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I would bring the drain to the fuge down diagonaly not down then accross.

For a water change you should use salt water. when you add water to make up for evaperation use RODI or distilled water. It sounds like you added too much fresh water at some point and may need to add more salt water.

No the drawing in post #11 won't work well. you need to split the drain pipe higher and angle down. A "y" connector would be best or a "t" with 45*s.

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Yes your setup is fine. You may want to add one more baffle for the water to go under into the return section. As evaperation occures the water level will drop in the return section. The way you have it it will spill over louder and louder as the level gets lower. Another setup is to have the...

maybe the lfs thought of mantis shrimp.

With sumps bigger is better if you have the space for it. Go with the bigest one you can fit, check your dimensions and recheck. How big a return pump depends on how much water you can flow out of your tank. Some of the flow rates can be from 5x tank vol. up to 15x tank vol. Are you going to...

Yes you can have all kinds of algae growing at the same time. If this is what you want great, if not then i would check your water with a tds meter. Have you checked for phosphates? Can you get more water flow in spots the algae is growing? What kind of lighting do you have? How old are the...

Hi bavass, There is another thread in the Community News & Announcements section "bulk reef supply group buy" started by Marco V. I think this is his first time hosting a group buy. He is a little short on the details. If you could help him out or cohost the group buy Then merge the two threads...

I think you are 99% wrong. The new aquarium keeper may very well know what there problem is, but just needs a little hand holding from the more experenced hobbiest. There are many of us on this board that don't mind helping out. I do see your point. Is there some kind of a filter to filter out...

Can you move your power heads to the left and right side walls and run them alternating? By pointing them at the front glass like in the picture you are loosing a lot of flow energy. I don't see your return in the pic but a smaller exit will increse the water pressure going in to the tank or...

Hi all, Not sure why most responses are about costs, this is just dreaming like, "if I win the lottery i'l l...". So my dream tank will be a in wall buld 8-10 ft. long, 4 ft. tall, 4 ft. front to back. With Radon lighting and vortec power heads so i can have lightning storms in my tank. The...

Hi Buffy, I'm still in the planing stage of a 40B set up. I will use 1 1/2 pvc through the back wall with a internal overflow, not sure if it will be herbie or durso. For my return I have a Mag 9.5 pump the outlet is 3/4inch so at least that big maybe 1 inch still undesided if over the top of...

Yes reuse it but the sand will need to be very well rinsed and rerinsed to get all the gunk and most of the salt out. If you mix the black sand with the white sand won't it just look gray?

My vote is to leave it in. It's mostly calcium and why would you want to take calcium out of your tank?

I know they can be traned, but i don't know how. I'll bet this guy knows, "melevesreef.com". Looks like he has lots of sun corals for a very long time, and great pictures of them. If you find out let us know.

stop do not use plexieglass and silicone for a long term watertight seal. you need a plastic bonding solvent. look up " weldon".

Yes by your low level of amonia you wasted some time. you may have all the types of bacteria you need but your populations may be too small to show good results in testing. get your amoina up over 1ppm.

Hi Dan, Add a lot more shrimp in a net or filter bag wait a 1/2 day then start testing for amonia you want to get it over 1 ppm if the amonia goes over 4 ppm remove the shrimp put in a ziplock bag label do not eat and freeze. when the amonia gets under 1 ppm add the shrimp again. start testing...

All in the planing stage sofar I have 40b tank to be drilled,20Long for sump, PSK 100 proteen skimer and will buld the stand to fit it all. How much water should flow through the sump? Is 600 gph too much or too little? 1 inch pvc ok for 600gph?

if you have a stand that suports the perimeter of a glass tank evenly and level the tank side to side and front to back it won't crack.

I don't think you will get as good a benefit as exposing all the rock to water flow. I think you are basicly wasteing 1/2 of your live rock. I also think there are better ways to control nitrates than a Deep Sand Bed(DSB).

I used eggcrate from the hardware store. It's a plastic grid with openings about 1/2 a inch square this keeps my large fish apart but lets the small fish swim through. or go to the pet store and get one.

Hi all, I would like some advice about drilling a 40b for a sump reef setup. best location? bottom corners? bottom center? back glass near top center? or corners? also what size pvc? Thank You,