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my neighbors joke that my house looks like a tattoo parlor at night b/c of the blue light. But it doesn't effect anything with tv watching.

Their pumps are awesome and in my experience they under rate them too. Just let me know

I have a reeflo snapper ew in box from macna. It will have the full warranty bc Im sure they have that serial number that they sent to us. Shoot me a msg if you are interested.

Also if you have an acrylic tank there is a chance that the urchin can eat into the acrylic.

I was looking at the real reef stuff the other day. I saw some broken pieces and it's very solid. It doesn't seem nearly as good as marco/brs/ or any other type of real rock.

Call John at brk. They have lots of designer clowns there

I have a smart ato sitting in a box in my garage if anyone is interested. Like Sam said. Sometimes they get glitch so I switched it out for an avast

Why not get one from avast? Great unit and a local company

In with Hilary and huge thanks, I actually got 3 of them!

Hey I'm looking for someone to build a furniture grade stand for a 120g tank. Anyone have any good recommendations. Thanks

Check with brk.

Not any real good options. Keep feeding the fish and hope for the best.

Welcome aboard!

I'm going to need to many elbows in this setup. It's only 1 more elbow than I use on the 220 with the sump directly underneath the tank. But I will make sure to use them sparingly. So I heard back from reeflo today and they recommend the swordtail pump. At 10' of head its almost 1200 gph so I think that will be more than sufficient for what I'm looking at. And the pump is pretty energy efficient using an average of 155 watts

Thanks for the infor Graham. So maybe I can put some that foam pipe insulation onto the pvc to reduce the loss of heat since his basement is on the chilly side.

Good idea Tom. I have dealt with them before on an old pump I have used and they were fantastic then. I will give the a call tomorrow.

Ok so I measured it out and I am looking at an 11' head night using a 4' stand on the sump and guesstimating the plumbing going to the top of the tank at 5' So do you think the super dart will work. Reeflo says at 12' there is 1150 gph. So it should be more than enough correct?

I'm going to go over tonight and get a good idea of the height we are looking at. For a sump we have an extra 75g tank sitting around that I'm going to utilize for a sump. It's a bit big, but it's free and extra water volume never hurts

Yeah We are going to build a table for the sump and pump to sit on.

Cool thanks Brian. So the yellowtail would be better than since its smaller than the marlin. I might hit you up on coming and taking a peek, just need to see when I might have some time on a weekend.

Its only one floor. I have not measure anything yet. But from the basement floor to the celing is about 9' then a couple more feet to get through to the main floor, then all the way up to the top of the tank would be about another 5'?? So I was rounding up at the highest but I would say w/o measuring we would be looking at most 20', but probably more than likely 15-16'. Does that not sound right? I know I need to firm up measurements on things but 20' while a bit much is on the conservative side when figuring the head distance.

what do you mean by larger pipe. How big would you run the pipe. I just looked and for example the yellowtail has a 2" inlet/outlet! I assume you are not telling me to run bigger, just don't make the pipes smaller than that. I have always plumbed keeping the pipe as big as possible for as long as possible. Is that what you are saying?

Hey guys. So Im working with my brother on building a new setup for him. He is putting together a 120g tank that is going to have the sump in the basement. So I am looking at pumps to figure out what is best for him. He will have about 20' of head pressure on the tank. I was looking at reeflo and looks like their yellowtail will work. But what about DC pumps, I don't know much about them so what pump would I be looking at for a DC pump with that type of head pressure. Thanks

My anemone split recently and the clone moved to the other side of the tank. Now the 2 clowns take turns on who stays in which anemone. But usually at night they wind up sleeping together, they just dont like looking at each other when the lights are on. lol

Why couldn't this be next weekend