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Good catch Marcus! Your Apex screaming at you with an alarm is like your wife, listen to it next time! :eek: Definitely dual heaters and through a controller, but my other piece of advice, and it sounds like you were set, is to have a spare heater ready to go.

Are you able to go straight up? What's the underside of the stand made of? EDIT TO ADD: Oops....just went back and looked at your picture and it looks like the underside is the bottom glass of the tank. What are those black plywood looking portions? Could you hook into them somehow?

Looking good. I'd include a hanging strap on that return line to keep any movement from torquing the bulkhead.

Go to the top of this page and on the right side you'll see an "RSVP"......click on that and then highlight "going" and click "GO"....and you're in. By the way, welcome!

CO2 scrubbers get expensive real fast. You'd be better off running an airline outside to feed your skimmer fresh air.

Thanks for sharing....interesting. However, there is a balance in that the reefs also need the urchins. When the urchins died in Florida in the mid to late 70's from (they believe) a viral/bacterial attack, the reefs ended up dying from becoming overgrow by algae. So we need both the...

Take the sump off line...maybe put a heater up in the DT, and switch out the sump.....no problem.

Looks like you're on the right path....good news!

The only sure way to know is to test the tank. Drop the tank off at my house and I'll test it for you......note, my testing might take ten years or so. :eek:. :rolleyes::cool: Steve, you should be fine.

I recently went through this with a red and black cucumber (in a 90 gallon DT). I lost four fish.....no corals. As suggested, run carbon and make water for a water change. Your large volume will certainly help.

Thanks Marcus.......I'm in! I'm going to be positive and say, when I win, I'm hoping to find someone to swap for Instant Ocean. :eek:

Both are forms of carbon dosing (feeding bacteria), but the difference I liked over biopellets is that it only fed the bacteria in the reactor....which when sloughed, ideally got picked up by your skimmer. With liquid carbon dosing (vinegar/vodka), you are feeding any and all bacteria in your...

I am constantly amazed at the new things I learn about my tank.....equipment, maintenance, live stock, etc. I started running biopellets in June of 2013....a JNS Alpha 2 Biopellet Reactor. Here it is right after I set it up: Being a man, I never read the manual....just set it up, filled it...

I forgot I still had this.......and could bring it to the meeting at Herb's.

I'm in! I'll be bringing brownies.

I'd go with the skimmer. Even though it's not the best way to run GFO, you could always throw it in a media bag and dump it somewhere.

Wow! Very nicely done Paul....it's like Steampunk meets Lava Lamp. That's pretty cool.

Think BIG

Or be Stretch Armstrong

Hold on one minute..........Something doesn't add up??? The dimensions are listed as 84 by 84 by 36.....with four sides 72 inches and four sides 36 inches. I went to do some quick calculations assuming the tank looked like this: I got the smallest length at 123 inches??? Am I missing...