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I might be way off base here but is that not sun coral polyps? If so entire colonies sell for less. Is this something else? Something I should be more interested in?

GK I'm with you about the no copper for inverts. It will kill them. So if you are treating a fish you cannot add any inverts. Also run it bare bottom so that the sand and rock does not absorb the copper.

turbo's would probably get to big. I'd start with an easy number of about 10 blue legs and 10 ceriths. Look around for the astreas as well.

Or do you mean "deer licks"??? Oh man I wouldn't think they'd be very pure and free of nitrates, trites, ammonias, or phosphates. I'd bet they are not batch tested either. Where you referring to salt licks?

Anyone wish to house my Fission skimmer for me?

I'm running 2x 250w Pheonix 14k on Icecap ballasts with 2x 96w Actinic PC's. You don't even notice the PC's when the MH's come on. Is this late enough?

The Fission is complete garbage. I bought one. I tried setting it up. I was very let down at the hundreds of tiny pieces that don't actually lock together. Upon installation it would fall apart and into the sand bed. When you did get it to stay together you realized that the collection cup is about the size of a sewing needle. What I found happened is it would quickly fill with water and then you'd almost destroy the thing trying to get it apart to clean it. It comes with a tiny airline sized take off for a remote cup but why? The internal tower is about 1/4". You can't let that get dirty. So it's either add a cup and run it dirty or break it every time you clean it. To adjust the water level you adjust how high you stick the skimmer to the back wall. Well if you have any water evap everything changes.

I wouldn't just say they demand top dollar because of the name. I used to think that. But when you factor in the reliability, quietness, ease of cleaning, and superior power savings it's hard to continue saying that. I thought I would save a buck with the Seio's. Sure they are ok, and I even tell my friends with a little less coin to check them out, but they don't compare to the Tunze units. Not near as easy to clean. Run a little hotter. Come with hundreds of extra watchamacallits that can make mounting confusing...... I see all these threads on how to mod an MJ. From what I've read it can cost almost as much as a Stream to build your first one. Sure you'll save a dollar if you use the remaining parts to make 10 more. But then you have to hope you get everything perfectly square and balanced....

I work a lot. A whole lot. Wanna drive down to the get together in SA on Sunday? You can see the tank then.

I swear I have one of those. It was sold as a doughnut but I had no idea of the species name. Everything you just described. Looks exactly like a scolymia but never puffs out.

Come see my 75g with a Tunze 6060 and a Seio M620.

So it isn't a scolymia?

Only a scooter blenny and 2 maroon clowns. The tank crawls with pods. Oh and the tank will soon be a 400g. Who What When Where?

75g, 200lbs of LR. Established almost 2 years. LMK.

I run 2 250w Pheonix over my 75g. It looks great the corals I have are freakin sweet. On Icecaps. Come by and look sometime.

I'm really interseted in attending. Are there any other ARConists willing to drive and or share a vehicle? Arconist was the best I could come up, what are we?

You mean like this bad ***? I sure love me some nudis. Got it awhile back.[/img]

Collection trip first. Last year barbecues, surfing, charter fishing, public aquarium tours (behind the scenes), lectures, meet and greets, swimming all that kind of lame stuff. I so wanted to go last year and was even offered a ride but finances wouldn't allow it. This year I reserved a "nice" room for myself.

Splitting to reproduce? Dying? I've heard of little creatures that specifically eat leathers. I can't remember if they area worm or nudibranch.

It's a relative comparison. If you said you had 600GPH turnover from your sump in your 120g then you'd have a decent turnover for your sump but that would be paltry in comparison to your actual flow needs. If you said you had 6,000 GPH in your 12,000G tank, well sure 6,000GPH might sound like a lot until you actually figure out how much current you'd need in that 12,000g tank. So unless you have a 6,000GPH return pump on your 120g, but then the water would be ripping through your sump so fast that the important stuff probably wouldn't be happening. Like if you add a chiller to your tank and the manufacturer recommended a 400gph pump. Well adding a 800gph pump does not make the chiller twice as effective, in fact it makes it half as effective as with the right pump. There just isn't enough contact time to transfer the heat to the coils and then blow it off with the fan. So would you even bother calculating the 400GPH into your systems configuration? If you want 3,000GPH internal tank flow then I'd say no, why bother?

Sump rates are not considered to be tank flow rates. I have a 1262 as my return for my 75g but when I got it I thought it'd be enough flow for my entire tank. Since I have a built in fuge I teed off from the pump to the fuge. This allows the water to overflow back into the skimmer chamber creating a sort of recirculation. this slows down the amount of water cycling in the main tank but allows the water a second chance at meeting the skimmer. For main flows I use Tunze 6060's on a wave maker timer.

I too was like whoowee Eheim came out with a 1272? I gotta have one. 1262 is considered the bad motha and difficult to get a hold of. The 1260 is common. 1262's rock my socks. Oh and hey, just for fun, what pumps and such? I'm buying up used equipment to have around for when I sort out the new 400g.

I have the colony that you were thinking of. It will be a long time before it grows out. But if you score some blues we might make a trade.

John did an excellent job of helping you figure out your sump but your main question I think was do you like close loop better than Tunze streams. That's a tough one as I do like some Tunze. For my 400g I'm planning on 3 of the 5,000gph Tunze's on controllers. I want it so that at any time 2 of them are on and in a random pattern. The thing about closed loops that turns me off is that you need a very expensive device like an Ocean Motions wave maker to make it a random return instead of just a constant flow. They are expensive and from what I've read, very prone to breakdown.

I'm trying to negotiate my room right now. Which of course means Ill reserve it and pay for it only to be told I have to work that weekend.