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  1. Repairing Leaking Sump

    I mixed up around 180G of sea water and started to fill my tank and sump. Once I had the whole system filled and running I noticed that there was water next to my sump. The next morning a noticed a little more water and I started to worry. Luckily when I had my tank built I had them put an acrylic liner along the entire length of the tank. That way if there is a leak in the system it will save the floor. The liner has a 5 inch edge around it creating a bowl. This has saved my many times over ...
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  2. Tuning the snapper for BEP - some experimentation

    by , 10-22-2012 at 09:44 PM (180g Tank Build - 11 mos. and counting.)
    Well, I finally finished installing the snapper pump. I learned a few things along the way and I'll try to give you as unbiased account as I can here.

    First thing - I'm going to take a quick tangent here and report some about my personal experience with reeflo quality. I opened up my brand new reeflo pump and found the dart impeller cracked right through the middle upon arrival. It was as if someone had tightened it too much or it was subjected to an extreme temperature difference ...
  3. Copepods

    Check out all the little critters in my sump

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  4. my diy miltichip led project

  5. Future Option for Adjusting LED Colour and Intensity Outputs aka Controller in a Bulb

    by , 10-17-2012 at 09:30 PM (T.I.B.E.T (The Incredibly Big Expensive Tank))
    I was clicking through Kickstarter and saw this, the LIFX light bulb. "LIFX is a WiFi enabled, multi-color, energy efficient LED light bulb that you control with your iPhone or Android."

    Think of the implications for controllers, and reef tech. Crap, everything is going to be wifi enabled soon isn't it?

    Kickstarter link:
    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...d?ref=category

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