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No pump. The output tube from the RODI unit is inserted into the long plastic tubing. I set the tubing to be going from high to low to utilize gravity. It worked out incredibly well considering the flow from the RODI is relatively slow. This not only allowed me to fill the sump slower making it easier on the system but prevented me from overflowing buckets which I *clears throat* occasionally do when refilling my 5g top off jug.

What kind of pump is pumping that distance?

Instead of carrying a jug from my RODI unit in my laundry closet to fill my salt water tank I ran a 20ft tube from the unit to the tank. Gotta love apartment living. This also allows me to add water at a slower rate instead of dumping a 5g jug of fresh water into the sump all at once.

I plan to attend this meeting.

James, known as JSR at ARC, has been kind enough to offer his home to us for our March meeting. Please be kind to James as he has mentioned that he has been super busy at work as of late. So let him know just how much you appreciate his offer.

This will be a Saturday meeting held on March 21st. at 3:00pm

The address is 623 Fence Post Pass Cedar Park, TX 78613 (whoa that looks fancy<<)

map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source...038624&z=15

There will again be food.

If you have any special talents that you'd be willing to discuss or show at the meetings please PM me so we can make an announcement in regards to a guest speaker. We had such a good time just lounging at the last meeting that I think it should be the focus of this meeting as well. I really liked, and think it was rather well received, that many members offered up a small frag from their tank as a token of goodwill for the host of the last meeting.

Any comments or suggestions are welcomed in this thread.

I hope to see you there. Feel free to "RSVP" so we know how much food to get, we had way to much at the last meeting so don't be shy.

Picture of light.

I have a JBJ K-2 Viper light. ( http://www.jbjlighting.com/sys_k2_viper.html )

The glass shattered not long ago. I don't know why. The bulb is fine but the glass shattered outward. I found glass in the tank. I don't know if it was the temp differential between the light and my room or what. JBJ wants $19 for the part and shipping. Does anyone know anywhere I can get it cheaper? Maybe one of the LFS here in town?

Is it still available? I have a friend who is looking. He is not on the list. Is there an email address I can give him to contact you?

I am looking into selling my 70g RR tank.

70g RR tank

Handcrafted cherry colored wood stand with canopy

Approx 90lbs of live rock (mix of tonga and fugi). Most of it is quite purple

75-80 lbs of sand

30g sump/fuge

AquaC EV-180 protein skimmer with JG fitting and Eheim 1262 pump

Currently this is being run as a FOWLR tank. There are 2 clowns in it right, a couple shrimp and 8-10 blue leg hermits.

Tank has been running for about 3 years now so it is well established.

Looking at selling the entire setup. Entertaining reasonable offers if you are interested.

I haven't seen any of you guys in quite a while. I've been checking the board but haven't seen any meeting announcements. Have we been having any monthly meetings?

If anyone has any there are going to be trimming off and disposing of anyway, please feel free to let me know. I just finished my new fuge and am looking for some new chaeto to put in it. I can come pick it up.

Sounds like a lot of fun. I have no kids but I'd want to do that myself.

How often do they do this?

I am not sure if any of you have spent the night at Seaworld, but my daughter and I did it last weekend and it was a blast! The price is $100 a head, but IMO it is worth it. You get to go a lot of places that are not allowed when the park is open and we ended up sleeping in the Shark exhibit. Nothing like falling to sleep with sharks swimming in front of you.

Oh and we got to hang out with Jack Hanna for a bit as well.

Thank you. I didn't get a reply right away so I ended up just adding 2 to my order on Marine Depot. I prefer giving local shops business if I can, but I needed some soon as I may be getting a foster animal in my tank this week. I've done the knot in air tubing but I am a big fan of spending a few bucks to make things easier. It was only like $8 for it and if it works well then it's money well spent. Any device that makes adding fish easier is always a plus but especially if the device allows me to start a siphon without risking getting water in my mouth ;-)

You can get the tubing and flow control "T" at any LFS. If you need a syringe (I'm assuming that it used to start the siphon) I have several left over from medicating my dog you are welocmed to. Or you can just tie a knot in the tubing and loosen or tighten to adjust the water flow.

And please forgive a few of the awful typos/grammar errors. I posted as I was multitasking my damage control/clean up efforts.

Since I am in an apartment I have an indoor work bench

I took my first attempt at using a router with acrylic today. (good news)

It worked great (good news)

No matter how many power tools you have used inside I don't recommend using a router with acrylic indoors. I have acrylic specs in almost ever corner of my 10X10 office (bad news)

But the teeth are in my baffles are turning out well. But I know for next time. Thank good news I own a shop vac since I do other tool work in my home office. lol

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind

another tip for you. when using a router, dont touch the bit while the tool is running! you could lose the end of your finger! IME

Since I am in an apartment I have an indoor work bench

I took my first attempt at using a router with acrylic today. (good news)

It worked great (good news)

No matter how many power tools you have used inside I don't recommend using a router with acrylic indoors. I have acrylic specs in almost ever corner of my 10X10 office (bad news)

But the teeth are in my baffles are turning out well. But I know for next time. Thank good news I own a shop vac since I do other tool work in my home office. lol

Does someone here know which shop in town might have one of these in stock or something similar?

