55 gallon acrylic sump

[n2b8u]

I decided to model a large sump after the ecosystem miracle mud sump. Found some plans on the net and once I had acquired some acrylic which was 1/2 inch thick. I know that 1/2 inch is crazy but when you get free acrylic beggers cant be choosers. I learned alot about working with acrylic doing this project. I only had 1 leak and patched it with some scrap pieces of acrylic.

 

[Hawkman2000]

Very cool.

Btw, free acrylic, super cool.

 

[ezrk]

I am concerned about the full height baffles you have on both sides of the sump. The sump shouldn't be full in normal operation and I would want to create some alternative water bath in case either of baffle path became clogged/slow/whaterver. As it stands now it will overflow the sump if that happens I think.

You could just drill a couple of biggish holes at the top of each baffle as a failsafe without too much trouble I believe.