Reactors and Sumps

[Dominican]

When pulling water from a chamber of a sump for value-added processing of any sort, should the return be delivered to the same chamber, or to a dowstream chamber? Upstream? Skip a chamber for some reason?

There are a bunch of overlapping considerations that I can think of - like number or type of chambers in the sump, interfering with linear water flow in the sump, making sure all water gets equal chance of getting processed by all equipment, up or downstream from biofiltration, etc... Just wanted to hear some opinions. All ears here.

[RayAllen]

My reactor will pull from the skimmer chamber and return back into the skimmer chamber which the runs into the fuge and to the return chamber.

[Dominican]

Same if you have more than one reactor? I.e., Calc, Kalk, Phosban, Carbon...

[RayAllen]

yes thats fine. You will not have any troubles running them into the same chamber. Many reefers do the same thing with limited space. I figure it this way- my skimmer chamber is there to serve as filtration so why not run all filtration through that chamber. IMO

[jroescher]

I would think that if you pumped water out of one chamber then returned it to another downstream chamber, you would run the risk of running the first chamber dry.

As long as water is moving through the chambers, you would be getting a fresh supply of water and not a lot of recirculating the same water.

[CoryDude]

As long as water is moving through the chambers, you would be getting a fresh supply of water and not a lot of recirculating the same water.

That echoes my thoughts as well.

[Dominican]

Ok, so I'm hearing a consensus - out/return to same chamber. Probably from and to the skimmer chamber. Right now it'll be calc reactor (and maybe kalk, depending on how much calc brings down my borderline high PH), and then later the same with Phosban/Carbon.

[RayAllen]

yes, you got it.

[Dominican]

K. Thanks for the feedback. :)

[BIGBIRD123]

I agree...