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  1. General Reef Discussion
    so i have wanted a achillies and or a gold rim tang for quite some time now and i was just wondering what makes them so hard to take care of and are there any secrets or tricks to keeping them alive and healthy thanks -jared
  2. General Reef Discussion
    Hey guys! I had a question. When calculating flow rate for the tank I do the simple equation of powerheads + sump pump/ gallons of water = flow in system... Now.. I was wondering, since I just set up my first sump, do I use the entire water volume of the entire system or do I just use the DT...
  3. The THINK Tank
    I am hearing conflicting opinions on sump flow rate. Some are saying to match to skimmer processing rate and others say up to 5X tank volume. I have also heard that for a Bare Bottom you want 10X or more. Lets examine a skimmer in the sump and the inlet and outlet in the same chamber. The...
  4. General Reef Discussion
    My question is related to flow. To start will be LPS / Softies with a move to SPS. I've recently put up a new 90 that is going to be partial reef to begin and then grow from there. Over the years i've done FOWLR and in my 150 I've had 3 Koralia Evolution 1050's. In my 90 i've put 2 - Jebao...
  5. Substrate Free Tank Husbandry (Bare bottomed)
    I hear all the time that you can never have "too much" flow in your tank. I currently have a 14G Biocube and since I'm going BB, is two hydor koralia nano 425s and a sicce syncra 185 gph return pump enough for my tank? Not enough? Too much? I don't want to go overkill because too much of...
  6. 20 Gallon Reef

    20 gallon reef. New setup
  7. My Hd (cake-topper) Tank

    Fish/coral 75g bow tank
  8. Water movement (pumps & wavemakers)
    I posted this in an other section with only two responses with opposite opinions so I figured this maybe a better place to ask. I have a 3 gallon Picotope that has been running for a few weeks now. Its doing really well and I just added a Hydor Koralia 240 to the tank to increase the flow. I've...
  9. General Reef Discussion
    Hi! I've been stalking your forum for 6 months now!! and after a ton of research I decided to go for a 55 gallon reef tank! please keep in mind that this is the first fish tank I've ever had in my entire life but me and the wife are very excited about this project. I let the tank cycle for a...
  10. General Reef Discussion
    alrighty so after using a head pressure calculator my eheim 1250 will only have an output of 136 gph, but my skimmer will do 92gph. so i will want to scale my pump output back to 92 gph aswell. my emperor uv sterilizer needs only 60gph to kill viruses. here is a crude picture of the design...
  11. General Reef Discussion
    I will be getting a new tank this summer and am looking at a 120+ gal. Reef ready tank most likely w/55gal sump. My question is on the overflows. I need to know if its better to have 1 in each corner or 1 larger one in the center? I'm sure there are advantages to both but I would like to here...
  12. Water movement (pumps & wavemakers)
    The idea is to use one large return pump and divert off of it through my chiller/heater, UV, and Canister filter. I want to turn my 150 gallon tank and sump over at least 4 times, so I am going to want to monitor how many GPH are going to the tank and to this secondary loop. What do you think...
  13. Anemone!

  14. General Reef Discussion
    I am currently trying to decide on a return pump for my new 120 im building. The built in overflow says its rated "up to" 700gph which seems pretty low for a 120. The skimmers pump says it pumps 900gph so I would assume I want to match that? I was thinking of a mag 12 which at 5ft head (which is...
  15. Growth On Pipe Organ Coral

    I've got some green pip organ coral but when the polyps aren't out I noticed some sort of red tu e looming stuff growing between them, what could it be?
  16. Perculas

    They have darkened up quite a bit since they had been without an anemone for 8 or so months.
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