Edit

[oredith]

FYI, you want a gate valve, not a ball valve.

while you can technically control volume of flow with a ball valve, the range of adjustment will be very limited, and difficult to tune.

 

[Adrock]

I find gate valves are difficult to tune lol and ball valves are easy to do maintenance and or repair if needed funny its the opposite of what you feel lol

 

[KarL]

You can convert this into a shallow refugium box or use an algae scrubber. Can have it sit on top of sump.

 

[Gnarly]

Edit

 

[Gnarly]

So I ended up not putting in a refugium and just used a sump. If you guys want pics tommorow I'll post it but I'm thinking of just using 2 hamg on refugiums on the sides and leave space for a chiller when winter ends and possibly a double sump (prolly not though).

 

[Gnarly]

Idk if anyone is following through with this thread but.. I have a quarantine/macro/pod 10G(basically a refugium but not connected to a main tank) and wondering what the best way to scoop out pods to my main tank in the future? I was thinking of fine mesh but my LFS advised on just using a siphon feeder.

Opinions appreciated

 

[oredith]

 

[pirate2876]

I had a few restrictions on size of sump and having a refugium as well. I ended up using a HOB fuge from CPR. Seems to work fine. I wasn't intending to use the return coming out of the overflow box anyways, so it served a good purpose here.

 

[Gnarly]

Edit

 

[pirate2876]

My sump. I just have it hanging on the back fed from the overflow. Works great, except for the splash from the return. If I would I would mount the return from the Fuge with some sort of pipe or plastic for the water to fall directly onto.

 

[Reef Finders]

Looks good.