As I mentioned earlier Nicole, Check out the club links. I have seen photos of the club house, and they have quite a few tanks set up and running. They might have a few tanks with sumps at the club house, if not, a few of the club members work in LFS and often LFS have show tanks set up with sumps, especially if it's a salt water tank. The cost of a sump will be about the same cost as a good canister filter. Of course if you buy retail, it will be about the same, but if you can buy the sump tank itself second hand, then you can customise the media, etc.
Are you on any Melbourne/Victorian Aquarium buy and sell FB groups?
Click here to view my 75g Acrylic Tank w/ Bean Animal Overflow with 40g Sump Thread
Also, click here for my 25 group of discus grow out thread
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Want to look like Al did at his ACA talk with his white Simply Polo shirt?(You can catch Al's awesome Discus talk HERE)
You can get this and many more items such as T-shirts/Polos/hoodies/cups from our merchandise shop:
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