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so this is the communal tank? lol.....yeah,im already not liking this skimmer....as is, (for some reason) the In-Tank basket that was given to me as well, doesn't seem to fit into the compartment along with the skimmer....ive tried multiple ways to fit it in....it seems to be either 1 or the other

alright cool. I have some ideas and options now. checking out some of the retrofit fit like steve's led's and rapid led's, for the price that they are asking, I might as well go with my kessil on this tank. I am going to mull this over and see what I come up with. to be continued......

correct, this is a real time thread.....thank you for the info, ill take a peek and see what I find....I was looking at something like this to install. Current USA TrueLumen Pro LED Striplight the hood itself is 24'' in length, so I was thinking of installing 2-12'' strips into that hole...

being that this will be my 1st above ground display tank, so I will want this to look as sharp as possible. I really would hate to destroy the hood just to place a kessil on it. the way it is now, I would have to cut out a hole in the top and hang a pendant from the ceiling (which I am not in...

So, after taking my colleague reefers advice, I decided to remove the old light fixture.

that's what I was thinking too...I wanted to put the feelers out there to see if this is an easy fix....which I am sure it is not

the fans seem to be soldered on, so I am not sure if replacing them would be possible, and ballast may run me a few dollars which I really don't want to spend. now, on a side note, I do have 2 kessils lying around, 1 a360we. if you guys feel that it may not be worth it to fix, then I was...

so now here the dilemma, one thing I forgot to mention is that there is also a light timer tied into this system. with all this stuff going on under the hood, is it worth replacing? I can tell you now that these fans are shot which is what I think was making that noise (I have not plugged it...

now to the problem, the lights when I plugged in the lights, the fixture was making this horrible sound, almost like a stuck motor. so I decided to open up the hood and see what's inside. I think I have narrowed it down 2 one of 2 things. either the ballast or the fans. (this unit has 3 cooling...

now the skimmer, pretty straight forward on this. it just has an awkward design. if you saw the video in the earlier post, you'll see that it has almost a 45' angle on it which turn, takes up a ton of valuable real-estate in that rear chamber. its impossible to clean given its shape so I did...

so, with the one damaged pump, I decided to install 1 upgraded pump with the new fix-ins. now as you can see from the 3rd pic there is absolutely no wiggle room for this pump in that chamber. my biggest concern is that the pump may rattle against the glass and either break it or just make...

it's all good, thanx for the thumbs up on the project.

so when Karen gave me this tank, she also gave me a bag of goodies, with it. in this bag in particular, there were 2 pump upgrade kits. assuming, (I am not the only person who had a big question mark on his head when he saw the 2 pump thing), RS offered upgrade kits to the D series. in this kit...

lol, thank you sir, it came with instructions

the next thing I wanted to address was the equipment itself. 1st the pumps. to my surprise, this AIO tank, originally came with 2 return pumps which are supposed to be mounted in same chamber, side by side to fit into the 2 holes. here is where they are intended to go at 1st I didn't get...

I connected the lights this morning, plugged it in and everything turned on. so all is well for now

now, with this fancy plug/hub thing going here, my attention is now drawn to the main plug itself. apparently a previous owner (not Karen btw as this tank was given to her) had removed the ground plug, either that or it broke off somehow but in case it made me kinda nervous (given that lights...

thanx mike, I appreciate that, ill check it out today

thanx paul, actually I have hit a road block on this tank....you see in the upcoming posts

the 1st thing I noticed was the power hub. what they did was essentially notch out a section of the glass tank to house a discreet power strip with all your plugs to go into as you can see they also label each plug for you so that you know what controls what. so basically you plug all your...