OK, you need to help us out here... (OK, this serves 2 purposes, 1, lets you brag and 2 lets us see what you are doing):
PLEASE: Post a build thread and tell us ALL ABOUT what you are going to do/planning to do. This way you get to try your ideas out and let us give you advice, since we've ALL already made many huge mistakes. No sense in repeating them!
If you need a BIG pump, I have a brand new Quiet One 9000 (2300+ gph) sitting on the garage floor...
And, yes, I have a "Hobogato" Skimmer. Ace can build you one for much less than you can buy one.
Bill
215g FOWLR... and anemones, GSP, gorgonians... carp, that isn't FO!
"I killed my first SW Fish in 1971..."