sump pump

[kyle]

ok im getting a 100g tank and i plan on puting a sump on it and i need help with the plumming and the pumps i was planning on 2 1000 gph. 1 to suck the water from the DT and 1 to blow water to the DT. i heard the pump have to be 10x the size of the tank??? oh the sump is going to be 50g

[Hornet]

Originally Posted by kyle

1 to suck the water from the DT and 1 to blow water to the DT. i heard the pump have to be 10x the size of the tank??? oh the sump is going to be 50g

Not sure if I'm not understanding your post right. But you don't need a pump to "suck" water from the DT. Gravity will take care of that.

[kyle]

yea but i reather play it safe and have a pump it more controld if ya know wat i mean. i heard u you dont really need one but i think it also mite make it easer in the long run

[daugherty]

you may run into big problems doing that. is your tank drilled? you will not have very much controll over that if you have two of the same pumps one lets say the one in the tank will be pummping near the thousand gallons and the pump in the sump will only be pumping 5 or 6 hundred not a good difference there. and even if you loose power the pump in the tank will still siphon the water out and will have no way of being pumped back to the tank.

[McCrary]

Pumping water from the display tank is not going to be necessary, as mentioned above gravity will do the work for you. If the tank has a built in overflow then the water will spill over the overflow as the pump from the sump pushes the water out of the sump and into the tank. Eheim makes a good submersible pump, the 1260 would fit your need very well as its around 650-700 gph.

[Hornet]

Ok, well I'll stay outta this then because with all my newbness I'm missing something.

I'm currently working on setting up a tank and I'll be using 2 pumps 1 to pump water from sump back to the DT and another pump for a closed-loop system.

I'll sit back and see what the great minds have to say about your set-up

Are you looking for a submersible pump or an external. Also 100 gal does not seem to be a standard size for a tank. Have you already located that tank somewhere?

[kyle]

ok im so confused. my tank is not drilled i have know clue what an overflow is and do i have to have "overflows". i dont reall understand the pump thingy should i have a small pump in the DT and a bigger 1 in the sump for a return???

[daugherty]

get an overflow box that is rated for a good amount of water flow. here is one
http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~SearchStr~over+flow+box~action~view~id Product~CR1517~idCategory~FIOFEB~category~CPR_CS10 2_Overflow_Box_Saltwater_Aquarium_Supplies_Overflo w_Box_External_Boxes%26vendor%3d.html

[Hornet]

Kyle you might want to read through some of the threads in the articles section. Here is a good one that I read through and it helped me out a lot.

http://www.livingreefs.com/forums/se...ers-guide.html

[kyle]

do i need an overflow i still dont know wat is, how it works i dont wanna spend money on crap if i dont need it. i wanna keepit simple and i think i can do it with out one