Reef sumps by ESHOPPS

"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message k.net...
I have not seen that one, but I'm not a big fan of premade
sumps with baffles. I much prefer a regular tank that can
always be used as a tank later, and can be flexible in
use. I prefer to use live rock, and sea weed instead of
baffles. And instead of drilling a sump, I prefer to use
an external pump, and simply send the plumbing up and over
the wall of the tank.

Using seaweed requires the sump to be lighted.

Not using baffles you are dealing with air bubbles
going into the return pump and geting into the tank.
How do you deal with air bubbles?

Also, occupying sump with live rock you have no room
there left for placing skimmer, phosphate reaktor
and other devices people normally put in the sump.

Having 90' elbows on your plumbing you waste the
pump power - each elbow is like a foot hight, so
the flow rate you get from the pump is much lesser...
I also do not drill the sump, but I use internal pump
like quiet one 3000 which has enough flow for my 58 g.