Sump

The Sump - The water flows down into the sump compartment where it tees off to 2 pipes. One pipe delivers water to my eco-cooler via a rotating spray-bar which then exits to flow over my dsb and then into the skimmer compartment. The 2nd pipe delivers water directly into the skimmer compartment and has a ball valve fitted to control the level of water in the weir.


Sump
The Sandbed - The walls to this compartment were initially 4" high which resulted in a slight sand overspill into the skimmer compartment. Sand was also washed out of the bed to a certain extent by water flow emptying from a return pipe (the 2nd pipe as mentioned above). This problem was rectified by increasing the height of the sand bed walls to 5.25" high with acrylic extensions and repositioning the return pipe to empty into the skimmer compartment. This has given me a sand depth of around 4".


Sandbed

As you can see I have place numerous pieces of live rock into the sump to help populate the sand bed with benficial critters. There are now sizeable populations of Bristle-worms, Mini-Brittle-Stars, Amphipods & Copepods. I have also re-located my Cerianthus Tube-worm here to keep it from accidentally stinging livestock in the main tank. It also makes feeding it a lot easier.


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