Sump chamber order question.

[koa25]

I have a tone of critters in my fuge and run a sock. I don't have any issues. My water cleared up greatly once i started running a sock. critters haven't suffered at all. I ran my drain into straight rubble on my 125 for the longest time. then started doing polyfill to polish the water and it really cleared it up. still had a ton of pods and stars and worms and such. The corner i just setup doesn't have a fuge which i am less than excited about. But will adapt. The sump is still stuffed to the brim with rubble. just no DSB or macro.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

The sock is supposed to clean the sw. It catches everything. We can agree to disagree. I dont use them.

[koa25]

Heck, I am just trying to get my info straight. If it will make the water healthier i will take it out and deal with a little debris floating around in my DT. Wasn't saying you're wrong. Not at all. Just supplying info. But agree to disgree. I do see your point.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

All in good fun. Its nice to hear different perspectives. Some still think MH is better than LED.

[koa25]

*cough cough*.... yep... agree to disagree. ha ha.

[350gt]

MH is better..... Led is getting there though...


I don't use filter sock and my sump is filthy, I hate it... But then I hated dealing with socks when I did run them.

eitherway my sump from left to right is:

1. LR rubble
2. Bubble trap
3.poly filter with more rubble under neath
4. Last chamber with skimmer, return, uv pump, and reactor pump.

like I said I hated dealing with socks. I hope to soon add a plate with poly filter to cleanse the water before hitting the first chamber..... My sump is filthy and I know it's not good for all that junk to be sitting on the bottom of the first chamber..... But that's the way it's been for 2 years with little to no issues.....

[Louis-210]

All in good fun. . Some still think MH is better than LED.

I love these convos! ha

[koa25]

MH is better..... Led is getting there though...

Ha ha. I was going to leave it alone lol. Didn't want to start something that would cause a thread jack. lol

It is nice to have that extra mechanism to clean up and polish the water that much better. I was replacing the polyfill on my 125 weekly and it would get pretty gritty in a weeks time. If i didn't have that there my rubble would have been sitting in all that gunk. Seems like a easy place for bad stuff to build up.

[350gt]

Ya the thing is there is nothing polishing my water before it enters the 1st chamber filled with rubble, so it's a haven for junk.....

but it goes to show it still works for me.....

I have crazy amounts of pods on my LR in the DT at night, rocks look alive....


the mh thing is cool, I'm a fan of both for different reasons.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

Thats why you put the skimmer in the 1st chamber. Now there is no haven and move the sw so nothing sits and nothing accumulates.Feed that through as many bafffles as you can put in separate that into 1 inch separation fill with LR rubble. The more baffles the better. Refugium should gather the rest with shrimp, pods, sand, LR, etc . . .. Than polish for next chamber maybe carbon reactor or carbon in a sock. Than send back to display. woollaaa nice and pretty

Add some 65k LEDs and grow some macro in the refugium