how big of a sump will i need

[yanke]

hi

putting up a new fish room (getting a new house)

and I will be running 7-4x18x18 and 4-2x18x18 on some pallet racking

how big of a sump will I need for that (I want to run sump on them)

I like to put 4-4x18x18 on 1 sump

and 4-2x18x18 and 2-4x18x18 on the other sump

that's on 1 wall for the garage

I have 2-6ft on the other wall and a 4ft and 3ft and some more 2x12x12 also

thanks

[Chuckmeister]

My general rule for sumps is to measure the place you want to put it and put in the biggest sump that will fit. Even if you cant fill it with media at the time you still have space to add in the future.

For the first 2 I'd probably put on a 4x18 sump and fill any other space with 2 foot fry tanks and run the fry tanks of air filters (I assume they will be at ground level)

And good luck with the fish room. All this talk makes me think about setting up another

[Link2Hell]

Paul

the one thing you have to take into account with a sump is power outages

have enough room above your plates so it doesn't overflow from the back

flush of a power failure

[yanke]

yes I know

that's the thing I don't want it to overflow when the power go's out

or when I have to turn it off to clean it out

I like to put 4 of the tanks on one sump

I can get a sump that's 120x40x40 it has 2 spinning arms to it

but maxed out it will hold about 190L.

I am having holes drilled in the back top about 10mm down

if I am doing right that's about 180L. for the 4 tanks when off

that's not counting the water in the sump when its running

the sump it going to cost about $800 with all the stuff I need for the in side

if it didn't cost so much I put 2 tanks on 1 sump but then ill need 4 sumps

so I am trying to keep the cost down

with the tanks and the racking and the sumps its going to be about $5000

to set it all up

(the wife will not be happy with that) lol

but then its my money that I have saved up

[Chuckmeister]

have you considered putting in side drop filters. You lose a little real estate inside the tank but you can run the whole lot of your tanks on an air pump. It solves your return water issue. it isolates each tank in case you ever have a tank crash or water problems. Easy quarantine.Cheap to run. And you would get all your tanks done for 800 bucks and have change left over.

It also gives you room on the ground level to put fry tanks or something because once you start breeding you'll need it