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Need to condense down my tanks this year to prepare for an end of year move so I'm getting started now. I've picked up 2 divided D40cm W48cm L50cm tanks pre-prilled with weirs and a 2.5ft sump with trickle tower. Aim to plumb these and the mr aqua cube all together. These two and my shrimp display tank will unfortunately be my only tanks come december but at least I'll be able to breed nice shrimp and keep a nice display. Perhaps two......if I can convince my girl.

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After consideration I think I'll be removing the weir in these tanks. They take up too much room, serve almost no purpose and they're going to be difficult to shrimplet proof. Can anyone thing of a reason not to do this ?

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Cool I'll go ahead and remove the weirs tomorrow am. I set up the shelves I'll be using and upgraded the the shelf that the tanks will be sitting on as well as drilling in the overflow holes though so tomorrow I'll be removing weirs, fixing any silicone work, setting it up in-place and plumbing it all together ! Big day !!

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Busy morning so far. Removed the weirs which makes that right compartment much more spacious and set the rack up in my study. Its very bare bones at the moment but you get the idea.

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After looking at the sump volume and space it was going to take I decided it was a pretty big overkill and decided to go with a smaller sump I had laying about. This one is 45 cubed with a full volume of about 76 litres. The total tank volume is 172 litres giving me a total system volume of 248 litres. I plan on adding one more tank to this system later of a similar size which will end up giving me the 30% sump volume that is recommended.

Here's a couple of questions I have for someone with experience. What flow rate would recommend into each of these tanks and would you recommend 1 output in each tank or 1 output in each section

The glass separator has 2 x 25mm holes drilled for waterflow between chambers. Here it is all sitting on the rack

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Fantastic work. Ratio of tank:sump volume great. 5+ turnover an hour and separate outflow (preferably spray bars) on each individual tanks with taps would be ideal. Spraybars are great from surface agitation and reaches are wider area for water movement throughout the tank. The taps on each outflow is to control the volume, and when required, can be turned off for tank isolation. IMO...

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Thanks guys. I'll go for 4 returns with spraybars. I'll have a dig tonight and find the parts, in the meantime I'll rig it up with 2 returns just outflows so I can get it cycling and upgrade when the bits and bobs come in the mail. This arvo I got the bulkeads and overflows in and leak tested, meshed the holes running between the sections so shrimplets can't get mixed up and built a little meshed overflow protector from an endcap to keep them from getting sucked into overflow.

Also got the return line started but I'm not happy with it and totally knackered from my day so going to take a break work on it later tonight or tomorrow

PS sorry about the crooked pic but my study is pretty small and its hard to get far enough back to get it all in frame lol.

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