Crazy Notion: BakPak as a skimmer/overflow

[juke]

I have been trying to come up with a good way to get an overflow on a NanoCube 24DX. I am building a custom hood that will allow be to place a bakpak on the back of the tank and had a thought...

Could I place a bulkhead on the skimmer to drop to a sump/refuge and pump back up to the 3rd chamber on the tank? I don't see this causing any problem with the skimming of the bakpak if I set the bulkhead in the return chamber about the height of the return arm.

Is this crazy? Has anyone tried this? Any concerns?

 

[wrightme43]

I will have to think on it before I can answer that. Good idea.

 

[Llarian]

The Bakpak pumps water into itself, doesn't it? If that's the case, you run into pump balancing problems with returning the water to the tank, which doesn't work.

If it uses a siphon based overflow, then that should work up to the limits of the U-tube, but I'm pretty sure its a pump.

-Dylan

 

[mungus]

I am thinking along the same lines as Dylan. The bak pak would be using a pump to fill it and skim thus the amount of water draining from the skimmer would be equal to the amount of water the pump was pumping. You would have to have a pump in your sump pumping the water back to the tank. I think it would be a nightmare trying to balance both of the pumps. Could lead to many a wet floor.:lol:

JMO

Brian

 

[liveforphysics]

It certianly COULD be done, but I personally belive it would be easier to make a quicky standpipe.

The flow balenceing would be very tricky/unreliable.

 

[NaH2O]

I have a 12 gallon Nanocube DX, and I am also planning on adding a sump. I haven't figured out how to do the plumbing for it yet, but figured a standpipe is a must, just don't know where to put it because of the baffling in the back?

Also, have you seen this site? Nanotuners...they have little surface skimmers, and other things small, just for nano tanks. I was looking at tiny chillers there.