Could be BRS getting exclusivity as a distributor.
I did inquire and it's not necessarily that, it just seems that they're the only one who sell the Sumps alone. People buy their tanks that come with sumps that come in shipping crates and much better protected. I'm fairly certain other sites sell their full tank set ups
I agree. I bought a trigger blemished sump direct from trigger and it came extremely well packaged and undamaged.
I love triggers sumps, but something like that is a great option if I don't have time to make one, but aside from the newer models they're pretty simple sumps. Nothing wrong with that actually makes them a lot easier for modification, but in a particular scenario I'm in I've been requested something with a large built-in ATO and a adjustable baffle parallel to the normal direction of water flow left to right or right to left meaning the center chamber is split and the sump itself has to be wider. I just don't have a ton of experience with the kind of picture frame style aesthetic that AF and reef octo use either. I have a pretty good idea of how to do it and have done similar things before but if it's not going to happen it's not going to happen. And that's that. The original plan was to have 2 afrs probably Clarisea, as I've had the most experience working with modifications on those then naturally area for a large skimmer and reactor but I'll probably make the sump itself smaller and make use of external reactors like an algae reactor instead of refugium and so on. I'll have to dig through all the Samsung collected over the past. I know I have a few trigger systems but they're older models like the crystal I believe are 14 in from front to back which limits availability for fitting to afrs and larger equipment.
I actually spoke with BRS and they did mention how well trigger systems packages their sumps I sent them a picture of the second broken 980 with the same packaging layed out and I think I finally got a hold of someone who realized what a problem that was and said they would keep the photo and contact AF if issues persist. Naturally I declined them sending out another one. They don't keep packaging materials beyond tape and peanuts in their warehouse as large items are meant to be received ready to ship. I believe the way they ship things in Europe is a bit different as well as something like this would normally be paletized in transport over there. Beyond that none of the sumps have reviews so I feel as if they actually don't sell a lot of them if any at all and may not be aware of the issue.
