20 Gallon reef

[Canuckgod420]

Originally Posted by Diana

A little overflow area would work, you would be loosing valuable tank space tho.

You could try to rig some sort of surface skimmer attachment onto some HOB filter, such as an aquaclear, and fill it with filter floss and carbon. If you get a big enough one you could even partition it, light it, and have a little fuge in there. I've seen like a tube that comes off the intake at a right angle and then goes directly up to the surface, with a little cage at the top to prevent fish getting in. This pulls water off the surface. But then also have the regular opening at the bottom of the intake as well incase the water level in the tank drops your filter wont run dry.

I have actually done that before on a freshwater tank once....it worked allright I guess, dont know whatever happened to it though...lol

I was thinking if I built some sort of overflow chamber on one end then I could have a decent little return pump(not 1/3hp monster lol) to create the flow(so no powerheads),
and the heater could be in there as well, and because the light would overhang it, I could grow some chaeto in there.

I got some black acrylic today and had it cut to size.
So the question is then, do i notch overflow teeth all the way across? Or just a shorter section on one end? Will this make alot of splashing noise going over? Arghh so many damn questions...lol