HI. New to saltwater. Checkout My first Setup.....

[FishPirate]

HI. I am new to the SW hobby. I have been an active hobbyist for the last 1 1/2 years. I have a 40 gallon Breeder community tank (mostly Rainbow Fish and Discus), I also have a 120 gallon Cichlid Tank (Blood parrots, Gars, Green Terror, Blood Jewels, ETC). Lot's of success, very few failures, mostly due to doing my homework and applying what I felt was best practice by different experienced hobbyist. I am extremely excited to jump right into my SW tank. So my aproach to this has been to make sure that I do as much homework as possible and do what I felt was the best practice out there. So I am pretty much done with my initial setup, so here goes:
I have a 92 gallon corner tank. For filtration I am using a 29gallon DIY Sump/refuge. I am Using A CPR CS202 1500GPH capacity Dual Overflow, with an Aqualifter. For Return I am Using a Mag 9.5 return pump. I built my return line with 1" PVC, 1" true union ball valve, 1" true union check valve, to a 1" TEE then reduced to two seperate 3/4" lockline with 3/4" flare nozzles for water distribution. I also built a Bypass line in my return line back to the drainge area of my sump. I placed a 1" ball valve in the Bypass line to control flow. I am using a Eshopps PSK-100 HOB protein skimmer, (I liked the way it looked, great reviews, and I could afford it), placed HOB of drainage compartment of skimmer. Also, have a turbo twist 18 watt UV sterilizer built with seperate plumbing of 3/4" pvc with 3/4" ball valve to control flow and it'own powerhead. Hanging on side of drainage compartment of sump as well. I have two 1" baffles following drainage compartment with a built in 1" split about 4" above the sump floor for immediate water flow in to the fuge and then a 1" baffle right before return compartment. I had to do some custom to the stand to make this work for me and make not visible. I have a 24" Corallife double T5 for lighting for the fuge. Did some custom work to fit it inside perfectlyu over the sump. For lighting I am using a 48" Quad T5 Lighting system With Built in controls and timers. Custom hanging kit so that it floats freely abouit a foot above the tank. I am also using a hanging Metal Halide pendant fixture also hanging about 1.5 feet above tank towards corner/ rear part of tank.

This is what I have done so far.... Feedback Please.

This week I will be setting a JBJ ATO system with an RO/Di Sytem feeding RO water to my reservoir to my tank. Also I will be setting up A return pump kill switch in my DT to prevent overflo of DT....

Any other suggestions to make this a more complete system?
Note: I will not consider drilling my tank in any shape way or form. For those of u who always recommend it. lol Thanks anyway.......

[michaelr]

sounds pretty good. 1 thing for hob overflows; most people will agree that life reef overflow boxes are the best out there and there have been( i dont know if this was an earlier model) horror stories when it comes to cprs. So if you havnt ordered yet maybe reconsider. also: is that t5 fixture regular, high output or very high output?

[mjm7757]

Some pictures of your setup would greatly help with making some recommendations for it. Also, I am a fan of using HOB skimmers in the sump like your setup as well.