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    How important is Protein Skimmer placement?

    I am going to be using an old wet/dry unit as my sump/fuge. I was planning to use the same pump as both my return and to power the skimmer, as it has a lot of excess capacity.(my skimmer came without a pump) But, this places my skimmer AFTER the refugium. Everything I've read says flow should...
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    Upgrade from 40 to 72

    I've had my 40 gallon reef up for about a year. Recently, I've become "less than satisfied" with it and looked to upgrade a bit in size. Ogre997 had just recently completed his own upgrade(72 to 175 - some upgrade), and so had a 72 gallon bowfront he no longer needed. I snapped that up from him...
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    Overdriving Fluorescent lights

    I'd never even heard of this practice, till I ran across this Wiki page by accident. (I was looking for info on PC lighting degradation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdriven_fluorescent_light It doesn't sound like a particularly safe practice. Anybody here ever try overdriving?
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    Controlling Star Polyp growth

    I added a couple different types of Star polyps to my reef a few months back. Now, I see both of them starting to spread out a bit. Which is OK for now, but I forsee a time coming soon when I may want to limit their quest for world domination. When they expand, they seem to do so by extruding a...
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