MarcosD
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Glad to hear you like it. I have two waiting to setup for both my tanks. Needed to order the sense/drive cable extensions and finally got them in but have been lazy to setup
Alex’s IM 150 EXT
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Alexander1312
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Same here - maybe I should thank RedSea that their ATO sucked so much that I was ultimately forced to do it. Next will be my frag tank where I replace the supper annoying (although reliable) Tunze ATO (old version).
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Alexander1312
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I got these two green beautiful plating montis from Andy / @ReyDeFarts and Derek / @derek_SR - currently parked in the nano tank but I am planning to move them soon to the IM 150. Thank you so much for them!
Since I want to mount them vertically plating away from the rock I came up with this brilliant idea to glue two small pieces of frag plates so that I can easily glue them to the rock while keeping the coral horizontal to the substrate. My hope is that once they grow over these plates this construction will not look as ugly anymore haha
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Since I want to mount them vertically plating away from the rock I came up with this brilliant idea to glue two small pieces of frag plates so that I can easily glue them to the rock while keeping the coral horizontal to the substrate. My hope is that once they grow over these plates this construction will not look as ugly anymore haha
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Alexander1312
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Cannot wait for my return flight as I am buying too many things here (Germany), and suitcases are already maxed out (still one more week to go). Looks like this will be the first time in years I will have to ship things back.
I have been looking at this pump for quite a while as a future replacement of my gyres, or at least the two vertical gyres I am using, potentially keeping the two below the water surface.
I got now a great deal for one pump in a store I had not been to before and thought I would try it out. If it works out I will buy another one for the other side. I do not think they can be properly positioned below the water surface, but I will still try this too.
I still think that gyres produce superior flow, but the cleaning is not fun, and every time I do I worry about breaking something - I bought a couple of new impellers for the XF350 while here since they cannot be purchased anywhere in the US from what I know.
These pumps seem to not need a lot of cleaning, apparently only every 6 months or less, and their flow seems massive. Will report back once I had a chance to try it out.
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I saw this video today when it was pushed out by Marine and Reef. Looks like this pump is 8 years old (!). Surprised nobody mentioned this or knew.
The interesting comment in this video was that it can connect to a Hydros controller while I thought this was not possible.
I asked the Hydros Facebook group and it looks like it can connect to the 0-10V quad cable and the Wave Engine. I did not know it had a cover on the top of the controller for the pump that, with the correct adapter cable from Hydros, would connect to the quad cable and then to the Wave Engine for custom flow.
If all of this works out, this could be a serious (vertical) gyre killer, and possibly could be mounted below the water surface (will try that).
Hydros Pump Adapter Cable - TUNZE 0-10V Pump Adapter
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Alexander1312
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Since you mentioned this, the situation deteriorated and they started fighting and the candy cane seems to win. So I will need to cut this candy cane too (cut the other one and gave several frags away recently), but have no space to put all the frags
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Candy cane is always a good seller to new folks, bring a bunch to @under_water_ninja !