Baffle Material

[Guest clownfish4]

Where and what do you buy for sump baffles? The only material I have seen at Home Depot is that real thin acrylic and it is way to flimbsy in my opinion. Its also impossible to cut...

[Guest eherrmann]

I found some excellant materials at Lowes in the garden section (pond materials)

and the hardware dept.

 

What I used was 2 equal lengths of PVC sliced down the center

Marine quality epoxy to expoxy them in place in sump

2 sheets of glass slid into the slices down the pvc pipe

total cost $9.50

 

This worked perfectly for what I was trying to do

 

Side Note- Be extremely careful cutting the PVC with a table saw, Funny how you gat head of line privelages @ the hospital emergency room when you say "table saw + finger"

 

total cost $1200 :o

[steveoutlaw]

I get my glass cut at a glass shop in Manassas......they even round the 2 bottom corners so it doesn't mess with the silicone on the bottom of an aquarium. They cut mine for $6.00 per baffle.

[flowerseller]

Have you tried www.bafflematerial.com

 

 

 

I've got some black material we can cut up and silicone in place.

You should bring the tank.

[Guest clownfish4]

Chip, would you be able to work off dimensions? The tank is inside the stand of my 125g tank and can't be removed without taking the 125g tank down.

[dbartco]

Mike,

 

I have some clear 1/4" polycarb about 17x18.

 

Too small?

[Guest clownfish4]

Mike,

 

I have some clear 1/4" polycarb about 17x18.

 

Too small?

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Too big! My sump is a 55g tank so 12x21. So the baffles should be just under 12x15ish.

[flowerseller]

Hey Mikey,

The stuff Doug has is nice 1/4" stuff and so is the black stuff I have.

We can cut it to your measurements with the shopsmith.

[Guest clownfish4]

Sounds good Chip, now I just need to come up with a design! :D I am thinking 4 chambers. The first will be the incoming water which will be filled with pads and have space for carbon, etc., that will flow into the skimmer chamber, which will flow into the fuge chamber, which will terminate into the return chamber. Sound good? I noticed that Howard's design with the slanted panels proved to be very effective and widely used...