So this has been in the works for a while. I've had my 40b set up for over 5 years now and it is busting at the seams. The wife is completely opposed to a larger tank in the house so the compromise is a frag tank in the garage.
So the plan is this. The current setup is a 40 gallon display with plumbing through the wall to a 20 gallon sump in the garage. I'm going to upgrade the sump to a 40 breeder and then put another 40 breeder on a stand above the new sump.
Pic of the display tank.
So this is how the original sump was set up. It lived on the bottom self if our garage pantry storage. The storage shelves and food are being relocated to a different wall. Tried to draw kinda how the plumbing goes and where the display is.
I picked up a shop table off Amazon that is supposed to have a 2000lb capacity, I won't be even 1/4 that so I'm feeling pretty good about the table.
I'm a budget diy, simple sump kinda guy. All I need is a sock champer, main chamber, return chamber, no fancy over under baffles. I had some sheets of thin acrylic that I liberated from the dump at work and this is my first fail. It worked great on my 20 gallon sump to simply flex the acrylic for added rigidity and glue it real good. Trying that on the 40 though it failed on the first fill attempt. So the old sump went back in place and I had to buy thicker acrylic and redo the baffles.
Took a lot longer than I hoped but I've got the sump and stand in place.
So the plan is this. The current setup is a 40 gallon display with plumbing through the wall to a 20 gallon sump in the garage. I'm going to upgrade the sump to a 40 breeder and then put another 40 breeder on a stand above the new sump.
Pic of the display tank.
So this is how the original sump was set up. It lived on the bottom self if our garage pantry storage. The storage shelves and food are being relocated to a different wall. Tried to draw kinda how the plumbing goes and where the display is.
I picked up a shop table off Amazon that is supposed to have a 2000lb capacity, I won't be even 1/4 that so I'm feeling pretty good about the table.
I'm a budget diy, simple sump kinda guy. All I need is a sock champer, main chamber, return chamber, no fancy over under baffles. I had some sheets of thin acrylic that I liberated from the dump at work and this is my first fail. It worked great on my 20 gallon sump to simply flex the acrylic for added rigidity and glue it real good. Trying that on the 40 though it failed on the first fill attempt. So the old sump went back in place and I had to buy thicker acrylic and redo the baffles.
Took a lot longer than I hoped but I've got the sump and stand in place.
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