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Ok.. I finally got some pics taken of the sump area.. They are quick shots.. If you have any questions I'll try my best to answer..

Wow..This is terrible..

I have a build thread on here titled My New Project With more pics of its progress..

Mine is in wall with the front facing the living room and the back sitting in its own room where I joined 2 closets and turned a spare bedroom into a fish room where all the equipment and fish stuff is kept.. Front: Old shot of the back before I finished working on it:

My MR2 is rated at about 300 gallons of heavy bio load with 1 injector, add the second injector like mine and it goes up, Recirc it and it goes up to about 450 gallons of heavy bioload.. Once I add a 24" riser to the body it will be inline with about 700 gallons.. The total volume of my system...

This is it running for about 2 days: Bubbles: Waste after 2 days: Waste after about a week: and a pic from just now.. So 2 weeks or so..: They are not cheap by any means... But they are worth every penny after using one and seeing it in action..

CSS can be annoying as hell if you dont keep the water level very very stable.. When I had mine, If the water level dropped 1/4" it would stop skimming properly.. I ended up swapping to a Octopus 150 and it was amazing the difference it made. Then when I set up my new tank I sold the octo and...

Originally Posted by lol Nice. Can't wait to see more pics. Can you get some better shots of your sump setup? Dude.. Im so sorry for not getting those pictures.. I have been laid up, I hurt my back a few weeks ago and it has gotten worse in the last few days.. I spent about 6 hours in the ER...

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Originally Posted by lol Nice. Can't wait to see more pics. Can you get some better shots of your sump setup? Sure, I will shoot them in the morning.. Theres not much to see.. All my equipment is external except the return pump. I also have a plastic container in there thats full of chaeto...

Originally Posted by florida joe wow Joey likes Its a double edged sword.. Skims great and really cleans up.. Smells like a rotting body.. Take the good with the bad I suppose.

No worrie..lol Well I did an unexpected water change this morning.. Seemed to have left on my RO drip into the sump. No overflow or anything like that. I went ahead and did a water change while I was draining the sump(thank god for that drain line I plumbed into an extra bulkhead in the sump)...

I'm somewhat of a regular..LOL.. Happen to be the 2010 President.. Look at my title under my screenname here.. You will make the connection.. :) Originally Posted by RyanT Nice to see someone from Ga on here. You referred to the "meeting" im guessing your talking bout ARC. Im reg on there as...

Originally Posted by bionicarm When they interviewed the guy in this runaway Prius, he emphasized that there was nothing wrong with his mat, and the mat wasn't causing the obstruction. He actually bent down and tried pulling the pedal up with his hand while he was going this 90+ down the road...

Its a My Reef Creations MR2 with dual becketts... Its been running almost a week or so.. Im going to go take a new picture of the skimmate!!! Not to ba for a week or so worth of skimming.. There are more pics in my half arsed build thread also..

Originally Posted by florida joe My old friend I am sure I need not remind you that I am STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS That goes without saying after all this time.. LOL My wife reminds me that I am since I have been showing off all the skimmate from my new skimmer.. I cant help it.. It...

Awesome thread Joe.. I was really interested the whole time I was reading.. Grade A as always..

A good friend of mine is a Toyota mechanic.. He told me one of the main things they are doing for recall is cutting away part of the carpet and padding under the gas peddle.. That one of the issues is the peddle is physically hanging up on the floor board from extra thick padding.. Not sure if...

Originally Posted by smoothie Nice Ansley! Sorry about those super white bulbs again. Hope you can trade them for something since they were new. PS- Send me a pm on where to get those screens eh, No worries at all.. Im picking up 2 Super Actinic bulbs from someone at the meeting tonight.. So I...