ah, hah, good advice, thankyou. its the thing i would like, yet cant
afford. anything over 40 dollars gets kinda expensize most of the time with
my budget. i have to buy another 5 gallon bucket of salt and renew my dKh
buffer solution, and strontium and molybendum supplements, which will run me
about the cost of the skimmer i imagine first, then i have to come up with
another 80 dollars again for the skimmer. so thats twice over budget, so
theres goin to be a coup0le month lag here until i get this skimmer i fear.
the sump is 6 gal, the tank is 55-0r60 gal, not sure, need to mesure and
calculate. only had it 10 yrs, lol. think its 55.

i have a neat idea for those of you that dont like to add water frequently,
reduces maintence, easy. I took a 5 gal bucket last week, brought it home
with fresh RO, like usual, but got an idea this time, took a siphon hose,
attached it to sump, now theyre one. have 4 more gallons on my sump now.
works in two ways, incase of poweroutage, more space in sump, about 9 gals,
and incase of vacation, i can add as m any of these 5 gal buckets with 4 gal
of water in them as i like, in fast i could fill my living floor with them
daisy chaining them to eachother with a connectinig siphon hose on each.
this will all siphon into the sump as the sump line gets lower than the
buckets. of course this is impractical, but you get the idea(ie... a 20
gallon flat wide sump next to a refugium inside a tamk stands bowels) .
i would keep a lid on the reseviour to keep water as clean as possible, when
you need to add water to your tank, add it to the resorviour to keep from
stirring up the sump contents.

2 things to remember,
resorvior waterline must be no higher than ideal sump water height, (unless
resorvior is watertight then it wouldnt be a siphon, and you would be
redesigning my idea, lol)

and THIS WILL NOT ADD TO YOUR TANKS TOTAL VOLUME OF CIRCULATED FILTERED
WATER. it will only add a backup system to keep water level from being
reduced as quickly, there-by REDUCING MAINTENANCE.

wolfhedd

p.s. if i totally confused anyone, i can send you a paint diagram sometime

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"wolfhedd" wrote in message
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what do ya guys think, heres a paint drawing of my wet dry siphon
system.
all the equip is hanging or on the floor.
wolfhedd




I like it, but since you're going this far, I'd really recommend a
pump-driven skimmer rather than the airstone-driven one. What size is the
tank, and how much water will the sump hold?

My 2 cents.