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Here's some rough draft canopy diagrams on how I plan to do my lighting. any thoughts?

here's a diagram of the layout for my saltwater project's sump it'll be an old 30 gallon that's badly scratched and has some minor leaks around the top bad. feedback is most welcome!

I've produced about 25-30 gallons of water with my new aquasafe unit, and tds from the di unit has climbed from 0 to about 20 in a period of what, about 2 weeks? water I produced earlier still has a tds of 1 and it's been sitting in a 5 gallon bucket for a long time are there some chemicals...

Hi y'all I'm looking to get a used fluval 404 or eheim 2215 / whatever canister filter for a fw tank I don't need any media, just the baskets/trays if the seals are good and the impeller and shaft are in good shape, I'm happy let me know via pm

I just finished the T5HO retrofit of my 29 gallon tank I will post some pics in a bit, but the first thing to say is WOW I replaced a 2x 96watt PC setup with a 2x24 watt T5HO 6500k setup and although it's not brighter than the 192 watts of PC, it is a lot brighter than a single PC, and takes...

I'm looking for a inline temperature probe to monitor the temp of water going to my RO+DI unit. the few i've found online all appear to be industrial in nature, or otherwise very expensive so I'm thinking along these lines... 1) go to discount store and get a $10 digital thermometer 2) also...

http://www.automatedaquariums.com/h_salt.htm does anyone have one of these - any feedback on how it's working for ya? looks promising - based on the cost, it's about the same as a refractometer, but not needing any light or little droplets of water, or a dunk in the tank (like a hydrometer)!

my 6 stage RO+DI unit has arrived - here's the pics in my gallery

ok, I've seen the squid mentioned a few times in searches, but the askers never got any/many answers so I take it no one is using the scwd? I'm not looking for hersey or 2nd hand knowledge here :P .... just personal experiences. :D

I'm trying to deciide where to put spray bars so that I get a good amount of water moving in several directions, but have the least visible amount of pipe. so, looking at my tank, I've got room for 1/2" sch 40 to fit under the plastic band and not be easily visible from the outside (hidden by...

here's a few shots of my overflow in the tank, as well as the sump. I'm going to grab some little screw-in hooks to organize the wires a bit - looks darn nasty right now. the sump is also a fuge for some fast growing anacharis, to help keep processing the water on a reverse lighting schedule...

I was looking at aquasafe's 100gpd unit, and reading about the water temperature effecting efficency. they claim: according to my thermometer, my cold tap water temp right now is 46°F so, 77-46= 31 ... 31 * 1.4 = 43.4% 43% lost in product efficiency due to the water being cold. Any ideas...

alright, a few months back I setup a 10 gallon tank with a diy'd substrate heater, and about 3" of a gravel / profile substrate. the heater was approximately 40 watts, and consisted of a tin/copper wire (with teflon insulation) wound around a pvc frame, placed in the very bottom of the...

I picked up 3 clowns at meijer this afternoon, to join the other 2 I bought locally. I wanted to get all of them from the same store, but the local lfs refuses to get more in, so I went out of town instead. sorry, no pics till they acclimate... they look identical to my other two anyway...

Ok - I got a sweet deal on Intermatic digital timers at home depot, so I built some 'gizmo' to make use of them parts list: 1x intermatic digital wall switch timer -- $8.00 1x 2 position plastic gang box -- $0.42 1x duplex outlet -- $0.36 1x Fancy gang box cover -- $1.16 1x 3 Prong Extension...

alrighty I've finished my latest overflow project - this one I'm confident enough with to not call a prototype. the outer drain box is constructed of 1/4" plexi, bent via heat gun to hang on the tank. the inner skimmer is 1/8" plexi, screwed onto the drain box lip with some plastic screws...

ok, do tell about the bargains you've gotten - with the gift giving season upon us, spare no detail. please keep chatter and classified ads to a minimum, they have their own forums.

Tis the season - spare us no detail :) try to keep chatter in this thread to a minimum - thanks :)

heck, it's not even winter yet, and I've had my first white-out Enjoy these gloomy pics ;)

well, thanks to our local power company being bought out by a huge conglomerate, the quality of service has decreased and the length and frequency of outages has increased therefore, I went to walmart and purchased a 75Ah marine deep cycle battery. last night our power went out at 9:30 pm...

any tips on making a sword flower (or at least, send out a flower stalk) my sword is getting humungous, and I'd like it to spawn again so I can have some more swords for other planted tanks. I've read all sorts of conjecture on the matter, from changing the photoperiod to drastic changes in...

as I was trying to photog my shrimp, a couple catfish came up to say hi (heh, more like beg for food).

sorry it's dark and a bit blurry, shrimps went straight to hide in dark spots! I'll hit 'em with the flash after I clean my glass and they de-stress a bit. image removed, see post further down Of course, LFS didn't know what kind of shrimp it is... 100 kudos to the 1st correct ID ;)

yes, it's fuzzy and noisey, but hey, it's something roughly 270,000 miles away, so I can't exactly use a flash ;) ISO 100, 4 second exposure, compensation set to max, zoom full 8x opti and 4x digital

sorry, the pic is a bit out of focus - this guy is still on "super speed" due to the water temp being so high from the treatment...