Hello All, I'm in the process of setting-up my first aquarium: 180g reef. 6'x2'x2' Have been reading, studying and planning since December 2009. Since I'm new to Reefkeeping, and since I received so much great info and help from Melev and this site (Marc recently made a sump for me - EXCELLENT QUALITY & WORKMANSHIP), I may have some info that can help someone. I'm putting the aquarium in my dining room. The rear wall (which will be behind the aquarium) is 13' wide, ...
Since I picked up the new tank and equipment, one the major issues that I am trying to tackle with this build is what to do with the 2 Dart Pumps. I have decided to create 2 closed loops. Here is the plan below. Please let me know your comments since I am going into uncharted territory
It took three of us 5 hours yesterday to pull out the sump and get it set up in the livingroom. It's a horrendous science experiment now, eating up tons of space and looking truly insane. Amazingly, all was accomplished without a single run to Home Depot. Full Tank Shot for August! ...
So I have been thinking about doing this for a few weeks and finally getting around to it after trying to get the nitrates down though regular water changes etc. After thinking about it I decided to use the media tray area in my sump made it real easy. Where the red arrow is pointed. So after taken the media tray out I put in some egg crate in its place, was added to support the screen which went on top of the egg crate like so. I purchased the screen at ...
I have a bad case of the dino's and can't get rid of it. My tank is a 75g 55 gal sump section and fuge in one tank. My parameters are ammonia 0 Sg 1.026 ph 8.4 nitrates 0 nitrites 0 phos. 0 mg. 1400 cal 430 dkh 9 I have 4 t5 and they are ati bulbs. Got them 3 months ago. I run my lights from 8:30 am to 8:00pm. Can't find a way to get a handle on this and its frustrating me. I have this problem for about 2 weeks. I heard of raising ph but ...
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