Bilk
02/17/2011, 06:40 PM
I'm building a new system which will have a 50G tank and a sump of approximately 12G. The general setup most employ and what I had, returned the water from the protein skimmer back to the main sump, mixing it with supply water from the main tank, thus recycling it. The sump is also where dosing takes place. It seems counter intuitive now as the skimming does remove trace elements from the dosing and it also intermingles the fresh makeup water with the unskimmed water.
I was wondering if anyone uses a separate sump for the skimmer to dump the skimmed water into and then pumps this water back to the tank. I'm sure the system can be throttled to balance the input and output from the main tank. And, the second sump can have an overflow that does return water to the filter sump if the flow is too great.
Any thoughts? Any drawbacks? Do you think I can achieve enough turnover from the protein skimmer? Should I oversize the skimmer?
Hope this is all making sense. :hmm6:
I was wondering if anyone uses a separate sump for the skimmer to dump the skimmed water into and then pumps this water back to the tank. I'm sure the system can be throttled to balance the input and output from the main tank. And, the second sump can have an overflow that does return water to the filter sump if the flow is too great.
Any thoughts? Any drawbacks? Do you think I can achieve enough turnover from the protein skimmer? Should I oversize the skimmer?
Hope this is all making sense. :hmm6: