xxBarneyxx
Fish Aficionado
I read alittle while ago about a sump design some guy had come up with. Basically it was your standard sump design with a couple of minor modifications.
In the center section he had the normal miricle mud/fuge but this was raised up and underneath he had eggcrate sections which the water flowed through which encourages filter feeders to take root in.
The other thing he had was lots of Aiptasia in the water in section which he claimed did a great job of taking particles out of the water and being a useful way of removing nutrients from the tank (removing them when they get to many).
The setup was something like the below, there was a skimmer in there somewhere (cant remeber where and as above the water in section had a load of Aiptasia in it).
Water in:::
-------Fuge-------::::Water Return:
Water in:::-------Fuge-------::::Water Return:
Water in:::
||||Eggcrate|||||::::Water Return:
Water in:::||||Eggcrate|||||::::Water Return:
It sounds like a good idea but there are a couple of potential problems I can see with it.
1) Aiptasia might get from here to the main tank, this could be solved by having peppermint shrimp in the main tank or using UV on the return pipe.
2) If you are trying to increase the 'pod population then having a bunch of filter feeders and Aiptasia in the fuge/sump area might not be the best thing to do. This could be overcome by maybe having a seperate fuge (HOB maybe)?
Anyway, was just curious what you all thought. Will add the link later to the actual site.
In the center section he had the normal miricle mud/fuge but this was raised up and underneath he had eggcrate sections which the water flowed through which encourages filter feeders to take root in.
The other thing he had was lots of Aiptasia in the water in section which he claimed did a great job of taking particles out of the water and being a useful way of removing nutrients from the tank (removing them when they get to many).
The setup was something like the below, there was a skimmer in there somewhere (cant remeber where and as above the water in section had a load of Aiptasia in it).
Water in:::
-------Fuge-------::::Water Return: Water in:::
-------Fuge-------::::Water Return:Water in:::
||||Eggcrate|||||::::Water Return:Water in:::
||||Eggcrate|||||::::Water Return:It sounds like a good idea but there are a couple of potential problems I can see with it.
1) Aiptasia might get from here to the main tank, this could be solved by having peppermint shrimp in the main tank or using UV on the return pipe.
2) If you are trying to increase the 'pod population then having a bunch of filter feeders and Aiptasia in the fuge/sump area might not be the best thing to do. This could be overcome by maybe having a seperate fuge (HOB maybe)?
Anyway, was just curious what you all thought. Will add the link later to the actual site.
