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  1. Red leaf lettuce

    Red leaf lettuce, is this good to have growing in my tank? It Started growing out of the blue, no its the size of a softball. Do I keep it in tank or put in the refuge?
  2. Another big sump gone

    I ship a lot of sumps, but the ones that need to be crated seem to be more important, so I'm sharing.

    This one is made with 3/8" cast acrylic, and is 48" x 24" x 16". It's a tough sump. This is the front of the sump. It will be installed in a basement with the refugium side up against a wall.



    The three zoned sump provides both a skimmer section, a long refugium zone, and a large return ...
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  3. Sump for a fellow reefer

    A fellow reefer in the Charlotte are asked me to build him a sump. He was very opposed to have to take down or drain his reef to add a new sump so we opted to just add another chamber to his existing filtration. His goals were to get things cleaned up and set up his filtration better. He originally had an old style trickle filter with some live rock and a berlin turbo skimmer.

    Our plan was to remove the live rock and turn that chamber into a refugium. I had an old Octo skimmer that ...
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  4. what do you feed your fish?

    hey everyone I have a Question and want to see some different ideas

    So Ive had my tank for about 3 years now and I feed brineship and misys shrimp.

    What does everyone else feed ?
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  5. Challenge accepted!

    Two big sumps had to ship this week, requiring that they be crated and shipped Fedex Freight. To keep costs reasonable, I had to load these up in my trailer one at a time and drive them to Fedex Freight myself, rather than have a truck pick up at my location. They add charges if you need a lift gate, if you need a fork lift, if you are in a residential area, etc. My trailer has always been useful, back when I was cleaning floors, as well as during my carpentry days... plus all the remodeling ...
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