boyer
10/16/2010, 10:29 PM
First of let me reintroduce myself! I'm Chris from Oakland, Ca!! I know their are a lot of nor cal folk on here!
Hehe anyways, I've been out of the scene for about 5 years, I had a 29H back when I was about 17, and I had it running pretty well for about 2 years till I was forced to sell it. I had sparks under my bum for a few years now and a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with my soon to be expecting fiance! the sparks lit the tinder and created a fire, so with permission, I went on the search.
I found an eclipse 12g for $50 new on Craigslist,
http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/70swinger510/photo.jpg
I bought a sheet of acrylic, a sheet of egg crate and a sheet of lexan.
I know i defiantly want to have a foam aquascape. and I want a refugium and I do not have space for a sump. So i was thinking i could cut about a half inch of acrylic of the back of the fish tank, leaving maybe an inch or 2 normal height on each side. and build refugium right of the back of the tank and use bulk heads to feed it? is it possible?
Should I build an internal overflow like this one
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/Ishtar10/almostlast.jpg
use a bulk head to fill the refugium and a small return pump to pump back into the tank?
http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/70swinger510/overflow.jpg
The bulk head is inside the overflow comparment :) i just put it there in the drawing.
now if I have a good return pump shouldnt it create enough water movement to pass throught the fugi? or am I going to need a pump pumping into the fugi and a return pump from the fugi to the tank?
Or do i need to redesign my entire idea? I would like to keep the stock filter just to run some bag filters and no bio wheel.
I'm also going to do a 96watt coralife retrofit under the stock hood.
any advice thanks!
Any ideas? on what I should do?
Hehe anyways, I've been out of the scene for about 5 years, I had a 29H back when I was about 17, and I had it running pretty well for about 2 years till I was forced to sell it. I had sparks under my bum for a few years now and a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with my soon to be expecting fiance! the sparks lit the tinder and created a fire, so with permission, I went on the search.
I found an eclipse 12g for $50 new on Craigslist,
http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/70swinger510/photo.jpg
I bought a sheet of acrylic, a sheet of egg crate and a sheet of lexan.
I know i defiantly want to have a foam aquascape. and I want a refugium and I do not have space for a sump. So i was thinking i could cut about a half inch of acrylic of the back of the fish tank, leaving maybe an inch or 2 normal height on each side. and build refugium right of the back of the tank and use bulk heads to feed it? is it possible?
Should I build an internal overflow like this one
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/Ishtar10/almostlast.jpg
use a bulk head to fill the refugium and a small return pump to pump back into the tank?
http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/70swinger510/overflow.jpg
The bulk head is inside the overflow comparment :) i just put it there in the drawing.
now if I have a good return pump shouldnt it create enough water movement to pass throught the fugi? or am I going to need a pump pumping into the fugi and a return pump from the fugi to the tank?
Or do i need to redesign my entire idea? I would like to keep the stock filter just to run some bag filters and no bio wheel.
I'm also going to do a 96watt coralife retrofit under the stock hood.
any advice thanks!
Any ideas? on what I should do?