Hello fellow addicts!
My name is Eric, I have been in the hobby for years but have been out of it for the past 5 or 6 years.

This is an off topic on topic post so I guess this is the correct place for it. Anyways my current set up in progress is a 65 gallon hex reef ready or at least it has been made that way. The tank has 2x1" drains I will use one for the sump and the other for a closed loop. I have a single 250watt DE halide pendant for lighting and I am working on an ATS filter.

Ok now we get back on topic, I am building my ats using a wet dry sump I had lying around, the dimensions are 24"x8 1/4"x 14" the scrubber section is 16"x8 1/4"x 14" L,W,H here are a few pics of my progress so far.







I have it layed out for the most part, the scrubber screen will be 8"x8" double sided making it 96 square inches, I am using a 500gph pump to power the scrubber, the lights will be 2x23w of cfl floods giving me roughly 3 wpg equivalent. I drilled the side of the sump so I can mount the lights an inch away from the screen and dead center, the bulbs will have to be installed from inside the sump but the sockets will be mounted outside. The return pump to the tank will be a 500gph pump as well and it will be mounted external. I have to drilled for the bulkhead but that is easy enough to do. After the head pressure I will have about 400 gph running through the tank, that will turn it over about 5 times and hour. The closed loop will take care of flow in the tank so I am not trying to get the most gph through my sump.

Well that is my run for this evening, any advice, suggestion, or thoughts are welcome.

Eric