Box Skimmer Design

[Chin_Lee]

After looking at the large footprints of the ASM skimmers, i started to think of a way to save on height space. So I started thinking of a square shaped skimmer with baffles within to direct the bubbles upwards while increasing contact time between water and bubbles. The following design should allow an equivalent of a 5 feet high circular tube skimmer into a 2 feet high box. The top is still the beckett design because I already have the parts. The design is as follows:
1) Three holes at the bottom which can incorporate 2-3 pumps. Options are for one pump can be an intake from sump or tank, one or two pumps can be recirculating. If you use recir and to save space, one can put plumb a pipe to the rear chamber where the water is returning to tank.
2) the bubble rise to the top and into the circular chamber. Water and bubbles will folow into the rear large chamber and down to the bottom. As this happens, micro bubbles will be removed.
3) the water in the larger rear chamber will flow into the smaller rear chamber at the very bottom and up to the return via bulkhead and gate valve attachment. The gatevalve will adjust the level in the circular riser.










I have designed this to my needs but it can be modified to suit anybody's tank or system. Even a form of a HOB can be made with the same concept. One can make it much smaller but like said, i'm building this to my needs.
So my question to you DIYers, will this work? My best educated guess is that it can work. Its basically an elongated box for a beckett skimmer.
Input or comments will be appreciated.