Please post you Reef pics for all to see

Updated photos. Sold some stuff to make room for my acros I ordered.

Yeah but those ones are really nice. The green is so dark and they have a yellow lightning bolt going down each arm. Just a awesome coral. I got ride of most of the Xenia and waving hand corals. They where growing so fast I was throwing away big clumps every week. I have been lucky so far seems like I'm a natural at this. I hope I have the same luck when the acros come.

Looks good man. The L shaped adjustable bracket that the float valve is attached through should be flipped over though. It will give you more water volume in your main pump section which will reduce noise, micro bubbles, and any salt creep from water splashing. Simply pull the eshopps assembly out, disconnect the float and the hinge fittings from the L shaped bracket. With all the fittings removed, unscrew the backing plate from the bracket and flip the bracket so it looks like an upside down L. Screw the backing plate back on and reinstall all the float valve fittings and float. This allows you to raise the water level about another 3-4 inches higher than how you have it now. Give it a try man. If you need, I can try to post a pic of your sump the way I set it up with one of my float valves in it.

You actually don't need to turn the main pump off for feeding, usually most people shut off the power heads only. But anyway, If you do want to keep shutting off the main pump while feeding, I would set it up so the skimmer and the main pump shut off and turn on together. That way the skimmer doesn't overflow when the water level rises above the baffles. Also it will only bubble over for a few seconds each time it starts back until the water level drops back to normal

I get a lot of the food floating down into the overflow if I don't shut off the pump, do you just let your skimmer catch this?

My feeding mode on the Apex currently shuts off the pump, powerheads, as well as the skimmer. I've heard that the water level fluctuating in your skimmer chamber can lead to bad performance, no? if that's not the case, i'll possibly raise the water level + float valve in my pump chamber... the noise/microbubbles aren't too bad, but i especially don't like how low the water is in the pump chamber compared to the outlet of the pump itself - waterline is literally a couple centimeters above the pump outlet... if i forget to refill my top off container or if the float valve fails my pump will be running dry! a couple more inches of water would be some added security on that.

This is my work in progress. I have a few pics of what it looked like when i got it and after i added a small amount of sand and rock,then added more sand, then went and saw Ryan and got close to 60 lbs of rock! Tommorow im finally getting a sump system and better lighting! YAY! lol I'm getting the rapids pro wet/dry sump system with autofill and a 4 ft marineland LED light. im stoked. I have a total of 11 fish; 3 chromis, yellow damsel,striped damsel and a domino damsel, a firefish goby, a six line wrasse, a snaffin tang,and two saddleback clownfish. I also have probably 5 hermits, maybe 5 snails, 2 emperor crabs, an arrow crab and a cleaner shrimp and a choc chip star fish. After this weekend I'll be set up for corals as well so im SUPER excited about that! the last pic is the RO system I have set up to do water changes with. My husband used one of those toilet knobs that shut off the water. he plugged part of it into the intake line of the RO system and the other part to where the shower head would be.(we never use this shower) This way, i can always add warm water if need be. The bad water goes down the drain of the shower and the filtered water is setup to go right into my 20 long. I have a heater in the tank to keep the water at temp and a thermometor strip in the front as well as a air stone in it to keep the water flowing. I couldnt believe how perfect the tank fit! I'm so glad i got into all of this! I LOOOVE this hobby