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  1. hillk

    plumbing a fuge and u/v unit

    i have been running a fuge/ chaeto on a 90 softie tank with 6 fish etc, tunze skimmer with a biohome [cintered glass] chamber for years with no problems UV will kill the pods going back to the tank IMO
  2. hillk

    Skimmer suggestions

    i have a tunze 9015 on my 90 and it is awesome and compact
  3. hillk

    sump buddy skimmer

    make sure you keep us updated I have not built my sump yet due to weighing the options of skimmers and this one is still on the board
  4. hillk

    sump buddy skimmer

    I have been looking at them, I am building a 30 gal sump right now for my 90 and considering this skimmer or a tunze 9010, they say the tunze is good but I just cant see it keeping up with this skimmer when you run a 900 gph pump on it compared to the small pump on the tunze. I am making the...
  5. hillk

    sump buddy skimmer

    anyone using one of these by etss?
  6. hillk

    filter socks

    I one in the tank with and extra one so I just rotate them and throw the sock in the washer with hot water and cap full of bleach works real well, I have to change mine about every 4 days. I also have a thin one, dont know how many microns it is but it is like one of those bags you use to put...
  7. hillk

    tank setup

    too complicated or what?
  8. hillk

    tank setup

    how is this set up? 150 gallon tank with two 1600gph CPR overflowes into a sump/refugium 75 gallons, return pump is a sequence barricuda 4500 gph and has 3780 with 4 ft of head pressure, returned through two waveyseas wavemakers that way keep powerheads etc out of the tank and only need to run...
  9. hillk

    refugium question

    I have a berlin style sump the incoming water goes through a sock and then is skimmed in that same part of the sump, then it flows over to the clean side of the sump through the sponge divider and back to the display tank. I built a 5.5 gal fuge that I have next to the clean side of the sump and...
  10. hillk

    light fan

    Okay thanks
  11. hillk

    light fan

    I have a Nova Extreme T5 HO and the fan runs 24/7 even when the light is off and cool. It has it's own plug in as well. Is that normal? Should not the fan cycle off when it is cool?
  12. hillk

    calcium question

    I have a new 90 with live rock and sand and want to intro calcium for the coraline algae. Does anyone know how long the 2 pound blocks of Sea Lab calcium typically last
  13. hillk

    Where can I find a acrylic tank cover?

    glasscages.com in TN makes whatever you want
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