Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.
Yeah we were all pretty shocked but it works, and the addition of one mp60 give me flow in the entire tank. I could probably add another pump, or if I went BB I could turn the 60 up, but then I would be worried about my fish.
Sorry for the delay: The under the sink pump is the Liberty Pumps 404 automatic drain pump 1/3hp.
Right now the return pump is a blueline 55 and a 45 is running the manifold. Originally we had a 70 on there, but the Elos overflows are rated for such low flow, we took it off. We still have the...
I understand being distracted in that store, lots of goodies. Ours is in our living room which we spend 99% of the time in our house (outside sleeping) and we have no issues with it.
If you have a refugium, turn the lights on the refugium at night, the opposite of your diplay lights. This will help to keep your PH stable over night.
If your tank and corals look fine, don't ever worry about it. One of the problems with PH probes is people try to chase the ideal PH and do...
I have the Elos 160xl, drilled on the bottom corner overflow. The comment I hear most on the tank it how quiet it is, so I don't think you have to worry there. Have you gone to the Elos Aqua Studio to see the tanks?
Hulas came from Ao. So far they are great, they swim together and are very fun to watch. Our tank has been at 75 so we will see how they do. Very happy Ora started breeding these guys.
+1 to the live blackworms. There are threads on RC where people built feeders for their BF to feed blackworms and other foods if they were really stubborn. BF are really cool, but since I have a reef I will have to live through yours.
99% of the time they are peaceful and just swim around not bothering anyone. The only time I saw any aggression at all is when I added the hawenisis anthias because they were roughly the same size and shape. The big borb would chase them around a bit, but after a few weeks nothing. Now they...
Yeah, go with the super flex PVC for the return pump up to the tank and visa versa. Ethan swears by it and it allowed us not to have many (if any at all) 90s. Another thing to think about is UV, we added one after years of being naysayers, and I think on a system that big, the good outweighs...
We have two, I think they are a pair, but they do just fine together.
As I said, not a cheap fish but the prices online are more than we paid. We got them from AO and Elos and did not pay what say Liveaquaria has them for. They fit what we want in the tank, reef safe, peaceful (for the most...
jgraz nailed it. It enables me to turn a valve, plug in pump one, plug in pump two, turn the valve back on and boom a 65g water change. No lifting, no carrying.
I am using the blue line pumps, I will check the numbers for you later. We changed them (went down) as the Elos overflow box likes...
Considering your build will be very very similiar to ours, I figured I would weigh in on a few things (also feel free to swing by if you want to check out Ethan's handy work in person for some ideas).
The slop sink is awesome to have and we would not really be able to function without it so...