10 gallon tank

I have an old 10 gallon glass tank I wanted to use for a refugium under my 55 gal tank. Any thought on how to set this up??

 

totally doable!! i wish i had room underneath my stand for something like that, I have barely enough room for my skimmer in my sump!!

There are many ways of going about doing this. I presume that you already have a sump down there and have a drain from your DT going to it? If so, what you can do is have a line coming off the main drain and empty into the fuge. you want a flow of 1/10 of the DT going into the fuge. then have the fuge empty into the sump!

pretty simple!

 

I do have a sump with bioballs and stuff with the return pump in it. How should I go about moving the water from the sump to the refugium and back to the tank??

 

the way my father in law did it was drilled both 40g tanks he has underneath his 180g. as the water flows through the sump(1st 40g) and fills to the point where it is drilled it then flows into the fuge(2nd 40g) and then into the return pump

 

With a standard 10 gallon tank, I would not suggest doing it, only because the tank has such thin glass it is very easy to break. But with that said, I would try to make a stand to put the ten gallon tank over the current sump. Then drill the 10 gallon tank so that you can allow part of your drain to flow into the 10 gallon, and then have it overflow into the current sump.

Kim

 

I am setting up the same design right now. I have water flowing to my sump where I filter and use a phosban reactor. Then I have a U-tube that pulls the H20 from the sump to the fuge. Right now I have my return pump in the Fuge with one large piece of LR. I want to create some baffles that will keep the in and out sections seperate from the main fuge.

Basically you need one baffle to be higher then the bottom of the U-tube (this will maintain pressure). The water will flow over the baffle into the main fuge. Then I will have another baffle that is slightly lower (maybe an inch) that the water will flow from the fuge into the return.

As water flows into the U-tube section it will be forced to fill the main fuge. Once it if full to the return baffle any water that is added will cascade into the return pump section.

Usually most people put the in and out on opposite ends, but I am thinking of sectioning off one side of the tank and having both the in and out on the same side.

I hope this helps. 8)

 

line the bottom with egg crate, will help keep you from breaking the glass. I'm gonna be setting up a new tank this weekend, 10g sump on a 20g DT. I'm just gonna fill the tank with LR rubble as full as possible, put a small PS on one end, and the return at the other.

 

KGross,
I am facing a similar situation and I like the idea you mention. But I am wondering, should I or should I not drill a 10 gal tank? If it is drilled it would make things easy, but I don't want to have it blow up on my face.
Should I just take my chances and try drilling it?

-Arvin

 

http://www.3reef.com/forums/show-off-your-fish-tanks/my-42gal-10-gallon-sump-fuge-65002.html


See mine.... it is a fuge sump....10g

 

Well a 10 gallon around here is $10 so I wouldnt think it could hurt to try.