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I deffinately see it being an issue but still some dont... They inlets have strainers on them but they strainers arent fine strainers so I am sure food, small snails could make it down there..

As some of you know I orginally built my 180 with a closed loop consisting of two 1.5" inlets and four 1" outlets. The four outlets are down low in the tank and were going to run my spray bar setup. This was also all built when I planned on staying BB. Anyway I shut the closed loop off a few...

finally got him yesterday, waited til feeding time, fed pretty heavy and got my biggest net, waited for him to come up and bam got him along with 304 other fish... Beautiful looking fish but im glad he is out of there

What kind of skimmer would you guys recommend for a 55gal reef? I always end up over killing on skimming which in my eyes is never a bad thing, right now I have an kent nautilus ex skimmer with mag 18 on there right now and I just think its too much lots of churning and bubbles in the sump, I...

Im finally getting rid of my flame angel as Im now have seen him numerous times nipping at my SPS, he is fine with softies so he will be going in my girlfriends tank with only soft corals. Ive been trying for about 4 hours to catch this guy, keeping putting in food, turned the lights off etc...

great documentation, really looking forward to watching this thread as I am seriously looking into vodka dosing in my 180

I had to make a new rack for them all though lol

thanks everyone for the great remarks. Today I deffinately noticed the heat in the water, not sure how warm because I didnt have my temp monitor on since I did all the wood work yesterday. Im hoping it was because I turned the a/c off last night and opened some windows in the room since it was...

im going to put a fan in there, just trying to see where I can pull the fresh air from

my biggest concern now is heat. I have central air but in the fish room I also have a window unit and keep it nice and cold in there and my temp with the 3-250w halides hasnt gone above 81*'F without a chiller. I have no problem buying a chiller, it is just I have no clue where it would be able...

I wish, no fish room just the cabinet underneath is fully loaded, i need to make that nice and neat next. plus when I need more room i have the closet next to it...

Finally made my tank officially an in wall tank. Finished off the cabinets underneath and put the top peice on. Didnt come out exactly how I wanted it to but it still looks really good for the crappy A/C sofits that were in the way.

I have seen the graphs and I have both 14k and 20ks on my system and there is a diffrence. Even go look at aftermarket HID car headlight charts there is a huge difference in 10k, 14k and 20k

MRC just ties the to becketts together with a T. I dont see it being able to handle being fed by 2 big pumps, i needs to have a certain flow rate so unless you have to undersized pumps that equal up to the recomended flow I would just stick with the current pump you are using now

well I ended up going with DAs ReefKeep Elite. Just got it in today and reading through the manual this thing sounds pretty bad a$$. Looks like I got my reading set for awhile, espeically since I went the odd ball route and not with the AC 3 but so far I really like what the RK has to offer. Ill...

I hope so wendy, I really wanted a big massive skimmer, but I guess this is all im squeezing in the sump in the first chamber. Its on a 180 and I really like to oversize filters too, i think this is good for 300gal right? Would like one for 500gal but this will work lol... Though my MRC MR-2 is...

I purchased from Will from AO... obviously he goes through a few different vendors but he always has some great prices and gets the product ASAP

Well I made a decision today to go with the Octopus Pro 300 for a few reasons. One my sump was not bigg enough for even the Extreme 250, despite my huge sump the first chamber is only 15x14. Also heard numerous people complain about the mesh on the pump and honestly its not worth the headache in...

im in the same boat as you phil. Right now Im between an ASM G4X mainly because everyone swears by them, MSX and the Octopus. Im leaning away from MSX due to their whole being hobbyists who build skimmers at night deal only because I know parts will be very hard to come by with their extrememly...

Steve I was thinking the RKElite myself, but wanted some input because I do hear a lot of the ACs but again havent really seen them in use.