I cannot fit this the way I intended it to fit in my cabinet and sump, so I have no choice to go with an external skimmer that runs off an external pump. I would like to trade this skimmer for an external small foot print skimmer.
It's a great skimmer and I had the same problem u had....it was too high to fit in my cabinet so I decided to keep it out of the sump and it runs adjacent to the cabinet. This also gave me much more space for the refugium