Picked up tank & cabinet today.

[rickm]

Finally picked up my 55 gl tank and cabinet today at the LFS(which isn't very local).Had to wait a long time for it to come in.The bad news is that the cabinet is very narrow inside do to the center supports at 10 1/4".My plans of a 20 gl tall tank for a sump are now finished as it's to wide.There's nothing other than custom that will be long enough for my design for a skimmer chamber on one side with my Euro Reef CS-5 skimmer and a foot print of 9"x9".my mag 9.5 in the center which is 3" wide and on the other end a refugium.A 15gl tall might fit in there but it's kind of short at 20" long, with baffles would leave little for a refugium.The guy at the LFS gave me some crap for going with a mag 9.5, said it was to big for a 55 gl.My plans are to have it tee'd off with a ball valve feeding back to the sump to throttle it back if need be. I'm going to be using a SCWD with it so I went with a larger pump to compensate for the flow loss using the SCWD.If anyone has any idea's for a sump that would fit I'd appreciate it.
Thanks Rick

[jerryc]

I toke the back center braes out and reinforced the cabinet with tow by fours
That let me put a larger sump in. And made it stronger Thain before
Not hard to do and you don't need a lot of tools to accomplish it

[dakar]

If the 15 fits in there why not add another 10g tank for your refugium? They should fit end to end and tie them together wiith an overflow.

Though a custom sump/fuge made from acrylic is not difficult to whip together with nothing more than a tablesaw (a router would help to finish edges but not needed). Took me less than a weekend to build my first with no previous acrylic working experience.

[rickm]

Thanks...but how would I rig them up, would I use an overflow box with siphon tube?The 15 gl is 4" taller than the 10 gl. Wouldn't I in that case have the 15 overflow into the 10? Or use 2 10's or 2 15's.

[dakar]

That would work. I have our 20g fuge running with a weir box that spills back into the sump and it works like a champ, I like simple fixes like that.