pumps.

yeah we've checked him out, our problem is we do alot of research...TOO much, so we get alittle overwhelmed with our options and the differing opinions.

 

Well with that setup youre going to have to have 2 drain outputs with a ball valve over the fuge to decrease the flow. Have you thought about the straight line setup. Skimmer-->Fuge--->return. Thats only one drain output

 

OK so we don't want to spend THAT much money on this, it started as a way to get a refugium and well... you know... SO that being said, we're tired of being readers and need to be TOLD what to do. We can't decide if we should have a T in the water going in the sump, filling the fuge on the one side and the skimmer on the other with the uptake in the middle. OR should we just have one line going down and have |skimmer area>fuge>uptake|. We pretty much just want lots of copepods, the better filtration is just a bonus. We don't want to end up spending more than say $200 with a premade overflow included in there because we could screw that up EASY.