I like your chandelier frags/colonies in your smaller tank, we do that to with certain species! They like being suspended and also promotes better growth!
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					Originally Posted by  whatcaneyedo
					 
				 
				For the most part my guts are on display. I use a big 140gal stock trough as a sump and because I just rent this crack shack I'm not able to add some more walls to hide it. I consider everything that I have to be necessary and cost effective to run my reef but obviously others will differ... Okay the stock trough is a little excessive but I love the massive water volume and space! In the picture you can see: 
Skimmer 
Controller 
Media reactors 
Refugium 
Return pump  
ATO  
(frag tank on the left and display tank on the right)
  
Here is why everything sits beside the tank... theres not enough room under the display anymore. 
 
2 Stage Calcium Reactor  
Kalkwasser Reactor 
Battery Backup 
CO2
  
On top the lights hang from the ceiling and you can see how the water returning from the sump is directed through an OM 4-Way wavemaker. 
  
Its all neatly tucked away in the corner of my ghetto basement for now. Most of frankensump was built with the intention of upgrading it to a 50"x36"x24" 250gal in-wall system once we buy a house. The only item not shown in the picture is the RO/DI system which is plumbed to the ATO tank from another room.   
   
			
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