Well after thinking, planning and working on ideas this is what I came up with
Created Baffles and use a natural type of filtration. With my new setup I have tons of room in my refugium as well the cheato now acts as a microbubble filtration system.
Just a simple little PVC/Egg Crate stand now puts my cheato where the overflow from the ref heads into the next baffle creating a nice filters. Now there are NO SPONGES in my tank to worry about.
Maybe this will help some of you, or maybe some of you have already done this.