chrisfowler99

Same here. Everything goes for it.

Sound perfect for Mark's new project: http://www.austinreefclub.com/topic/14746-brooks-inspired-me/

That would be impressive. Hard to imagine that it will be "cost effective" though. Also, how do waves get along with a bow front? Didn't Chad and Belinda just check into something similar with Tunze?

Pink Margin Fairy Wrasse jumped some time this weekend. I presume when I was doing a water change and had the cover off and wasn't looking. It's left the tank before, but I managed to get it back in. Not this time. My daughter's gonna be pissed when she finds out. She picked that one. Oh, well...I never really liked it. hmm...I could take the cover off now, I guess.

I'd like to do LED...but the cost for the 200ish LEDs that I'd need to buy to build the rig have given me pause. Of course...I've just saved a lot of money by switching to Tate...

Ok...for my own curiosity...do you know if you used Cree Cool White or Neutral White LEDs? (not looking to buy...thinking about building)

hehe

$10/bulb?!?

Ordered a pair...not much more than replacing the Reeflux 20k, with the discount. We'll see how I like them.

Are you still running the Aqua Connect bulbs today? Has the color changed? Aquarium Specialty has the 250W and 400W Aquaconnect bulbs for 25% off...I'm probably getting close to time to change out my bulbs and was thinking about moving away from the Reeflux 20ks...

My 250W Reeflux 20Ks are whiter than I was expecting as well...interesting to see a 14K that looks bluer. I'll be curious if it maintains that color.

You can always choke down the return pump to have less water going down the open channel. It shouldn't be much more than a trickle.

You mean when you turn the open channel into a siphon? Otherwise it is going to have air... It also looks like your outlets are low. They should be just a bit below the surface of the water. Otherwise the siphon can have a harder time getting going fully. (speaking from the voice of no experience, but lots of reading. )

So you never found 1 1/4" sanitary tees I take it? That can be a source of a little bit of extra noise on the open channel...the 90 degree elbows at the bottom might be too...

Oddly...the "standard" drawings he has use 1" for "drain" and 1.5" for the rest of it. It's definitely based on the durso. The only difference between the main siphon and a typical durso is that it's meant to be a full siphon at all times, which should make it dead silent. The second line is a true durso, but the amount of water flowing through it should be very minimal, which should result in it being silent as well. The more water you have going through it the more noise it's going to make. The third line...yeah, probably overkill. It's for the "failsafe" claim which, if you have enough room in your tank to hold the volume of water that you can pump out of your sump, you should, technically, never need. (I know you harp on this one Mike. ) I have a regular durso standpipe in my 75g right now. It's not completely silent, but it's not terribly noisy. The main thing I don't like is that I've never managed to get the return pump and the drain completely matched. About once a day it flushes. More often if I don't keep the hole on top cleaned out. If I was 100% sure I will never want to do a wave I'd definitely be going with this setup. It's not that difficult to setup on a new tank and should be pretty much dead silent, setup correctly. But...with the thoughts about a wave I may end up with something different.