refugium won't fit

I need to take off my back middle brace of my stand. I built my fuge, and it's not going to waste. I plan on putting the brace back on after I get the refugium under the tank. Any good advice.

 

Can you lower the water level to reduce the pressure on the tank until you get things squared away with your refugium? Measure twice and cut/order once, eh?

 

Yeah man. Thanks

 

Is the fuge too big or is sump in way? If you are removing the brace lowering the water helps. I would look into wedgeing a 2x4 or something in place but not in the way of you placing the fuge sort of like moving a beam in a house when finishing a basement. If the sump is in the way I would move the sump you will have less chance of disaster.

 

thats the way i had to do mine. drained water as low as i could go.then put in temp support. in my case the glass was exactly the same width as the stand(in between supports) so i had to notch out a 1/2" of the upper and lower tank frame from the 2x4 supports.

 

I cut out the brace and put it in. Everything worked great. My fuge is up and running. Thanks for the help you guys.

 

No problem and congrats! Post a picture if you can!

 

I'll try sometime.