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Time for an update. Tank has been running really well. After much thought and research, I started Vodka about 6 weeks ago and MB7 a week ago. To put it in simple terms, I am "shocked" by how well this regiment works if done right. I've done this hobby for a while and have never had such a...

How come nobody uses brine anymore? it seems like it's out of fashion for both fish and coral?

I'm doing a titanium heater using a RKL.

Tried the tunze silence and heard bad reviews about the quiet one. I switched to an Eheim and will never use anything else.

Thanks for comments. I did try to think this through and am pretty happy with the setup. Part of having everything fit inside the stand lead me to keeping things really compact. I didn't opt for the taller sump for two reasons. The fist was to allow taking the skimmer out for service which...

so my tank has been running now for just about 6 weeks and i did a water chemistry yesterday. I finally got the kits I ordered online, so this is the first time i test parameters other than salinity. i have also been dosing blindly by "feel" over the last few weeks. Sg:1.023 PH:7.9...

Here is a fts thats 2 weeks old and a quick attempt at youtube. Check out how friendly the yellow tang is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfggtsQb0So

A few days later I found a guy who was tearing down his 350gal FOWLR so I stopped by to pick up some live rock. He had a nice collection of big and nice looking pieces. Half an hour later I left his house with another ~35lbs. I got home and 2 hours later after fiddling with the drill and acrylic...

I let the water mix for a couple of days until it cleared up and I got the salinity just about where i wanted. A gentleman on RC offered some dry rock that he had laying in a bucket in his garage for a while. I picked up the rock which was about 25-30lbs along with a 25lb bag of live sand...

more progress... Now it's time to fill up with water. I borrowed all the jugs in addition to the 4 I had. Went and filled up with Santa Clara tap water, jk RO water from the store by my house and started dumping it in the tank. Go go blizzard. Salt mixing with a...

The plumbing started. My plan was to paint all the external PVC black such that it blends in behind the stand. I added a T with a 3/4 female and plug after the return for future reactor(s), and accessories. Return piping is 1" reduced to 3/4 at the tank inlet. After all the pieces were...

I want to use a 5-gal jug as a top of reservoir to be placed right on top of the sump. I built a simple shelf ontop of the sump that is nailed into the stand walls. The shelf is about half an inch higher than the sump lip so it's not physically touching.

A friend talked me into fabricating my own baffles for the sump. Initially I was a little intimidated since I've never worked with acrylic before but it turned out to be pretty straight forward. I came up with some baffle measurements and made a run to Tap plastics. First chamber...

Here is the new bubble magus NCA7 that i bought from neptune. I was planning on using the 3+ initially then Robert talked me into the bigger one which I'm glad I got. My lights arrived in the mail. I went with the Oddysea pendant. Yes, i know its cheap... but the recent reviews have been...

So this tank is in my living room. My top two priorities are the following: 1. Keep it as quiet as possible. I don't want to hear it over the kitchen fridge. 2. Very clean all enclosed setup with a single cord exiting the stand. My stand dimensions are 36 x 18 x 30. I chose to start...

a day later, my overflow and return kit arrived. I gotta say, drilling glass is extremely nervy stuff. Here are some pics of the overflow and return installed. I chose to do center on the overflow for aesthetics. i drilled a hole for the return as well, will look a lot cleaner than running...

Tank and stand arrived a week later for me to pick up. I couldn't do anything for about a week because of work and rain. came sunshine, i went out to the backyard with a can of flat black and went to work. I was very diligent with the painter's masking tape and covered every surface...

So about 2.5 months ago I saw the rimless illuminata at Neptune and just loved the clean look. I miss the beauty of a nice clean reef aquarium but don't miss the headaches. My plan is to keep things simple and hopefully self sufficient. After a bit of thinking and some research, here is...

I'm in Santa Clara. Glue and epoxy is overrated imo, i read some yo mad spellz that I learned from this show in Vegas and that works pretty dang well!. JK, acrylic rods running throughout brotha. Tank journal coming soon...

Paypal done. Thanks for the welcome. FTS as of two weeks ago, boy i'm full to the rim with corals!