The water test was a success. I filled the sump from one side, so that all baffles would have to stand up to maximum water pressure and nothing budged
next, I added a handful of hornwart to see how it would settle in the water flow.
here I used 2 X Rio 2100's rated at 600+ GPH each. The final display will have two Mag 9.5's, but with the rise of the plumbing the flow should be comparable.
as you can see from the next picture the plants are almost falling over the last baffle so I needed some sort of strainer.
I want to keep the costs from getting crazy so I used something I had on hand. What I found was an old piece of plastic from the backside of a glass top. I drilled a honeycomb pattern in the plastic.
being made for glass tops, the piece fit perfectly on the glass baffle
Ill let in run over night, to see how it holds up.