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Sounds good. :D Thank you very much for your help! It has helped me greatly!!

I see.. but it wouldn't need to be a very large fuge like area, right?

I plan on having a protein skimmer in the sump... I may be able to have a small amount of rock rubble in the sump, but must it be lighted? Just probably not alot of room for frags and everything else. lol. I hear alot of people putting Cheato in there... where can you find that stuff? and is...

Is that not how it always is? wouldn't the skimmer be put where the water flows down into the sump? rather than where it goes up? or is it opposite? And I was actually going to ask you what you thought about having some filtering things inside the sump..... of course a filter, bio balls? On a...

Bah!! too many questions. ;) Actually, I have no cluse what size pipes... not even to plumbing yet... but the tank is a Perfecto 75 corner flow... I dont have it yet, untill paycheck comes out... I dont really plan on having a fuge... I will have the skimmer in the overflow chamber.. opposite...

But with a 75gal, I should be okay with overflow and it not flooding, right?

Yes, those are what I'm talking about.... is that good? I've heard you don't need a skimmer until a few months in, is that also correct? I don't want to spend extra money on a skimmer if I can get an economically priced skimmer instead. And I just want to be secure on this... a 20 gal long...

Well, I figured I'd have one of those tubes that seems to have the bubble shape... they tend to be black, and it splits off in two... sorry I can't describe it any better. in-line heater? how so? heh. And a DIY skimmer.... are those any good? What I wouldn't kill for to not have to spend so...

But I can easily have just two pipes running? I see these sumps where there are multiple pipes when there is only two holes coming from the tank.

Okay! I understand much better....Any suggestions on a good pump if not Mag? Now.. any help with plumbing? what I need? heh. That's my next confusion.. well that and lighting, but lighting is a whole nother thread.

What about a 75 gallon wanting to grow soft corals and host anenomes?

Okay, so if I can get a 30 gal I will, but if not, I'll stick with the 20 long, since that should still allow for power outage. But what do you mean by adding in power heads to make up for the sump flow? If I can find a pump to do 600gph with the head included, what would there be to...

would the Mag 9.5 also be okay for a 30 long ? I'm not too sure on the whole plumbing thing, so I wouldn't be to knowledgable with the T off. Plus, I see all these sumps with the plumbing where it has what can only be a shut off valve to close the pipe?

Okay, so I'm going to go with a 75 gallon RR tank with the built in overflow. The overflow is rated at 600gph- My sump will be a 20 gal long since that seems to be deemed appropriate size to take into account in case power goes out and tank drains till the stopping point of the overflow...

I'm not picturing this.... :D The thing is.... the likelihood of me losing power, is slim to none, because I have a backup generator that will power up immediately the whole house. heh. edit: And the tank is now going to be a 75 gallon. It will have a built in overflow with 600gph flow...

I want to keep more of the soft corals and anenome's. I figured it was required to have powerheads... but if not, then I'd have it just flow through the sump. I'm also still debating on a pre drilled aquarium from all-glass or just the HOB overflow...

What's your usual feeding schedule?

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but figured it'd be better to ask then start a new thread. So let's say I have a 55gal and the head total is 54''.... I don't quite understand how you amount to the head total and get the pump size needed and the hob overflow size.... please help me get a...

So the actual HOB overflow will already come with the mechanism and I wont have to create this mechanism? Because figuring out how to create one is confusing me already lol. And I'm assuming that the return tube hangs on the bas as well? like i U shaped connection that hangs on the back...

I have no problem with making my own sump. It's the connecting to the acutal tank that I'm leery about... I figure it's probably easier for me to just get a HOB overflow than to find someone to drill a hole- even though it pobably looks more clean with a drilled hole. I am also curious as to...

That's no fair... :D

So I've decided to do a 55 gallon reef tank. I'm trying to figure this all out before I make the actual purchase of the tank itself. I really want to do a sump or overflow.. or is it both? I am so confused and all that I have read is still confusing me! So I get the whole sump setup, just...

Right.. but do you know where I can order these feet? Like a store?

Sond's good... Now.. I don't know if I quite understand the difference between FO/LR and a Reef tank... on the FO/LR are you only having the rocks? and no corals? Because the 10 gallon looks like it has coral in it.. heh. please de-confuse me. :D

I believe it's 24'' because it's a 20H not Long