How to better organize multitanks?

[dendro982]

Sorry for late reply, was absent.

Thank you all, very helpful information and a good food for a thought.

I did the closed stand for the ultimate tank/sump/refugium configuration. At least I thought so . It didn't worked, as expected. The stand was so fundamental work, that I can't disassemble it without sawing in a small pieces. Seriously. Have to wait for the end of season's junk removal.

I'm trying to make an optimal configuration, but reality check always changes the best and carefully researched plans.

I dream about just one tank...
But with not too much interesting animals in LFS, very few of them are interesting to keep.
Some of them require different conditions (chili coral, wasn't able to keep it in the main tank), others have to be kept apart from everybody else (sea apples), or are just plain big for a small tank (1 ft size, when opened, tube anemone, absolutely gorgeous!), and the biggest tank is unfit for a fine filter feeders (either low food density, or overload of the system with nutrients and wasting the food).

In addition, I have troubles with rectangular tanks - the only widely available, and have different plans, than ordering custom tanks for now (and even don't know the optimal configuration yet). Decisions, decisions...