That's a great idea Patrick. I will assign you the "protein skimmer" gift. An MR3 would be very nice! hah hah.
Thanks Patrick and Charles...I know you'd be here if you could. I have the 240g tank up and running. I just need to work on the closed loop, but it's external (not drilled for) so that's no big deal. The sump is running very nicely, pulling the water down the overflows and whatnot. It's pretty freaking weird too...I've never had a sump (as you all know). So to move to having one after all thise time...well it's freaking weird. Brent keeps asking me a lot of questions about it and my only response ever is "I don't know..." hah hah. I feel like a newbie all over again.
I'm just hoping that everything makes it today. I think it will be fine though.