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no, I dont think it will cool very much. What would be better, is lay like 500' of a smaller pipe, so it (water) has more time underground.

I would sand the finish off before going again.

If you have access to some steel, and a drill, you could easily make a few attachments that would mount to the wall, and support the light.

Notafishextpert: I didnt mean to say they were bad or anything, I dont really have an opinion of my own, never using one before. I was just stating what I have seen of other debates such as this one of the forums.

Thats probobly a little long. I think most have it on for around 8.

You dont need one. In fact, only few hobbyists have them, and there are mixed opinions. They kill bacteria with ligh levels of UV radiation. Since they dont discriminate, Some good things may be killed to. Some people live by them, others say there crap.

Ive heard really bad things about the coralife T-5 fixtures. Check out the brand catalina. They have good fixtures (individual reflectors) for alot less than the other good T-5 lights.

The most failsafe method is probobly rig all those bottles together, and install a float switch in the last one, when its tripped it shuts down the power to the skimmer.

you need to use weldon for acrylic.

yah, Im interested to see what others have to say.

something like this would work. Its a good DIY project, easy to use, and with a convenient on/off switch. You could hook something like this up to any noise making system. http://www.instructables.com/id/Supe...le-door-alarm/

some of these ( http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lig...b/images/2520/ ) might work as well. Same output as a 150w bulb. With those you might want some actinics to make it look nicer.. It would be easy to rig something like this up in a canopy, but at 100$ a pop, it might be costly.

yup, and possibly some molex adapters depending of the power supply.

no. I have 2 on my turtle tank, and I can barley hear them. I would compare it to... a very quiet computer?

Well, I would say that keeping the water in that room (with the smell) is probably a bad idea. I was camping not long ago, and boiled some water over the fire to "sanitize" it. In a nutshell, the water tasted so badly of smoke, I couldn't even get it down if I made coffee out of it. Plastics and...

you would only be able to keep very low light corals with that fixture.

How many bulbs does it hold, what are the reflectors like, what wattage are the bulbs that it hold, etc.?

Ok, Overflow: And overflow i a method of draining your top tak into the sump (ill cover that later) It either uses gravity, or a siphon. If you "drill" the tank, water has an easy path to fall into the bottum tank, where as a hang on overflow uses a siphon to pull the water down. Overflows work...

If you want pictures, check out "whatsupdoc" he is a great guy when it comes to sumps. Most of the threads he's posted in have pics.

i see a warning on the top of that that says something about submersing it, read what it ways.