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    Need moving advice/tubs etc.

    Chicken - Your offer of the large tub sounds like it could be very helpful! What size vehicle would I need to pick it up? And thanks Eileen for the offer to help move! I may end up needing help doing the plumbing - I've actually never set up a tank/sump etc. from scratch as my current system...
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    Need moving advice/tubs etc.

    Whoops - I thought I'd get email notification if there were replies - truly didn't mean to ignore y'all! I don't have an estimated date for the move yet - I guess it depends on when I work up the courage to dismantle the tank - but likely sometime in the next month. I agree with the...
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    Need moving advice/tubs etc.

    It appears to be time to rip out the living room carpet and put down laminate. All good, except for the 155 Gallon bowfront on the carpet :( . I bought the tank used about 6 years ago, I think he had had it for at least 5 years before that. So I'm thinking though it would probably be just...
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    Whats the hip 250 watt, 10 K ish bulb?

    Did you figure it out? My 10K XM bulbs run on e-ballast just fine but I once got new ones that never fired, they replaced them and I've never had another problem (except when they get too old they fire unreliably, then I look it up and see I'm over due to change them out anyway).
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    Question for you vortec users

    Vortechs are definitely not a "must-have" but for me they are a "sure-do-like-them"! My tangs have a great time with the wave motion, they no longer pace, and the water surface is always "boiling" keeping the water cooler and the evaporation rate high (good for kalk replacement). Tank looks...
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    LE Paletta lovelli

    I'd love to grow out a frag, but don't yet qualify for #3 as I don't think I have any rare pieces to put into DBTC. Maybe by next time! Too bad, I could have brought you back your ice cream (minus the key lime we ate) ;D Johara
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    I am here!....New member!.......RRRR-Roar of the crowd!

    how about the tank? I mean the part with fish and corals ;)
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    I am here!....New member!.......RRRR-Roar of the crowd!

    ...and has a 155 bowfront. We chatted on RC about your superior packing skills getting all your equipment into that 155 bowfront stand. I did get inspired by your nice clean pictures and cleaned out a lot of junk and organized my electrical spaghetti. I still overflow into a smaller cabinet...
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    So how large of a footprint do our reef tanks put down?

    No, not stupid at all, I was just curious. Makes sense for your system. My top-off is all kalk, which I keep mixed in a 90G reservoir. Using RO took a day and a half to refill it, and I was always worried I'd forget about it and overflow, plus I felt terrible watching the waste at a steady...
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    So how large of a footprint do our reef tanks put down?

    Eileen - I'm curious why you decided to use tap for water changes, but not top-off? Norman - how does the "direct feed to skimmer from Calfo overflow" work? Any pics?
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    So how large of a footprint do our reef tanks put down?

    This is a great thread and a topic to keep alive. Whenever people get creative about doing the things they love with less impact on the environment, rather than browbeating about the terrible people they are for using energy, we make some progress. Small changes are still better than denial...
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    you guys should check out this thread. - lots of pics

    WOW! Thanks for the link, my jaw dropped at a few of those pics!
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    SPS with polyp extension

    Patrick - I was noticing the same thing, polyps not extending that used to. checked all my params, everything seemed fine and I was mystified til last night when I saw a nasty ugly hairy crab in the middle of an acro colony calmly pulling out polyps and eating them one by one! The thing is a...
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    how many fish would you put in a 120?

    Do you know what your phosphate and nitrate levels are? That would help you decide. I have a similar fish load to what you propose (with the new fish) in a slightly larger tank (155) and am doing fine. I do need to have phosban in the sump though, and I do have a skimmer, though I didn't for...
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    Just for fun - what was the most stupid thing you ever tried in this hobby?

    I'm there with you with the floods!! It's bad when the equipment rental supply place that has the industrial size fans knows you by name! It sure would be nice to just use tap water and not waste so much water making RODI as well as minimizing the forgetful flooding. Maybe I'll experiment for...
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