Sump/Refugium

out of the overflow i have a 3/4 inch bulkhead ( sometimes can be difficult to find the metric stuff ) the guy at marinedepot.com sent me a roll of flex pvc that goes down to the sock mounting bracket which required an adapter , then i just went to my hardware store and got a long piece of 1/2 inch pvc and routed it up to my tank with a ball valve in the mix so i could adjust the flow . Worls pretty well , i have to add like 2 cups of water to the sump every 15hrs or so . But i like to keep the water level low in my return portion of the sump . You could also put a check valve in there i suppose to keep water from going back down the pvc into sump incase of power outage . a mag 5 is probably good enough for ya though. depends on how far you wana run the pvc and stuff but id say mag 5 is fine

 

my inlet is about 6 ft of 1/2 inch pvc away from my pump and about 3 and a half ft of that is vertical , i have to hold my pump back with the ball valve ( mag 7)

 

Did you go for the proflex sump? If yes, how do you like it? Im planing on buying one my self. What is the size of the filter socks?

 

No. I skipped the sump all together and just upgraded from my biocube to a RSM 250.

 

Nice!!!