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Tank looks great john. Love those huge euphyllia.

Very nice! I too need to come see your stuff. My parents live a few minutes from you and I'm there at least every 2 weeks.

You can also check out the new reactors from synergy reef.

Looks great!

I dip LPS and softies in either coral rx or revive. I also dip zoas/palys in peroxide on occasion. For SPS I usually use the Bayer unless it's a sensitive species.

Two different places and owners. The one in the story is tropicorium the store here in jersey is tropaquarium. No ties to each other that I am aware of

I was going to make a topic along the same lines the other day. I was sending a text to someone and my phone autocorrected "rank" to "tank".

I would clean the sponge every few days And change your carbon about once a month. It's perfectly normal for the sand to be pushed around a bit by the flow coming from the power heads. Have you by any chance tested the water you are buying?

I don't think you need to scrap the idea. I would set up your rodi like in the thread I linked if it turns out you have high co2. I would plumb the rodi after the water treatment equipment you have already installed. With a little planning you should be able to work it out.

I would suggest rinsing the sponge every few days. If you want take it out and just use the filter to run carbon and gfo. I personally would keep it and just make sure I kept it cleaned every few days. Also check inside the filter itself and see if there is any trapped debris in it. If...

This thread has some good info for your situation. http://www.njreefers.org/showthread.php?81707-RO-DI-woes

Reason I asked is because the Red Sea kits I used to have had a high and a low reading. To get the high reading tank water would be diluted with rodi water prior to the test. I don't think the API kit is this way though. Have you cleaned the sponge at all?

What kit are you using to test your nitrates?

Thanks Paul. The plan is to get the inside painted this weekend and hopefully start working on a sump. What kind of paint would you recommend? Latex?

Stand is finally done!

Just saw you were from Jackson, I grew up there and my parents still live there. Let me know if you need any help with anything I usually go up there every 2 weeks or so.

Lol any excuse for new equipment is a good one in my book. With a return pump you want to shoot towards about a 5-10x turn over rate. So for a 180 anywhere from 900-1800 gph depending on what your overflows can handle. You want to has the majority of your flow in the tank to come from...

I would say so. If that pump is a barracuda it will be pushing 3100 gph at 12' of head. I would try to be more around 1800gph at the tank at most. I recently used a blueline 70 on a 210 that was between 10'-12' feet of head and I had to dial it back a bit with a ball valve.

That reeflow pump should be more than sufficient for a tank that size. I would say too big. You can look into the diablos or something like a blueline 55 or blueline 70.