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Yes Yes and please Look for Kessil and give us the scoop on the 350A.

Please give us a full recap about your experience. I've never been to this particular show.

Yes - hydnophora - I would agree with that. It's definitely on the fair side...ever since I got the LED lighting. It might do better if it were farther down in the water column.

To add a few more thoughts:

I love the Dart pumps. I have two on my system, one for the return pump and one for my manifold. I ran a similar set up on the 280g and never regretted that decision.



To drill a bigger hole over an existing one, drill the correct sized hole in a piece of plywood, then doublestick tape that to your glass surface with the old hole in the center. I would even put a small 1/2" spacer between the board and the glass, but make sure it is secure. If you have a helper, their job is to make sure that board (now the drill guide) does NOT move. Wear ear protection, as drilling glass is about as bad as nails on a chalkboard but louder. With some running water to lubricate the diamond hole saw's blade, begin drilling out the new hole. Once you've drilled it enough to score it about 1/8" deep, you can remove the guide, or you can leave it there for the entire process.

Make sure a towel is inside the tank under where the hole is being drilled so the piece that cuts and falls doesn't chip to opposing side.

The "I thought it was a green slimer" is a Hynophora, and appears to be bleached.
The "this is a green slimer" is more than likely an acropora, but not A. yongei.

Thanks for sharing all your pictures with us.

Awesome Pics. Lookin good!

Great pics. Thanks for the update! The Scoly appears to be a Wellsophylia, and the zoas do appear to be Eagle Eyes. Blonde Naso's are one of my favorites. Gorgeous fish!

Lovely tank. Thanks again. :-)

Thanks for the input, trplx. That's what I needed to hear!

I don't have or have never had a genx pump but I do have a iwaki MD70 and a reeflow dart and the the dart in my opinion is far better. When I first plugged in my dart I couldn't tell if it was even running it was so quiet. As far as the hole in the sump I wouldn't dremmel it. And you can run a 1 1/2" feed line for the dart. That will require you to drill a 2 3/8" hole. If you have enough room around your existing hole ie. it's not too close to the edge of the glass you should be able to use a bigger hole saw and drill out a bigger hole around the existing one. At least that's what I would do. I love my dart and when I set up my 180 I will for sure use a reeflow pump. Well worth the money in my opinion. My iwaki is sitting on the self collecting dust.

My other question would be about whether it's easy/difficult to open up a glass hole (haha) to fit a 2" bulkhead instead of the previous 1". The reeflo wants a HUGE feed. Dremmel time? Any advice?

There's a tiny little crab in this acro. I guess he's less than a half inch across and very crotchety.

forgot my favorite addition:

I think this is a german blue monty-digi: I have one it should be brown with blue poylps but the skeleton looks right it grows different then the rest of my monti and at twice the rate
I love frags they are like crack :P

Beautiful corals, BlennyMan!

its not illegal but what ive been told is that in order to have the fish cross the boarder they need paper and stuff which are expensive

Vivid aquariums

Austin Aqua farms

Cherry corals

What's up with that Steve? Is it illegal there? Sounds like a business opportunity...

luck no one shipps to canada so i got no acces to online fish and corals and the few that do all charge 200+ for shipping alone

www.thecoralnut.com

Dave is amazing!

I made my own reactor it hold 2 1/2 to 3 cups and run it off a rio600 pump it just lays in the sump killed the smell in 4 days and a noticeably clearer water. Only cost about 3 dollars to make it. I just was concerned about lld in my tangs but I think Ill just run it as needed may be 2 or 3weeks at a time then same time with out.