I know pies has just asked for photos on this and other stuff, but have not seen many yet.

Could you put up photos of your sumps

Tim

To summarise my setup from Main tank through Filtration and back...

Water from main tank into overflow...

...out of overflow...

...downstairs into Refugium...

...from Refugium...

...along plumbing...

...into Sump...

...from Sump (older photo - plumbing changed)...

...into Iwaki...

...pumped back upstairs...

...up through plumbing...

...through Sea-swirl back into main tank...

My sump is remote and exists in the garge 1 floor below the tank itself.

The sump/s are currently on the other side of the garage at the moment, and will be moved once I build a room to hold the sump/s. I am going to use my old tank as the primary sump/refugium. Then am having another sump build, which will be a six footer to replace the exisitng 3 footer, it will be for water/baffles/equipment only and not used for any rock/sand or life. It will not be lit, the refugium will be used to grow macro algae and grow frags with 2x 250watt MHs on reverse cycle.

The current plumbing and area where the sump will finally end up:

Connecting to this:

NOTE: The tank on the left is no longer present and is now Suphews reef tank.

Piemania

glad to see im not hte only one with a ghetto light fitting :lol: ,

Mean set ups what wattage is the iwaki

my Iwaki 55RLT is 1/9HP (83 watts)

pies Iwaki 100RLT is 1/3HP (248 watts)

heres my sump, recognise it tim 8) . im just new to this so any comments are welcome. also, i think i have 'cyno' or red algae in my sump. why is this stuff bad, and how do i get rid of it?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/bjordan/2005_0405tank0037.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/bjordan/2005_0405tank0028.jpg

thanks,

bonnie