Well once I am up and running, I'll take you up on that! ;)

Yeah, I need to think about my sump, I realised that it was tight when I started looking at the plumbing. Being in a rental suite, I wanted one mainly for backup in case any equipment leaked. There will be some redundancies built in :)
I think I am going to try and drop the lower section (advantage of building it yourself) I have the height on sump I do because it was free :)

Tank up and running
 

Well I got the tank up and running, the dry rock and live rock in there and looks like it's diatoming it up!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7hKtUMpiJ7...0/DSC_0533.JPG

I also lowered the supports on the bottom and so the 50gal might still work for the sump. For now I have a temp sump that is just a bin to give me time to think through the sump and design it the way I want!

Tank
 

Looking good, can't wait to see it stocked up.

Me too ;)

are you going bare bottom?

only when I sleep... :wink:

bare bottom
 

I don't think so, it looks too weird to me, but I was told that cycling with a bare bottom is ideal, so I'm giving it a go.