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I see you have one of those tough bins from home depot in your sump, it came with a yellow top? I tried the same thing for a while but it took up too much room for me. You have any critters or fish in your sump to keep it clean
Take the pump off and pour water down overflow and into the return. If water comes out both where you disconnected pump then they're not clogged and it's the pump
I like the MH. T-5's don't give you the shimmer. I guess you could add some led's to get the shimmering effect but I don't know how it compares haven't seen it yet. MH been around forever if it ain't broke don't fix it. Also depends on what you wanna keep. What kind of corals do you have? Try...
My tank is 30" Deep x 6' long I have 4 lumenarc mini's over it with 250w. I have a radium 20 a reeflux 12 radium 20 and a reeflux 12. The color looks great. It's way brighter with all 10k over it but too yellow for me. I recently got 2 6' vho's a 03 and 454 and I'm gonna see how it looks with...