well... i had a crazy idea today... (thats what happens when im bored, and have extra tanks/stands lying around...
ok so i have (2) 36" stands (relativly same size, ones a few inches taller...)
anyway, i had the idea to put them next to each other, that way id have a place for my skimmer, and a seperate/bigger fuge... so on one stand would be my 58 gallon (drilled twice) wit the 20 long sump below it. then on the next stand, id have the skimmer, and a 20 high for a refugium... with a 10-20 gallon top-off tank below that.
so one of the drains from the 58 goes to the 20 long sump, and the other would go to the 20 high fuge which would then go through a bulkhead, into the 20 sump. it would be 100% gravity fed, and i dont have to worry about it draining a ton of water into my sump, because i have an overflow on it, so once the water level in the fuge goes below that level, it stops drainig water (ie: power outage).
then with this larger fuge, it will be very easy to isolate this 20 high from the rest of the system, when i need a Q tank, i'd just throw some powerheads in there, and it would be a cycled QT tank for new/sick fish, and it would be a sinch to hook back up to the main system/take away from the main system.
this probably makes absolutley no sense too you, so i made a rough diagram ...
would this be a good idea to put this with my system?





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