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I bought a Media reactor - SMR1 from Nextreef to run with ecobak pellets. I was having a somewhat High nitrate and phospahte problem and so far after about 4 weeks this thing is amazing. The first day I could see a difference in water clarity, the corals just love this thing. Here is how the...

Hi all, I just purchased an MR1 Reactor for my 65 gallon reef, put it in my sump and I'm using the EcoBac pellets in it. My question is Do these reactors have a break in period? My local LFS has one running and the pellets are tumbling it appears like they should be. I'm starting out with 250ml...

Hi Thanks for quick reply, I'll give it some more time and take your advice. I tested my Nitrates and they are between 0 and 20 ppm so I guess that would have something to do with it as well.

I bought a Marineland pro 100 6 days ago. Anyone tell me a timeline that I can expect this to start producing skimmate? The instructions say 4-5 days. I read online a lot of people have said it takes a month. Right now adjusting it is difficult, it's either foaming over or a few inches below the...

Thats exactly what I concluded from everyones advice and what I'll do. Thanks very much! I love this forum.

Great advice, Thanks!

Hi Thanks for the advice. I would say it's probably a higher flow because when I set it up I took my bakpak skimmer and my eheim wet dry cannister and set it on the 29 gallon fuge. The idea was to get all the stuff out from under the main tank. I have the fuge flowing into a return 10gallon tank...

Hello all, I have a 29 gallon refugium feeding a 65 reef tank that I set up a few weeks back. The systems been running for about 3 weeks now and I've worked all the kinks out of it, made a few mods and it's running quite well. I'm ready to add substrate to it but I'm unsure of what and how deep...

Looks like a great website Thanks!

Thanks so much. I want to put mangroves in too. I think they're cool. Can you get reef pods at your LFS?

Thanks! any thoughts on my other questions?

Hello! I have a 54 corner reef system that I want to make a refugium for. Right now all I have on the tank is a Bakpac skimmer and a Fluvall cannister filter. I'd like to use spare parts I already have to do this. I have a mag 9.5 pump, the bakpak skimmer, 2 36" T5 lights, Heater. I can put the...

Thanks so much for the good advice

Thats good advice, I'll probably end up drilling it. I did call Eshopps and they told me that setup requires 195 - 325gph to work properly. As I mentioned I figured the Mag 12 was doing 196 which is according to them right at the bare minimum of flow. (If I calculated right). I do have an extra...

Any suggestions on make or model?

Hello! I have a 65 Reef thats been setup for about 5 years now and I'm adding a refugium to it to help with algae control. The way the tank is setup I can't put anything underneath the tank so I'm making it in my basement. I'm making it out of stuff I've accumulated over the years. The refugium...