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[Guest]

I have a extra "sump". It is an acrylic box, 20x12.25x18, made by CPR out of 1/4 inch acrylic, the lid is black acrylic.

It looks like the sump side for this

except nothing has been drilled.

I'd make it into a nano, but it has this annoying 3 inch wide acrylic brace set vertically near the top of the tank. In ASCII art, the tank looks like this:
Edit:I am the suxxors at ascii art. I'll upload a drawing:

So here are my thoughts. I could cut it down to 12 inches tall, discarding the brace section.

but then it would be easier to just spend 20 bucks to buy a 20 gallon.

Or I could ignore the brace and fill it with water anyway, knowing that eventually it will become a coralline "wall" in the middle of the tank

Or I could let it collect dust in my office for another 6 months.

what would you do?

 

[Bakapuma]

I would buy the 20 and use the sump as a refugium for it. Buy and overflow box or overflow siphon and a return pump. This would give you the display tank and a refugium for filtration. Check out what I did on the ten gallon daughter thread

 

[Guest]

I would care about the brace. you could coat it with some DIY LR let it harden and have floating island with corals hanging off.

 

[Guest]

I would care about the brace. you could coat it with some DIY LR let it harden and have floating island with corals hanging off.

Excellent idea, thanks!

 

[Guest]

I saw somthing like that on RC.