good idea. i think im going to leave the skimmer in the DT though. The heater may or may not go in the sump too. I have everything connected and tested to see what would happen if there was a power outage everything was fine. when I went to plug my pump back in it wasnt working. The impeller snapped. POS pump. I can fix it, but I dont want to risk it happening again. I may just have to take the plunge and buy a mag 7. Now, I noticed that the pump was pushing too much water back to the DT, or using my eshopps ph-800 it wasnt draining quick enough. I'm not using pvc, so I assume I cant use a ball valve for the return? Or can i? I set up 2 sections, 1 for drain/sock/macro algae and the 2nd for return. ill post a pic