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New fuge looks rad. Did you ever try biological control? Wrasses or springer damsels?

Just to play devils advocate, I've been using IO (FOWLR right now until i get some coral in) but dont have algae issues, yet. I did however notice that my barrel does have quite a bit of insoluble junk at the bottom. The tank looks fantastic!

The only thing you have to be careful About with centrifugal pumps is that their flow rate can change with fouling, which means more tweaking of flow rate. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

It’s nice when the universe throws you a bone! Are you going to manifold feed it or use something else ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

smuggle any frags back? KIDDDING. ...maybe

sorry to see you go. good luck with the sale and hope it finds a good home

Did you assemble it yourself or buy a premade item?

That looks like a very, very nice regulator...what did you end up going with?

Skimmer Pump for OTP-3000. Works fine, but keeps tripping GFCI. Use at your own risk! Looking for maybe $30 cash or trade for interesting livestock.

maybe its just so that you can get a little bit of gravity flow to siphon from the sump. if its on the floor you're destined for some kind of pumped removal.

Im so jealous of those wide support bars on the stand for sump work.

I would guess that the CO2 should be pretty well spent by the time it gets to the second chamber.

I have two 20A circuits dedicated to the fish tank. I have a third non-dedicated circuit (runs washing machine and ambient lights) which also runs the portable AC. The 4th circuit in the room runs some auxiliary outlets plus the exhaust fan. The only things I installed for the tank specifically were the two new circuits, the other two were pre-existing and just happy little accidents that they were a) large enough and b) separate such that i could still achieve semi-adequate temp/rh control if one circuit failed (e.g., the exhaust fan works but the PAC fails).

For electrical, i would make sure to have at least two dedicated circuits. Maybe even three if you have individual HVAC for the fish room. Mine has 4 circuits, although only two are dedicated. As far as temp control goes, I try to keep my ambient room temp at 80 and my humidity below 60. I have been able to achieve that with a central AC drop, a portable air conditioner and also a vent fan which at this point is really more to keep reef stench out than to do real heat/rh control. It's much more complicated than people give the problem credit for, unless you just want to through a ton of watts at it and you dont care about heat loss into the room.

I have some fish from ben. Very healthy and high quality.

so the UV didnt head it off... .boo!

well done. the sump area looks very nice.

Man I could use a few feet of that 1" flex, when you actually get it... Let me know and I'll buy! Word to the wise, a prevailing theory on the tin levels in some reef aquariums, measured by ICP so take it with a grain of salt, is that plasticizers in flex pvc can contain tin. However, they do leach out pretty quickly (days to week) so you might soak it in a bucket before putting it into use?

is this the same reeflink from your other post or do you have two reeflinks 😂?

OP, pls update.

Nah, my BS is purely recreational, not classical educated. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I have a BS in wit and got a masters in sass from UT.

I mean if he coated it in maroon, it would look great in august, but completely fail in november....... So does this thread die and then a new one starts with Maroon Lagoon 3.0???!!

This is the dropoff tank thread allllll over again.

wasnt it 450 on 9/16 too? 😁