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Advice plz....

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I have a 75 gal tank with 70lbs of live rock some softies1 lps, and 2 sps. I came into some money not much a couple of hundred. Well my wife said i can spend 100. Well my delima is that i need ro/di filters replaced, a heater that needs to be replaced, i have a hydrometer i would like to replace. Which would be the most important to replace?

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  1. Jessy's Avatar
    My order would be RO/DI and heater. Water quality is important but so is replacing a heater that could boil everything to bits
  2. diablo30xp's Avatar
    Thx Jessy i was leaning toward the same way as well just wanted some impute on it thx alot again.
  3. mledford's Avatar
    Sounds like the wife needs her priorities realigned.
  4. dahenley's Avatar
    you should be able to get the filters and the heater for 100$ and the hydrometer, i still use one on my 240 reef.... its not always the actual number of the parameter, its the consistency. so if its off, but consistent, then your not doing as much harm as an off parameter that fluctuates as your trying to achieve that special number....
  5. Jessy's Avatar
    BTW hate hate hate hydrometers. Much better off to spend $40-$50 on a refractometer.
  6. Jessy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by dahenley
    you should be able to get the filters and the heater for 100$ and the hydrometer,
    Agreed. Here is a full set including DI resin for $55 http://www.melevsreef.com/shop/f4.html
  7. Mostly Rock's Avatar
    I found a refractometer for 20 bucks @ an industrial tool supply place. I just found it again on e-crater for 24 plus shipping. http://www.ecrater.com/p/5141693/sal...ium-ocean-reef the quality of the tool is pretty close to identical to what I've seen at my LFS's refracts selling for 60 to 80 bucks, and in six months the only thing I've found to be sub par is that I have to re-calibrate it about once every two weeks. Not a big deal, just zero it with some ro/di water and your done, so I feel that it's a valuable find.