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A half bucket of salt and strong will go a long way my friend lol.

Snowed in due to the snowstorm of the freaking century. Got my sidewalks shoveled off but there is a thick layer of ice underneath. I don't have any ice salt, would aquarium salt work? lol

I just bought a biocube 29 for $120 with a stand - the only problem is that there are a few scratches on the inside of the tank. I don't think they will be real noticeable with water, but I'm super particular about my stuff. Does anybody have any first hand experience with good acrylic scratch...

So I siliconed the corners of my acrylic tank after I repaired it with weldon (bad advice from the glass shop on the silicone decision). Anyways, the silicone now has some green algae on it - kind of yellow almost and I have never seen this. It is 100% silicone. Any thoughts?

I just set the tank up last week and have been checking very carefully for leaks and whatnot. Today, I actually looked inside the tank in detail and realized that there are a good amount of microbubbles coming from the return. There are no microbubbles in my wet/dry return chamber though, so I...

I just fixed up a cracked acrylic tank - everything seems good, but I'd sleep better at night knowing if something went wrong. Does anybody know of a water level alarm? I've seen plenty that detect when you fill a tank up too much to prevent overflow, but does anybody know of anything fairly...

I just set up my 75g acrylic tonight. Long story short, I have a square patch of acrylic attached to the inside of the glass, and the outside of the glass around the bulkhead due to a crack that I caused when drilling the hole for the overflow. I only have one seal and when I initially set the...

Any thoughts on the thickness of the acrylic to patch w/? I was thinking 1/4" - overkill maybe?

It's a 75g 5 foot tank.

Would there be any benefit on putting a patch on both sides?

Will that affect my OF at all?

Ok, here's a pic. Looks worse on the pic than in person, but gives you an idea of what I'm dealing with. I've read up a little bit - the majority say that weldon will work fine if done correctly by opening up the crack and applying the weldon inside the crack, rather than on the surface. I also...

So after a month of planning and prep for drilling my acrylic tank, I just cracked it. I figured out where I wanted to drill the hole for my bulkhead and decided to drill a small hole through the middle first to act as a guide for the hole saw. I guess I was a little too pumped up about it and...

I understand the 1.5" thing now, I just don't understand the durso pipe. I don't know if I'll have enough room inside my box to do that - could I use a T connector out the back with one side going down to my wet/dry and the other going to a durso. Or, could I just extend my drain pipe up and...

Right now I'm just using a wet/dry so it's pretty big. I haven't built my sump yet - do you have any suggestions. It's just a 20 long that I'll be using along with the wet/dry.

The tank is a 75 gallon acrylic- it's the 5 foot version. The overflow box is 12.25" long, 4.5" tall and 3.5" wide. I'm running a 1.5" bulkhead with 1" plumbing. Also, planning on running roughly 750 gph

I just built an in-tank overflow box for my tank and would like to drill the tank within the next few days, so now I'm just wondering about placement. How far below the water level should I place the overflow? Keep in mind it is grandpa style - no teeth.

Anybody want to take any bets on how long it will take before this thread is closed. Maybe before I finish this message??

So I'm going to try my hand at corals. I found a pack that I'd be willing to pay for if its a good deal. The cost is $100 shipped for the following Frags of each: -Fire and ice -Seafoam saturns -Black cherries -Tidalzone aquas -Pink kraze -Rockstar supernovas -Emerald eyes -Armor of God There...

I thought about doing something like that, but instead of the inside I was going to put it on the outside. For example, on the outside I would use a T-connector with one side going down to my sump and the other going up to a straight pipe with a hole drilled in the top. I think this will work in...