Utility tanks.

Does anyone use these in the iowa area?
What I call a utility tank is a smaller tank, typically about 10-20% of your dt, that is plumbed into your system with a quick release to issolate it from your system.
During normal operation the utility tank, in my case, is a dsb that is used to grow macro and micro algeas under 24 hour lighting. Using the space as a biological filter and having the ability to quickly remove the system from the main filtration you have the ability to isolate fish or corals into a quick issolation chamber with little extra stress from acclimation to an active issolation tank. Which can often come in handy especially in tanks with aggressive fish or corals.
I'll throw a pic up in the morning for a visual reference. But does any one use a similar system?

 

Ill have pics up this weekend! I got caught between two projects and made a new stand for it in the mean time!

 

So here she is! Finally back up and running. So long and short of it this tank is essentially a display refugium. Its plumbed into the sump intake past the skimmer and drops it back right intothe filter sock. Pumps about 200-250 gph from the main system and runs a fluval 206 filled with carbon on itself. So another 200 gph or so internally. The tank is set up with a buncb of macro algeas to filter out extra nutrients. dual cfl run 7 to 10 and a single t8 50/50 runs 24/7. Its a great tank in that if anything in your dt goes south you can cut off the utility tank and toss it in as a quarenteen with little to no acclimation. Great for coal frags to keep pesky nippers away after fresh cuts. Awesome for water changes and also great as a specimen tank for things like mantis shrimp. The also make amazing pod farms. If I chake that chaeto in the tank it explodes!
Thats a 10 on my 75 and my 40 has a 20.