Thanks every body... I hope it turns out as good in real life as it is in my head....
the ends are actually hinged doors, just for easier access.
yea the power strips had these crappy little holes in the back like you were supposed to hang them from screws, but that didnt work for crap, so i devised my own mounting scheme.
i decided to mount the timers on the end door, so that they were easy to get to and mess with, rather than trying to climb up inside the thing to mess with them..
you can also see one of the 2 T-5 3foot lights i have mounted in there...
the more i do to this thing, the more i think of that i wanna do..
now i'm thinking that i'm gonna slide the sump tank in, and then set up a shelf above it for the fuge and the algal scrubber.. that way i can increase the volume of the system all that much more...
I have a 12-15 gallon plastic bowfront tank i picked up from craigslist in austin a few weeks back, i'm thinking that i may use that as my algal scrubber tank, and keep the fuge i have on the tank now, and just drill one end of it for an "overflow" kinda setup, and then that can just gravity feed back to the sump...
Guess i might outta draw a picture... ok so what your looking at, is the light blue is the 29 gallon sump tank, then above that is the algal scrubber and the fuge i have now. the plan is to have 3 pumps in the sump, one is the DT return pump, (burn orange) the fuge pump, (hot pink), and the algal scrubber pump(green). Oh and the tall dark blue is the skimmer that i still need to buy...
My thinking is this, the sump return pump and overflow are normal, just like everyone has now... the algal pump will lift water out of the sump up to the scrubber, drop it over the screen with lights, and then run back out under gravity back down to the sump, the same follows true for the fuge.
This way if there is a power outage, theres no overflow problems.. the fuge wont overflow, the algae scrubber cant overflow, and the sump is only gonna be about 3/4 full, so it wont overflow..
also, there will be a baffel(or a set of them) between the return pump and the other pumps, and the returns from the algal scrubber and the fuge will dump into the return pump section, so that there is allways new water rather than recirculating the same water over and over through them.
