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hi all. i need to find a quieter return pump before the wife flips out. i'm running the little giant and it's a little less flow than i want, and way too loud. i can go to 1.5" intake. i'm looking for something that'll flow around 1700-2000 gph.
the snapper would be good but i would have to reduce the intake a bit. any ideas? panworld 200, gen x pcx-150.
thanks
mark

I want to hook up timers to my lighting system. Each light, fans, and moonlight has a seperate wire. I went to Lowes the other day and seen what they have to offer. Is this where y'all get ya timers from or do they have some other place with timers with a little more control? I noticed they had timers with 1,2, and 3 plugs on them but they could not be seperately controlled. Do they make timers that can have multiple plugs with seperate controls?

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so Im having trouble maintaining the temperature at 79 in my 55 gallon with 20 g sump with about 15 g of water in it. Im running 1 150 watt in the return section and 1 100 watt heater in the 2.5 refugium. and 1 100 watt heater in the overflow section of my sump am I better off having one heater or 2? or is more the better? should i have one in the tank?

I completly redesigned my sump and replumbed my whole system will post pics when its completly finished

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So I have a chemistry final today and I am stuck on one of my review problems and the prof. doesn't want to help me set this up to get the correct answer, I believe because a similar problem will be on the exam. Anyway if anybody is a chem major/teacher/enthusiast/just knows some chemistry can you help me out? Here is the problem that has kept me awake the past few nights (and for once its not the fault of my tank!):

A 100.g iron ball(specific Heat = 0.473 J/g*C) is heated to 125*C ...

Well, after I set up my new tank I was feeling very pleased with myself, but reality would soon kick me in the testes once again as I have cyano covering all the sand and some rock. I attribute it to the stress of moving everything over to the new tank and the increased bioload of a couple new fishes. I think in addition to this, taking the system off of full zeo didn't help things much. I had a terrible time with getting the nutrients just right with zeo, mostly just starved the corals. I had ...