althea2you
Active Member
ok... when designing your sump(well mine actually ) i am having some questions... i am having the water level be about 9"...the tank is 16" high. now, it goes a little something like this..
water comes down to the intake part of the sump(bubble box thing) and fills the Skimmer portion,---> then flows over the first baffle (9" high)---> under the next baffle( any specification on how high this baffle should be off the floor of the sump?) ---->then over the third baffle into the Refugium( is this baffle recommended to be the same height as the first baffle? or lower?) then it flows to the return (should this baffle(with teeth..actually each baffle on each side of the refugium will have teeth)be then lower than the third baffle to keep the flow going through to the return?(or should all the baffles be the same height?))
our design so far is with all the baffles the same hight to keep the water level at 9"(except for the center baffle of the bubble trap, that obviously will be higher), should we lower the last 2 baffles some? i have searched the forum and could not find my answer... so any help would be greatly appreciated.. i searched Melev's reef, and other links i saw in my search through here, and could not find a spec chart for baffle height. so if you can answer my red highlighted areas of confusion ...that would ..yes.. be great! lol...tia!
water comes down to the intake part of the sump(bubble box thing) and fills the Skimmer portion,---> then flows over the first baffle (9" high)---> under the next baffle( any specification on how high this baffle should be off the floor of the sump?) ---->then over the third baffle into the Refugium( is this baffle recommended to be the same height as the first baffle? or lower?) then it flows to the return (should this baffle(with teeth..actually each baffle on each side of the refugium will have teeth)be then lower than the third baffle to keep the flow going through to the return?(or should all the baffles be the same height?))
our design so far is with all the baffles the same hight to keep the water level at 9"(except for the center baffle of the bubble trap, that obviously will be higher), should we lower the last 2 baffles some? i have searched the forum and could not find my answer... so any help would be greatly appreciated.. i searched Melev's reef, and other links i saw in my search through here, and could not find a spec chart for baffle height. so if you can answer my red highlighted areas of confusion ...that would ..yes.. be great! lol...tia!