New 140gal tank... Sump vs. Canister?

[Arkangel77]

Sweet

[Darrell Ward]

Sounds good.

[tcyiu]

BTW, this is a little late, but I thought I would pass along a tip re: sealing with silicone. I work on my boat a lot. And there are some principles of sealing boats that also apply to aquariums.

When you apply silicone to a bulkhead, hand tighten the bulkhead, but not all the way. Let the silicone cure. And then tighten some more. The reason is that most everyday silicone shrinks as it cures.

After the silicone has cured, make sure that you are twisting/tightening the side of the bulk head that does NOT have the silicone gasket. You want to compress the silicone some more. If you twist the side with silicone, the silicone will get torn up and you will have leaks.

Hope this helps prevent leaks for anyone doing silicone work.

Tim

[David Rose]

Thanks for the pointers Tim! I'll keep it in mind for future reference. As it turned out, my bulkheads were new and I lucked out with the gaskets working out just fine, so I didn't use silicone. Given it was my first time working with bulkheads, it was probably something I did in my first attempt installing.

Take care,

[Arkangel77]

I got that Micron filter in place guys. Let me show ya how I did it.

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...272#post568272

Arkangel77

[discusjoe27]

a sump is basicly a wet/dry right if I remember, wet/dry is that the media gets wet, but air can still get to it consitering it "dry". sump-wet/dry, refugium depends on the media, and how the "square boxs" where built.

[David Rose]

Yep, bioballs are usually the media. I ended up buying an Eshopps as per the diagram below with two drains and large media chambers. It came with 10 gallons of bioballs. Half or less are under the water line as the drip tray trickles from above.



I was too chicken to build something for now, but I'm getting more confidence now in my plumbing skills after this set up.

a sump is basicly a wet/dry right if I remember, wet/dry is that the media gets wet, but air can still get to it consitering it "dry". sump-wet/dry, refugium depends on the media, and how the "square boxs" where built.