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This is a thriving reef tank, nearly a year running. The tank is very mature and I don't even need to monitor water values any more. I do approximately 20 gallon water changes every 3-4 weeks to keep everything happy. The tank really is thriving, great growth from all of the corals and is set...

I might have to come pick your brain a bit one of these days... I am looking for a big tank to be a room seperator at my new house, but I haven't had much luck. As such, I am considering a big plywood tank.

2 29's is probably a good option. A HOB overflow would be an easy way to get it up and running quickly, but if the tanks are approximately the same height, will there be enough gravity to maintain a solid syphon?

It is most certainly a BTA and most certainly ate the fish. I could feel the fish within its stomach. heh

Not huge, but decent size. 6" across fully open, maybe?

As some of you know, I've mysteriously lost 3 fish over the last few months. I was never able to pinpoint how they died and I never recovered 2/3 bodies. I had my guesses, but could never be sure. After not losing anything else in the tank and not figuring out what the problem was, I started...

This is a 150g tank and yes, I have an external pump.

Originally Posted by Bronco300 be easy to do yourself to, i have a dremel you can borrow...i did my 75 and a 10 I have a dremel... what is the process? What bits do you use?

hrm.. I was thinking bulkhead toward the top of the tank. If the bulkhead was in the middle, that would probably work fine. I think that would definitely be the best route.... I'll have to look into getting tanks drilled.

Originally Posted by Bronco300 can you not drill a tiny hole in your return pipe under the water level so it'll stop the syphon? Done. Even w/o any syphon at all, I get a lot of water from my corner overflows.

I thought about drilling the tanks and connecting them together, but I cannot think of a way that it will ultimately give me more backflow capacity unless I run the second tank nearly empty w/ just a couple of inches of water. That, of course, is problematic because of evaporation.

Looks good. I am jealous... I want to do a big tank. I won't do one until I buy another house and do a big in-wall, though.

Currently, I have a 20g sump set up and I maintain about 7 inches of water in it for proper functionality of my skimmer and less bubbles from the return. The problem is, though, that my power outage backflow is 15-20 gallons. Obviously, that is going to overflow my sump with only ~8-9 gallons...

... and this probably could be in the equipment section, sorry.

Long story short, my sump needs more capacity. Rather than dealing with rebuilding the entire thing, I want to overflow from my current sump into a second tank. This will gave me a ton of room for my equipment and a great refugium area. I can only make one take a few inches higher than the...

I've never had my mandarin jump into my overfow, but my royal gramma ended up in there once. What a PITA it was to net him out. And theoretically, the mandarin could probably survive for a while in there if you tank is running well. My overflows are always full of pods.

hehe, thanks.

Oh, and here is a shot that some of you may appreciate. These are a couple of works that we bought in the art [hr] while on our honemoon. Both are limited edition Britto works and both are very large 3D pieces, though it is hard to tell in the pictures. The color in the pictures kind of...

Shannon (my wife) has been calling me all day bugging me to post this on the forums. She entered us in some radio show contest, blah blah blah whatever. I have no idea what it is even for. But, if you're bored, follow the link, choose the radio button under our picture (you can probably figure...