I fused together two acrylic hob filters to make a sump across the back of my 12 gallon long tank. It's been a successful project thus far, freeing up space for more trays. It's running 80gph and has 12 compartments.
So far I'm running the following compartments:
Cheato x4 (with tiny mangrove)
Live rock x3 (slowly removing all of it)
Bio rings x1 (will eventually replace need for rock)
GFO/Purigen x1 (love that it's reusable)
Poly x1
I currently have 2 open and will have 5 open when my bio rings are established. Probably 6 open after going down to 3 cheato.
Some of my current thoughts:
Add uv sterilizer
Run a ton of purigen
attempt a calc reactor
possibly run carbon or chem-pure
I'd like to gather creative ideas for optimization. Perhaps you'd set it up completely different or have an idea of something I should add. My goal is to grow corals in addition to filtration.
![C2502930-7843-42E4-A229-E638EE9631C4.jpeg C2502930-7843-42E4-A229-E638EE9631C4.jpeg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/2931/2931857-e51a907fd41afa4236f3ca98e331149b.jpg)
So far I'm running the following compartments:
Cheato x4 (with tiny mangrove)
Live rock x3 (slowly removing all of it)
Bio rings x1 (will eventually replace need for rock)
GFO/Purigen x1 (love that it's reusable)
Poly x1
I currently have 2 open and will have 5 open when my bio rings are established. Probably 6 open after going down to 3 cheato.
Some of my current thoughts:
Add uv sterilizer
Run a ton of purigen
attempt a calc reactor
possibly run carbon or chem-pure
I'd like to gather creative ideas for optimization. Perhaps you'd set it up completely different or have an idea of something I should add. My goal is to grow corals in addition to filtration.
![996EC5DC-19C6-4564-B9F3-31AAA8E72C5F.jpeg 996EC5DC-19C6-4564-B9F3-31AAA8E72C5F.jpeg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/2931/2931842-c9ea50e30437963ea45eaf18df5a9f7b.jpg)
![81DDC987-DA2B-485C-B63D-8DE322A4D82F.jpeg 81DDC987-DA2B-485C-B63D-8DE322A4D82F.jpeg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/2931/2931843-098f56644bcafd3865ec03faeb259c5b.jpg)
![C2502930-7843-42E4-A229-E638EE9631C4.jpeg C2502930-7843-42E4-A229-E638EE9631C4.jpeg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/2931/2931857-e51a907fd41afa4236f3ca98e331149b.jpg)
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