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Topic: help with sump fuge

Posted By: dlaclo
Subject: help with sump fuge
Date Posted: April 18 2007 at 8:39pm

ok i will describe my setup and then tell yall my question. Ok my over flow goes straight down into my sump and i dont have enough room in my sump to set-up my fuge so i was wondering if i could put to ts on my return and my siphon so i could set it up so water went both to my sump and to my fuge and then have to return pumps one from my sump and one from fuge. I dont see any problems with this setup but as i am fairly new to the hobby there might be some un-wseen problems with it i dont know about.

thanks

p.s I will take some pics of my set up as soon as i cn afford to buy more...

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Posted By: pmpt
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 9:16am

I had a similar setup, I had a "T" going to my sump and the other to my refugium. But they were both in one tank, so I only had one return pump, but I don't see a problem with having two returns.

One question, how much room do you have above your sump? Could you fit a smaller rubber made container there? Then you could still have a "T" into the sump and refugium, but instead of buying another return pump you could just have your refugium drain straight into your sump. Pics would help.

Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 9:20am

It won't work.

You can't get the two t-s to perfectly match the output of the two pumps. Eventually one sump will overflow while the other runs dry. They need to be connected.

Adam

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Posted By: Ed Taylor
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 9:20am

I don't think that works. One pump would pump more than the other and that side would go dry.

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Posted By: dlaclo
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 9:38am

so i will have to drill a hole from my sump to my fuge then have my return come from my fuge to the tank? that is what i was afraid oh well it will have to work

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