I recently purchased a 100g tank. It came with a sump, some various piping, a eheim pump, some chemicals foods, hydrometer, heater and a ton of live rock. I have the live rock curing in the rubbermaid as shown below.
I'm curious though, before building the stand for the tank I need to design the connections. I'm not going to drill it, to worried about it cracking. But the sump as shown is confusing as how the person had it setup. You can see the bioballs on the left side of it. Then another plastic container of bioballs, with a pvp pipe connection on top. Then on top of the tank picture there is some sort of waterflow device.
What I'm assuming is, he had bioballs in both sides of the sump. Maybe some live rock in the center. Then the plastic box sat over the edge of the tank, and the pump was in the sump feeding it up. and through that waterflow.
I'm not sure if I want to head that direction since I'll be installing a protein skimmer on the right side of the sump. Leaving the bioballs in some way, and creating a water return but I'm not sure how I'll be doing it all. Also when operating a protein skimmer does it have an external pump, or does the protein skimmer have everything self contained?
Connecting my sump to the tank.
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