CaptainRon

That thing looks wild Marco. Put me on the list for a clone when they become available.

I think that's what I'm going to do Dave (instead of the way I said I was going to do it). Siphon and trickle on the right hand side (visible), return and emergency on the left hand side (not visible). I'll also stick a powerhead and a small length of tubing in the left hand side just to keep some flow in that box and not let that column of water get stagnant.

Ideally, I'd have liked to do something like you're currently doing on your build - but I have no room behind the tank. Pulling the overflows out would have been easy I agree, I've done it before. But I just didn't really know what else I'd do because of my space limitation. I probably should have gone with a 30 or even 24 inch wide tank, but I got sucked in and shoe-horned in the 36 inch wide tank into the corner Here's a picture of what I was talking about with adding an "L" to connect the two overflows. It's from this thread on reefcentral. I just don't know if I really need to do that. I've seen where BeanAnimal recomended installing the siphon and trickle in one box and the return and emergency in the other box. He even recomended making the box with the return and emergency a deep sandbed. But I'm thinking about switching it up a little since I have one box that I'll never be able to really see. It would seem to me that keeping the siphon visible would be critical - I was thinking about putting the siphon and return in the right side box (visible) and the trickle and emergency in the other corner box (not visible) along with dropping in a powerhead.

I've thought about that Dave. I've done a little reading on what other folks have done with dual overflows and it ranges from doing nothing to installing a small coast to coast inside the tank to connect the two overflows. I've thought about doing several things: 1 - Installing an "L" made out of acrylic and connecting the two overflows after cutting out a corner in the overflows. 2- Installing a piece of 1" pvc, painted black or blue, to connect the two overflows (Or whatever size PVC can fit in the existing holes for the return lines) 3 - Doing nothing and just dropping a powerhead in the overflow that'll have very very low flow in it. I don't think water will flow equally into both overflows. Water will go to were the flow is. It seems like the bean animal design will have to have three different heights for the drain lines. Lowest for the siphon, middle for the trickle and highest for the emergency - I'm just not sure what those implecations are. I think I may give the bean animal design a try with the two separate overflows and see what happens. It'll either be a great success or my first post after installing it will be about the flood in my fish "room" lol

I don't have any pictures just now, but I can report that algae is growing in the tank. I stucks a couple poylps of zoas and a broken piece of hydnophora in the 200 to see if they's die right away or not (they didn't) so had been running lights for a bit everyday I haven't built the sump yet so don't even have the overflows running. Hopefully the pieces for the sump will come be available this weekend and I can get the sump built on Saturday. With any luck, plumbing and hole in the wall will start on Sunday. Realistically, I expect to have a wet sump the weekend of 3/23-3/24. At least I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that that date doesn't slip

Payment sent for 4 boxes from mx5_2000@hotmail.com Thanks!

Look at how much weight you're actually going to support. 4 EA 2x4's is more than enought to hold up your water. Scott, I'd build it just like the stand for the 93, minus the bottom ring. Build it like that and you'll be able to support far more water than you could ever fit on top of it.

Lol Neil. No worries at all

I saw another thread someplace about those containers - I saw there's the single and this multi-container as well as different sizes of single containers. Neat stuff.

Here you go Eric.

Judging by all the white space, it looks like it's a very open structure.

The stirrer motor I keep on 24-7. I also let the topoff pump run whenever it needs to, mostly. The topoff pump is controlled by both the topoff switch, and the Apex. The apex will let the pump run for 5 minutes out of every 15 minutes, or something like that. Some folks will also limit the time when the topoff pump runs based on the pH of the tank too. Edit to add: The topoff switch also limits when the topoff pump can run - kind of acts like the float switch Jason referenced.

Yeah, that's the one. I use it in conjuction with the Avast topoff kit connected to my Apex. The water that gets pumped into the stirrer get pumped towards the bottom of the stirrer.The picture below is from Avast's site... just to the left of the stirrer rod is a clear "straw." That straw makes the new RODI water go to the bottom of the stirrer. I've read in my books that you don't really want the slurrey to go into the water - just the supersaturated kalk solution - and that's what you get at the top of the stirrer. It's hard for me to explain properly. I hope I helped a little bit

Where are you located? Would be easier to show you. Basically you just run your topoff water through the kalk stirrer. You want it to go slowly because the kalk water has a very high ph. I use a bulk reef supply topoff pump to draw fresh rodi water from a bucket, through the pump and into the kalk stirrer. Gravity does the rest - the saturated kalk water slowly comes out of the top of the stirrer into the tank as fresh water is pumped into the bottom of the stirrer.

I don't know how/if you're keeping track, but the four boxes I requested would be for IO. I just noticed that I posted right after your RC post But I use IO - Thanks!

Bump me up to four boxes, please. Thanks!

I'll get a couple boxes at that price.

There's no room between the back wall of the tank and the wall that the tank is up against - everything is going to have to go through the four holes in the overflow.

Something like that Haywood So I guess my drawings were either horrible or the design was perfect! I made a slight revision increasing the size of the drain box, but I'm basically going with my sump design as pictured. On to overflows.... The tank has two overflows with 2 EA 1" holes in each overflow. The way I see it, I could have 1 durso and one return in each overflow or create a quasi-bean animal with the two overflows. My wife has her craft area in that same area as the sump so I'd like to control noise as much as possible. With my sump design, i'm creating an enclosed box for the drain lines to enter the sump so I'd think I could control noise a lot with that. And a durso is such an easy setup to put in place, I'm thinking of just going that way. But I can't help but think about doing a bean animal - I think I'd pace the emergency dry line and constant trickle lines in left overflow and the return and full siphon overflow in the right hand overflow. I guess the only real concern with this is the left side overflow being dead with such a small amount of flow through it. The only thing I've thought of so far to "fix" that would be to put a small powerhead in there and blow some water back out into the tank. I guess I'll have to make that decision soon - I'm getting antsy about getting the tank filled up with my critters

Yeah, one system is enough. I kinda have four kids. One human, 3 fur

Remember this quote... In 6 months you're going to be saying... this tank is SO SMALL!!!

Upload to photobucket or something similar and just post the links. And hurry, I'd like to see the photos

Good living pays off!

Good deal on the sand. I'm going to have to try that on mine next time I put a pump in the sump. Tank looks awsome.

Plug the holes in the elbows with some two part epoxy and redrill the holes in the black lock line that's inside the tank. If I understood everything correctly, that will do the trick. Just need to pay attention to where you drill the new holes - you don't want them too deep as that could allow too much water to siphon back into your sump. You'll also want to make sure your sump can contain any siphone from the main tank if the power goes out. Good luck