I'm considering turning a standard 125g into a marine paludarium, with a faux back wall for various plants (I'm still working out how to keep salt creep to a minimum) including mangroves, possibly. Corals in the lagoon beneath.
The tank is second-hand and comes with an ESHOPPS sump and an overflow. If I lowered the water level to about half, could I simply put a pump in the tank, plug it into PVC or some other tubing, and run that to the overflow area and down into the sump? And do a similar thing with the return: extending the PVC/tubing from the return pump in the sump down into the tank's saltwater section? I imagine I could hide both extended in-tank PVC connections with fake rock.
Will this cause any problems? Has anyone done anything similar?
The tank is second-hand and comes with an ESHOPPS sump and an overflow. If I lowered the water level to about half, could I simply put a pump in the tank, plug it into PVC or some other tubing, and run that to the overflow area and down into the sump? And do a similar thing with the return: extending the PVC/tubing from the return pump in the sump down into the tank's saltwater section? I imagine I could hide both extended in-tank PVC connections with fake rock.
Will this cause any problems? Has anyone done anything similar?