First Saltwater Aquarium

[dweeble]

I need some help with my setup. I am new to this so please bear with me. I have a 29 gallon and a 20 gallon tank, with a stand to hold one over the top of the other. I was thinking of putting the 29 gallon on top for my reef and the 20 gallon on the bottom for a refugium. I was wondering exactly what I would need in order to construct this and whether or not anyone had any diagrams or pictures of a setup similar to this one. If anyone knows other threads/sites they recommend that could help me out, that would be great too. Thanks.

 

[dweeble]

Can anyone help me out?

 

[bobothewizard]

I would do a search on this site for "Overflow" and "Return Pump" without the quotes of course.
Should be all the information you need. Basically what you will do is have a overflow drain down into your 20 gallon tank and have a return pump pump water back up to the 29 gallon tank. You can also do a search on "Sump" or "Refugium"

 

[dweeble]

Thanks Bobo. I have actually been doing quite a bit of research and I plan on building my own overflow, having it run into a protien skimmer, then into the 20 gallon tank, then back up into the main tank. If anyone has suggestions on a good protien skimmer for this (it would have to be a skimmer that could sit in the 20 gallon tank) and some good pumps to move the water through the overflow, skimmer, etc. it would be extremly helpful.