I'm glad I live in the middle of town. I wouldn't have even know we HAD a storm if it wasn't for the wet ground this morning. I heard some rain hitting my bedroom window in the middle of the night. Correction my dog heard it and decided to wake me up to let me know it was raining. But other than that brief time I woke up to hear rain hitting lightly my window I wouldn't have even known it was raining, more less a big storm/tornado. There were no leaves blown or trees down or anything like that. Looked just like a normal rain storm occurred this morning when I woke up.

My google-fu is failing me. I have seen pictures before but for the life of me, I tried googling and tried checking all of my relevant bookmarks and could not find an example . I am putting together my new sump/fuge. I recently picked up a new skimmer from an ARC member and I need a way to lift the skimmer up 5" from the bottom of the sump. I have seen people constrict small little stands underneath it using small pvc/pipe parts. The skimmer is a AquaC EV-180 for size reference. Can someone please post links, pictures, how-tos or whatever on how to put one together? Thank you.

Kevin

Did you have the pump paired with the skimmer on your setup?

I was looking for a used skimmer but wasn't planning on spending quite that much right now.

I figured some of you would appreciate it. To memorialize my life long love of marine life, aquariums,etc. I finally got my (Ray) tattoo done today that I have been wanting to do for a while.

I wouldn't miss it! I am a big fan of Mark's work.

My current and last tank were DSA tanks. Nice looking and no issues with either.

Anybody use their tanks and stands? They look fantastic on-line but I haven't see these in person or heard any reviews for those that own them. How is the pricing?

I need a sharp looking tank as it will go in the living room and the wife needs to approve

I know when working on my 29g sump I went very simple. I used to do wet/dry and decided going all wet with a good skimmer worked just as well for me. I didn't use a sponge (they can be a nit factory if not maintained so to min maintanance I just kept it from the equation), and no bubble traps. I'm not against bubble traps. In fact when I set up my 280g I'm sure I'll use them on the big sump for that. But since I was converting an old tank I wanted to conserve space and also I'm not quite the master DIY yet. After a couple errors while trying to sillicone and hold in the bubble trap baffles I decided to go with my gut and put mirrored toothed baffles (with a split flow going to each side and the return pump in the middle chamber) and with a conservative (but not too low) flow rate through the tank. I haven't had any issues with microbubbles though if I did, a sponge filter over the intake of the return filter should fix that (at least in my setup), YMMV. I'll be posting pictures soon becuase I'll be re-doing my setup a bit since my current sump/fuge got cracked when I moved :-(

Is that whole where the return pump goes? If so I would go with a much bigger return area. Evaporation, is going to empty that pretty fast. I see you have an ATO, but if something goes wrong with it, it doesn't leave much room for error.

Also, a three baffle bubble trap instead of the section with what I think is a sponge shelf in between the skimmer and return would be more effective. <---not the best sentence ever written!

You could also try to incorporate a bubble tower for the drain from the tank.

My gut feeling is you have some great ideas and nice implantation, but just need a larger space in which to work. If you took your basic design increase the size by 2 or 3 times and put in some bubble traps I think you would be happy.

I have to say nice skimmer!

Can this sump take the water needed when you turn of your return?

The way I help against this is when I spec out a return pump I make sure I am somewhat conservative. I'd rather be slightly under with my pump and just add a closed loop or add a power head if I need more total flow in my tank. Also the flow from my over flow into my sump/fuge is split. 25% of the total flow goes into my fuge (to keep fuge flow low) and 75% of the flow goes into my tank with my skimmer. Using this method I currently do not have to tee or reduce anything in regards to my return pump.

I also have a T back to sump on my sump output, but the problem is the sump is so small, and too much water movement, the water from the T connection run right back in the pump in no time, in combination, it generates a lot of micro bubble this way

Eeek! each to their own of course. But I never throttle pumps down. Worst case I tee it back into the sump but throtteling down the outp put of a return pump can wear down the pump much faster and also causes excess heat build up becuase the pump is working harder. Actually for my 280g I'm specing out right now I am looking at just using dual small pumps for redundancy but also to minimize headloss from taking a big return pump and splitting it to two returns.

Everybody oversizes their pump. Can you imagine the money saved on electricity and initial pump purchase?

I have a 225 Gallon tank with about 40 gallons or so in sump. I have a Panworld that does 1100 gph (265 X 5 = 1325) and I still could have done smaller. I have to throttle the pump back!!

Lee

For comparison. I am running a 70g with a 29g sump/fuge and my return pump only does just shy of 600gph.

That is a TON of water through a 29 gallon. I think I bigger sump would suit you best. It would allow for more error when the power goes out.

5x turnover is a good number to shoot for. You are looking right now at almost 30x. Your skimmer barely has time to grab any water. The bubbles don't even have time to float to the top.

I know this sounds crazy, but I am SURE someone would trade you for a smaller pump if that is something your interested in. I personally think you should just go bigger with the sump.