Once you remove the bioballs and the drip plate, your
wet/dry-converted-to-a-sump will fill up with more water than you are
expecting. It did for me when I did the same.

You'll have to think about how you want to do this, to avoid microbubbles. You
might reverse it to have the water pour into the 10g where the skimmer is
sitting, then it pours water into the refugium, through a bubble trap and then
finally the return zone where your return pump is located.

Those wet/dry units have the partition in the wrong position, but you could
alter it to make a decent bubble trap and cut/route/drill the existing partition
to let water get through. It'll be noisy, unless you make a lot of holes that
are decent size.... like I said, I did it once myself.
http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com...nt_newsump.jpg

Marc



Henry wrote:

Marc,
The 10g tank sits now with about 3" of water in it. The drain from the
tank overflows enters the Amircle Wet/Dry on the far right at a depth of
10", then goes over a barrier onto a drip tray, down into the bio-balls with
about 3" of water in that section. It then passes through a foam pad into
the area the return pump currently sits in. On the wall of that area is a
bulkhead that connects via 1/1/2 pipe to the 10g tank. I can put the pump
for the skimmer in the 10" section of the wet-dry to supply water to the
skimmer and put the skimmer and return pump in the 10g tank. This will
limit the amount of waterflow through the area that currently has the
bio-balls. I also can raise the entire depth of the water in the sump and
still have plenty of room for a power outage.
From your pages, it seems I have a problem with the return water from
the skimmer being next to the return pump to the tank due to microbubbles -
I am not sure what I can do about that.

Henry
"Marc Levenson" wrote in message
...
I can only comment on the Aqua C and the Euro Reef because those I'm
familiar
with.

The EuroReef can sit in deeper waters, up to 11" I believe. It is
adjusted by
lifting and lowering the tube adjascent to the reaction chamber (where the
bubbling takes place). It is pretty simple, but make sure the footprint
fits
your 10g. Remember it will have a pump in there with the skimmer, PLUS
you
wanted to add a return pump as well.... might get *very tight* in there...
plus
you won't have much room for water volume which means either topping off
very
regularly or using a top off switch.

The Aqua C is adjusted with a gate valve, and can only sit in 6"-8" of
water.
It could be put on a short stand to lift it up slightly, but you have
limited
room. The good thing about that unit is the collection cup only needs to
be
lifted about 1/4" and it can be removed to the side or out the front.
Very
userfriendly.

When you consider your wet/dry for the new refugium, and a 10g to hold the
skimmer and return pump, you have to consider two things:

How much water will the combined units hold when the power goes out and
the tank
drains off the excess until the overflow box is level with the water's
surface?

What will you do to reduce microbubbles in your tank?

Here are two webpages to give you some ideas and some suggestions. Both
of the
skimmers mentioned above are great units.

http://www.melevsreef.com/what_sump.html
http://www.melevsreef.com/make_a_sump.html

Marc


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