just a noob giving his two cents worth but if your wanting to be able to remove the sumps for some reason why don't you run two connected with a 2 inch pipe for leveling purposes that's what i did and i have a refugium in one sump and in the other i have the mixing chamber and the protein skimmer chamber and i still have room for a 22 watt lifeguard UV sterilizer on the end

also another idea is to run an external protein skimmer that way you don't hasve to worry about a skimmer section in your sump and just run it in you water out line that way you can have a bigger fuge which i would never go without and still havew alots of room for other things like calcium reactors ATO section mixing chamber and other things.

PS: i have a tank with the exact dimensions of yours and mines a perfecto corner overflow i don't know what yours is but i run the same dimensions and i run two sumps connected with some pvc

Thanks for the input =)

My plan is to have a sump on the left to hold my skimmer, heaters and pumps and two seperate tanks on the right. One will be the fuge and the other will be my ATO reservoir and my new SW mixing tank.

This sounds similar to what you're talking about. Do you have a thread?

no but i should start one on the build of my tank unfortunately back when i started my tank al i had access to was two megaflow 3 sumps but im going to build my own sumps once i get a router and acrylic because iver done it before but i had it under my 90 gallon and i sold it when i switched the ninety over to freshwater i will start a thread on my tank build

Look forward to it!

And holy cow...say what you just wrote in one breath lol...

i have big lungs lol i have no time for punctuation

You can barely see the 1" drain opening in the back right. The idea is that any mishaps drain directly to the basement.

Just wondering, Is your tank located on a upper floor with a basement under. Thinking about the weight of the tank.

yes the tank is in my main floor livingroom.

I had the builder pour an 8 x 3 concrete footing in the earth and change the two 2x10 laminated beams to FIVE 2 x 14 laminated beams. I then added my own jackposts on top of the footing about 2.5 feet from the beams. so my tank is supported directly under the front and back.

I had the engineers re-enforce for a 500 gallon tank as overkill. In the end the footing was not needed so I added jackposts to add more stability so the footing would not be wasted.

Here's the footing:

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/build/footing.jpg

Here's the beams:

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/build/beams.jpg

This will be a cool tank, I helped setup a display tank at Bayside Corals here in Saskatoon. Very similar, same dimensions, controller, tunze setup, uses BK skimmer and so on. Only picture I have is after initial setup, if you're in the city sometime you should check it out. Super nice tank with all the goodies we all can only dream about.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/display2.jpg