Plumbing

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As most of you know, after adding a sump to my existing tank, my only SPS is dying, and now my frogspawn is looking very unhappy. Someone just told me that I should have let my PVC glue joints cure for 48 hours before adding them to the system. Since I had to make several of the joints in place, I only gave them a couple hours. Could that be what's poisoning my corals?

At long last my tank has a sump!

the sump is a 20 tall tank, with 3 baffles forming a bubble trap. This gives me a 2 section sump, equipment and return. I'm not planning to use this for a refugium. My original plan was to add a refugium as a separate tank above the sump, but now I think I'll try a turf scrubber first and see if that does the trick. Now for pictures.

First I mocked up the system in the shop using an old 29 gal and stand. It ran like this for several ...

I'm getting ready to add a sump to my tank this weekend (I'll have a separate blog for that operation) and currently have the system mocked up in my shop using an old 29. The eshoppes nano overflow box is really noisy. If I run my pump wide open it burps and slurps. If I add the pre-filter sponge over the outlet that quiets things down considerably, but with the alage problems I've had I'm afraid it'll clog up frequently. There's no room for a Durso style overflow, the box isn't wide enough. ...