My new sump design

[jhampton_wsu]

I see, was your friends pump in sump or outside? It looks like there is just a pipe under the egg crate. Did you plan on having no snails inside the fuge or did you just plan on larger ones?

 

[kgross]

Hes is an external pump, but you could do the same basic thing with a submersible pump, just rather than the egg crate box over the pipe, put in a full egg crate baffle.

To keep the smaller snails out of the pump, have a strainer on the pump. A baffle will not stop snails, they will crawl over them without any problems.

Kim

 

[jhampton_wsu]

Thanks Kim I think I may use an egg crate baffle or drill holes in a pice of acrylic. I also want to again thank Duane. Thanks again for letting me come by and check out your system. Any further advice you have on this project will be appreciated. I also may call on you regarding some plumbing issues like where to place my gate valves and such.

 

[jhampton_wsu]

Last night I cut the Euro Brace off my 55. I used an acrylic cutter and scored it as deep as I could and then I broke the pieces off. It didn't go as good as I'd hoped but the few jaged edges at the top are manageable. On the plumbing side of things I think I have it figured out. Here it goes: I currently have two bulk heads one @ 1.5" with a 1.25" barbed fitting and one at 1" with a .75" barbed fitting, I bought two barbed-threaded couplers. I plan to cut my poly hose and use these as couplers from the poly to the spa-flex which I'll use going to the wall where I'll switch to rigid pvc. So I'll have a 1.5" main drain and a .75" back up drain both pipes will run down 6' run run horizontially 20 feet and then 90 back up about 2-3 feet. I hope this works. For my current return line I use the .75" poly. I don't see any reason to go bigger than 3/4 for the long run, so I plan to follow the same path as the drains with rigid pvc and hook into my current lock line returns if possible. I know this isn't as sexy a thread as a tank build but I really appreciate any input.

Jason