[Canadian Man]

No confusion at all Doug, Thanks for the ideas!

I mentioned another pump on the closed loop because I have another one allready. Basiclly on my 90g I am running a LG 4mdqxsc on the closed loop. I got the mak 4 for the new tank because it will have a little more power( I hope) and also I need the Lg on the 90g till I make the swithch over in the beggining of July. I am going to fill the 230 soon(no Rasta there is no water in it) add the salt and sand bed and some scoops of sand from the current setup to seed the sand bed. This is why I need the mak 4 so I can have some flow in the 230 while it's cycling/sitting/seeding/aging.

So If I drill another intake then I would just plumb one side of the closed loop with the mak 4 and have nothing on the otherside till I make the switch over at which time I can plumb the lg4 onto the other side of the tank. Make sense? Kinda confusing myself

So I wouldnt nessecarily have to purchase another pump because I have one

You do make a good point though Doug about the power consumption. I don't really mind the look of the Tunze's but I have never seen one in person.

Maybe a good plan would be to just use one pump for the closed loop like I had planned, add the 4 mj powerheads. Once the tank is running and the basement is done I can save up my pennies and purchase a few Tunze's and take out the mj's and add the tunze's.
So at that point I would have the sump return, closed loop and 2 tunze's. That should be plenty of flow for an established sps 230g tank?