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  1. kube

    Sump Re-Do

    I'm thinking about redoing my sump below my 125 gallon tank......just looking for input if this is a solid idea or where I should modify it I was thinking the water would overflow from tank to a 10 gallon drilled tank that would sit higher than a 20 long that would use gravity to drain into the...
  2. kube

    Help...Sick Blue Hippo...is it to late? HLLE

    OK...a few weeks ago i posted some pics but it was hard to see what i was looking at, its gotten alot worse in the last few weeks...you can pretty much say that for 20 days the hippo wouldnt eat and just sat behind a rock... well in the last two days I found somthing that he would eat and he has...
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    Blue Tang Health Possible HLLE

    Hello, Looking for some help here from Beth or anyone with any thoughts, got this large blue tang from swf.com and was wondering if it has the beggining stages of HLLE...Lots of pics, in one of the pics i circled what is concerning me, also on his fins look a little rough. i can get clearer pics...
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    RO/DI Filter question

    Well, I'm loosing my mind but anyways.......i noticed today that RO membrane is running at about 88% rejection rate. So new one on order but my question lies with the 3 pre filters before it hits RO membrane....I replaced all three prefilters about a two months ago (quality filters for BRS) and...
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    The Days I want to Give up......

    been a hard few weeks with the holidays and undertaking a boxer puppy along with the little one (11m old baby) had a few fish tank issues that came all at once and been a hair from selling it all..... 3 floods.......the first one was the ninja attack that moved my return from my ato tank to the...
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    My First Ninja Attack...Need Advice

    Well the ninjas struck.....someone moved my water line from my 20 gallon ro tank for ATO. so when the water level fell below the float switch it turned on the pump and ran about 15gallon of water on the carpet...dont know if it was the 3 month old boxer pup who two days ago discovered that she...
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    Dead Cyano

    What is Cyano look like after its dead? Reason I've been using the turkey baster to suck it out and left some on the stand to dry out to see what it would look like. It shriveled and dried out and still was blackish red. So after months of water changes and different GFO in multiple reactors and...
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    Eshopps Skimmer

    First off any one else out there using the eshopps skimmer? For a cheap skimmer they blow away the coralife supper skimmer and the seaclone. Both I have owned and used for a year each. so no assumptions there I posted this on another board so I'm just going to cut and paste Ok just got my new...
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    I Give Up....

    ....On DI Resin Ok so a few weeks ago I had a thread on the 1000+ TDS water I'm cursed with here. So i put in a fresh set of DI Resin cartridges into my RO/DI system and fill a 34 gallon bucket and the DI resin has already changed colors on me...what the hell I was going to just buy a bunch and...
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    Help Very High TDS!!

    Hi Guys I need help getting 1050 TDS water down to zero. After the RO stage I have TDS around 17-19 It seems to be killing the DI Resin rather quickly. I made maybe 100 gallon and its exhausted already. Due to an accident with an RO Tank I accidently flushed maybe half a gallon of 150 TDS water...
  11. kube

    shrimp Goby - Pink & Blue

    Do they sift the sand. Cant seem to find any reliable info, or what I do find is conflicting stories...Thanks
  12. kube

    Cube

    I want to make a 12 x 12 x 12 cube and attach it to my 20 long sump that i currently have. How hard would this be to make? I was thinking I could try to make it out of thick plexi glass. Is the 12 x 12 foot print large enough to house most nice skimmers out on the market for 125 gallon tank? I...
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    bubbles in Reactor

    I recently set up a TLF reactor and feed the reactor from a maxi jet, it sets in the intake section of my sump. With two overflows returns dumping into that section along with a skimmer the water is solid with micro bubbles and i notice the reactor is getting air bubbles in. Is that a problem...
  14. kube

    Clean Up Crew? or Not?

    Whats everyones thoughts? Trying to figure out if its worth the money to by a cuc. I dont have one right now and dont really have any issues. But would like it cleaner...Been slacking on the water changes...What does everyone think is better a good cuc or does good husbandry work just as well...
  15. kube

    Reactor

    Can I run two types if media in a reactor like active carbon and phosban? just pack some filter floss between the two and fill half full of each? Or is my logic flawed here?
  16. kube

    Porcupine Puffer

    Hi guys I come for advice..... I have a porcupine puffer in my 125 gallon fish only tank..Tanks paramaters are all perfect, well established with a 20 gallon sump and a total of 100+ pounds of live rock. Its day 3 still havn't gotten him to eat. i know its not a large concern at this time but I...
  17. kube

    Mag 9.5 & 2 Eshoppe 800 GPH Overlows

    Ok heres what baffles me, I have a 55 gallon tank with a 800gph over flow and a 9.5 mag return pump on the return i have a tee that i can open to have less flow to the dt and recirculates it to the first compartment of the sump. That said i have to have that valve almost all the way open to keep...
  18. kube

    Copepods in the Sump to the DT

    Here is my question I know people say that if you have a sump full of pods that some will get sucked into the DT. By giving them a safe place to multiple and no predators will eat them that you will be able to substain a decent population..and so on So I have 55 DT and a 20 gallon sump full of...
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    Dsb

    I'm in the planning stage of my 125 gallon tank, for some stupid reason i was stuck on how was i going to make a 55 gallon tank work below the tank, tank is two tall and not a good choice, then i stumbled along the first time sumpfuge thread and it dawned on me why not use two tank and plumb...
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    Marine Ick

    I have a question about Marine Ick. When you treat your fish with hypo you lower the salinty to 1.009 for 6-8 weeks to break the life cycle of the parasite, the Trophont Stage the parasites burst at this salinity, now becuse the parasite could be in various other stages that why we wait the 8...
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