Gearing up a HOB overflow

[carriej]

Hi folks,

Need some help. I am 100% female and therefor I have no handy dandy nifty building/assembling skills of any kind. My pappy was a carpenter and always tried to teach me growing up, boy I wish I paid attention now.

Anyway, I have no talent at it. I ordered an eshopps overflow for my 125 reef and I have some questions. If they appear stupid - bear with me. I live in the middle of nowhere and I do not have an LFS, or even anyone that I can go look at their overflow. I do have some salty friends but none of them use overflows.

OK - So I ordered a bubble magus skimmer, 30 gal sump and an eshopps 1200gph overflow with a mag 9.5 pump. I hope I did the right thing else I will be cranky. I ordered everything from a small store about 3 hours away and this is what they recommended.

OK - problem. What do I need to connect everything, LOL.. I am praying my husband can figure it out but he's all like "this is your thing!" and well, I dont even know what I'm supposed to be looking for. I just want my fish and corals darnit!

Also, does my skimmer come with it's own internal pump? Am I missing something? Is that mag 9.5 powerful enough?

May seem dumb - but I am a high tech planted freshwater keeper jumping on the reef bandwagon. Nothing like being in the hobby almost 10 years and thinking you know what you're doing, only to have something like this knock you on your rearend.

I wish people didn't live so far away so someone could come help me... lol