[Canadian]

Darren,

You told me to take a look at the design but I thought I'd post what I was thinking here before I forgot.

How tall is that little platform below the 'fuge gonna be? To account for the bulkhead in conjunction with the top plastic molding on the tank your gravity feed is going to be about 2-3" below the top of the plastic molding. In addition to that you're going to have to get the bottom edge of the plumbing over the top edge of the display tank, so the disparity between the 2 is going to be 2-4" roughly.

Also, if you're going to have DSBs in both tanks then you could run that front facing at the same height along the entire bottom of both tanks just to maintain continuity rather than having the side of the 'fuge being higher than the main tank.

And finally, that little section of your sump you have partitioned off with the baffles where your return pump will draw water from is going to be fairly small in volume. You'll need a pretty good top off system to ensure that the fluctuation in volume due to evaporation (especially in the summer) doesn't drop that level too low resulting in your pump sucking air.

Oh, and what kind of light are you gonna have in the sump? Why not forget that and just put them in the 'fuge while they're still small and save on the additional lighting that you would otherwise require to have the mangroves in the sump and macro algae in the 'fuge?

flUOrescent [img]smile.gif[/img] There will be no baking occurring in your tank I hope...not this time at least :D

[ 11 March 2002, 15:18: Message edited by: Canadian ]