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One is round in nature with a concave underside. It is green. At first I thought it was a plate coral, but I thought they had flat bottoms, at least the ones I have do. The second is a pink base with green centers. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. I placed the large one on the tank bottom...

I need to send my lighting system for repair. The only back up light I have is a coralife 130 watt 50/50 light that is below my tank in the sump. I would move that light to the top with fresh bulbs, but will all the corals make it with just that and natural light? Anyone in the baltimore area...

All that stuff is located in a 3-4 foot high crawlspace. I am 6'6"....you can do the math...haha. I am trying to avoid crawling into the crawlspace every week to turn ball valves and I was definitely trying to avoid the extra clutter under the tank and 1" tubing through the walls. Thats all...

The SCWD doesn't allow me to control the switching. If you saw the OP this is to switch from a drain line to a supply line when draining and filling the tank. I want to open the drain and close the supply and drain the tank, then close the drain and open supply and fill the tank. The T is in...

Where are you getting life cycle information? From personal experience? Also I found this one....give the cost comparison, I would question reliability....but maybe not, we are just trained to think that way as consumers... http://www.dultmeier.com/products/0.689.1019.2208.3862/2365

Anyone ever use large electric solenoids? I have ordered three 1" electric ball valves...mighty expensive at 250 each. I am trying to automate more of my system. I have newly plumbed my tank drain and tank fill into one line. The line leaves the CL system down into the crawlspace where it Ts...

My blue hippo tang was stuck against my intake strainer which is a 2" inlet to a reeflo pump. Now I know he is a strong swimmer, so I almost think he was just "hanging" out there. I have had him in this tank for 5 years and I can only imagine it has done this many times before, but I was...

Should the last baffle height be above the water line or does it not make a difference? So the water goes over the first, under the second and back over the third...if the third is under water does it defeat the purpose? I only ask because I feel like the act of water falling down from the...

I have always had a DSB and live rock in my fuge. Recently I thought I would add a more natural effect of either mangroves or chaeto and I want to give them room to grow and tumble. Should I remove the LR? Should I remove the DSB? Should I keep one or the other or both? I have a 180 gallon...

Always like to bring closure to my posts. So I decided to get another Reeflo Dart pump. I have a reeflo pump on my CL system. Reeflo said to put the pump outside the sump and to plumb up and over but to include a swing check valve on the water side, under the water level. When the power cuts...

@Flower - The floor has already been reinforced to prevent any more settling. It is a waterfront home on a crawlspace and it was never waterproofed...so we dug the trench added drains and sump pumps and then pour 19 concrete footers and ran two steel I beams the length of the house with 19 jack...

I am not sure the question you are asking in your first line...The stand is on the first floor, below the first floor is the crawlspace. So I could put a jacking column directly under the subfloor where the tank is sitting. So that is an option. It might be important to note that the tank...

Well after the move, it has become clear that the new house is not as level as the old house... In fact from front left corner to back right corner there is a height difference of about 1". Now I have read plenty of posts on here about unlevel tanks and how everyone says this creates a ton of...

I am afraid to drill the sump because it is a tempered glass tank, so I am sure it will shatter. The middle section is not large enough to put a strainer put into, if that is what you meant. If I can't go up and over then I will just have to keep buying the submersible pumps...the hy-drive was...

Are my physics right here? Or Will there be more water in the PVC pipe up and around the tank? Is that enough water to prime?

You can view photos of the end result of the hybride hy-drive from danner manufacturing. This is the 2850 pump. https://picasaweb.google.com/philipdepalo/HydrivePump?authkey=Gv1sRgCK2iuNGQnfOV8QE# As far as the reeflo goes, my current setup has the top tank dumping into two sides of the sump /...

Yes I am familiar with reeflo as that is what is on my closed loop system. Do you know if they can pull a prime? I guess I can ask the manufacturer.

Thanks. The rock was out of the water from the time it took me to move it from the tank into the tub on the floor. The rocks remained wet and each tub was temperature controlled with aeration. I would say the stand was stirred up very very little as the moving process was very slow with how...

As far as non submersibles go, which ones can draw water up through the suction port to create their own prime? Basically the pump would sit above the water level and if power went out, it would need to create its own prime as gravity would drain it....any suggestions there?

I moved my tank between two houses. I first moved all the rock, live stock and most of the water. Then about 6 of us moved the tank itself. We actually left the sandbed so it was never disturbed. Of course that probably added an additional 200 lbs. We weighed the tank at one point on a big...