn't dip that tiny 1" frag that you got thinking the guy you got it from must have dipped his corals and you dipped EVERY SINGLE CORAL prior to this one.

Who doesn't love Murphy?

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by kien

if by "love" you mean I want to embrace him in a suffocating and crushing hug whilst squeezing the life out of him? Then yes.

Murphy is the guy who spills gallons of RO water on your floor even though you told everyone that will never happen to you because you will always pay attention to it and you will always set a timer to remind yourself to turn it off.

Murphy is the guy who makes your fish jump out of your tank that one time you forgot to put the mesh top back on your tank.

Murphy is the guy you will give you flat worms that one time you didn't dip that tiny 1" frag that you got thinking the guy you got it from must have dipped his corals and you dipped EVERY SINGLE CORAL prior to this one.

Who doesn't love Murphy?

[mrhasan]

If my sump can accommodate 3 more gallons; it would be flood safe. I am thinking of lowering the first baffle (which is almost to the top of the rim). How would that work?