Custom refugium/sump build.

LOL a fish room might be to big but would be alot better IMO.

you could build like a pump house type of cover for it, insolate it and run a window unit to keep some sort of climate control in the summer and winter, pics would help ;D
I live in valdosta about 3 hours south from ya and have thought about the same thing and have looked into somthing like that, and a window unit and a few heters in the winter would be better. as far as the sump goes a 55 gallon would work.

 

so this is what i would do if i were in your socks i would build the fish room thinggy go on craigs list and get a cheep window ac unit there is your cooling and for heat u use heaters what do you say

 

ummm....

payback.

 

+1 ^^^^^^^

 

What is the gravity situation here? Can you put the sump up a table to keep it off the floor? Something like this:
http://www.3reef.com/forums/general-reef-topics/basement-fish-room-finally-30655.html#post285802

 

well, since the tank is basically at the same level ( other than the stand) than the sump.. i cant really put a table that high up..

what i thought of maybe doing was something like a small "step" just so that the tank isnt entirely on the floor..
unless there is a way i can have my sump higher up and still get the water to flow down from the overflows.

I have in my mind to do it like if it was a shelve.. have the sump/ refugium in the bottom and then all the other equipment higher up. ( it will save me some space)

I will upload pics as soon as i begin this project

 

You've got me confused. Perhaps I should start over and read from the beginning of the thread.

 

or you can ask and i can try to clarify...

im just trying to build a refugium outside the stand.. i thought that maybe i could just put it out in the garage but there are some other variables that could make it impossible..

so i decided that making a fish room might be the best way to go about doing it.

 

Orrrrrr go option 3 build the fishroom put the sump lower then the dt so it can be gravity fed from the dt,build a shelf for a 3rd tank higher then the dt and have the sump pump into both the dt and te fuge and have thhe fuge feed the dt though gravity .as for the fish room you could heat the tank with extra heaters and eithher cool the room using another ac unit or putting another hole or 2 in the wall to circulate into the house.

 

this sounds good too, but im trying to minimize the costs.. So i think it would be a lot cheaper to divide a 55G into a sump/refugium at the floor level and just pump it back.