试图为新的或现有的珊瑚礁储罐大小设备尺寸的礁石水产师的一个常见问题是，它不仅可以适合污水池，而且还可以添加或从污水处理室居住的地方添加或去除里面水族馆摊。我们几乎所有人都想使用最大的撇渣器，如果不受预算的限制或污水处理量的大小，则清除进入水箱通常是在水族馆设置中使用撇油器多大的瓶颈。
This problem of fitting a bigger skimmer inside a sump is one that is more often encountered in existing aquarium setups where the sump, tank and stand are tied with lots of plumbing and an aquarium that is full of life and water. For years we’ve dreamt of a seemingly simple solution to have a removable partition on the business-end of the sump which would allow for the addition and removal of even larger protein skimmer bodies.
与当地丙烯酸水族馆和设备制造商进行了长时间的对话后，Fluid Designers, a plan was hatched to build the first convertible Transformer Sump to specifications which would allow us to test ever larger protein skimmers on a 150 gallon saltwater fish aquarium, starting with the Vertex Alpha 250 protein skimmer. As with the previous sump, the acrylic box would be a very simple Berlin Method reef sump with just a filter sock on one end, a stable water level section in which to place the protein skimmer, and a variable water level area for the return pump.
Historically, an acrylic sump is a basic rectangular box with reinforced rim to prevent bending or bowing of the flexible material. The challenge in building and designing the Transformer Sump was in coming up with a way to take a “bite” out of this basic design and reinforce it to prevent any deformation as well as creating a method for reattaching the “missing” piece back into place to preserve the overall working volume of the sump.
We explained our requirements toFluid Designers水池里我们与可用的维度uld fit and handed off the creation of the Transformer Sump to their capable acrylic-smiths. What they returned is a beautiful black bottomed sump with a perfect five-inch wide removable section that is reinforced with bracing, and tapped for ten nylon screws to reattach to the sump wall.
The difference between the “standard” clearance between the sump and the bottom edge of the stand above it is precisely what we needed to fit the massive Vertex Alpha 250 with a base more than 10 inches in diameter and just over 24 inches tall. It is quite a frustration to have a sump that is身体上large enough to fit a very large protein skimmer body and base but placed in a stand without the necessary clearance to actually have said larger skimmer placed inside of it.
借助流体设计师的新变压器底漆，我们已经能够超越陷入困境的限制。希望将来会像变压器一样制造更多的污泥，以便在水族馆未来中升级到更大的蛋白质撇油器将不再是一个问题。
