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Your corals are just growing like crazy! What ever your doing keep it up! Awesome!!

I always dosed for Calcium and Alk with E.S.V. B-Ionic 2 part. I love that stuff! Would I still need to dose with Kalk though? Probably not right because that would be overkill.

I have read about Kalk, watched videos on it and I still do not understand it...LOL I know it can raise your PH when dosing it. Thats the whole point of using it correct? Most dose in there water top off but that scares me. What if your top off were to stick, then you would have a Kalk overdose! And if you have a refugium (Large enough one) and run an opposite light schedule on it to your DT so your PH doesn't drop at night, do you really still need to run Kalk?

Get a small Media Reactor, a small pump and run ROWAPhos. Youtube it to see what it can do. Give it 2 to 3 days and it will all be gone. But then you have to find out out why your getting it in the first place. SOunds like your getting high Phosphates from your water as well as maybe overfeeding. With such a small tank (29G) you have less room for error.

Dude!! That skimmer showed up yesterday... Holy Crap I didn't realize it was so Big!! I am not even kidding! Should skim the poo out of the tank (Ahhh thank you) lol

That looks so good! Congrats

Ryan I ordered the Super Reef Octopus 3000 External Cone. The reviews were just too good and its an awesome skimmer from the vids I watched on Youtube. Return Pump I have not gotten yet. Still looking. The Sump I sent the design to Naga and am still waiting to hear back. I dunno? I may give a DIY a try and make my own Acrylic Sump. It actually looks pretty fun to do and not to difficult if you have the right tools.

**Update** 100 lbs. of BRS Pukani Dry Rock delivered yesterday. They are all great looking and should make for an awesome reefscape! Also came was my 10 lb. Marco Rock Cement Bucket as well as my 3/8" & 1/2" Acrylic Rods Ordering my RO/DI Water Unit tomorrow so I should be able to start cooking my rock by the mid-end of next week. Hmmm... what else was ordered? Stay tuned for pics

Just do a water change for right now. I mean thats all you really can do since you dont have a skimmer right?

I had Picasso's and the one use to swim to the top and spit water at me. LOVE CLOWNS!! You other people sound like you were housing a Serrasalmus Niger I had a couple back in the day

IMHO if you use a good reef salt, it will have all you will ever need and do not need to dose.

Just AutoCAD. Took me about 10 mins. I will probably spend more time on it and render it once I get a solid idea down.

What do you guys think about this Sump / Fuge Design? I wanted a huge Fuge Area filled with macro Algae and LR Rubble because I want to just hammer Nitrates in it. The Sump/ Fuge will be two parts connected by a Bulkhead. Because of the Opening to the Stand this is how I can only fit something of this size. The Skimmer and Pump are drawn to exact size representation.

Ok so what it basically seems to me is just adjusting the Gate or Ball Valve to only be open as much as it needs to be so no air is being sucked in and making that horrible gurgle yes? And also having one shorter pipe for your main drain and your second pipe for being for Emergency. But having two corner overflows how would this work? One would just be for emergency? Something doesn't sound right because it would constantly be full of water with no movement inside the overflow on the Emergency side wouldn't it?

I appreciate the info truely but I have absolutely no idea what your talking about with the Herbie Design? I was going to just run both 1" Drains straight into the sump with a Ball Valve on both. Do you think I should connect them and just go 2 into 1? Similar to how I would go on the return?

On my last tank (90G) I felt the same way till I had dead spots in my tank and wished I had gone bigger. That was off a MAG Drive 12.

Wow that sucks.... But I do not feel comfortable re-drilling my tank so the Dual 1"'s will have to do. I will go with a smaller pump. I do not want an internal pump though simply because I do not want the added heat that goes along with it. What do you guys think about this pump? Water Blaster HY 7000 Circulating Water Pump * HY7000W * Watts: 88 watts * 97% efficiency * Max Flow=1,800gph * Max Head= 12 ft * Inlet: 1.25" / Outlet: 1"

Well the Bulkheads drilled in the overflow are for 1" and I have dual so (2) 1" Drains. Should I increase that size with a coupler like a 1" to 1.5 or 2" into the sump? I do not have a Closed Loop setup. I was planning on running (2) Vortech MP60's for powerheads on opposite sides of the tank. I will also probably splice in a Media Reactor off the return pump as well... I dont know? That might be too much flow...lol

I've read the "How to Calculate a Return Pump" page that talks about Head Loss and whatnot and I do not understand it...lol Well kinda. I have a Dual Overflow 200 Gallon Tank and will probably have roughly a 50-60 Gallon Sump/Fuge directly undernieth it in my stand. So.... what I am looking at is the Reeflo Super Dart Gold Pump (4300 GPH). Does that sound about right? If it's too much flow I can always add a Ball Valave and restrict it some what correct? I just do not want to completely suck my sump dry with something to powerful

Do you have any kind of media reactor to help lower Nitrates, Phosphates? I'd try running RowaPhos which is pricey but awesome or some kind of Bio-Pellet to help fight the good fight. Also if your fish dont eat there food within 2-4 minutes your feeding to much.

Nice make sure you cook it. Lots of people report crazy high Phosphates from BRS's Pukani Rock and you dont want that in your DT!!

1. The temperature swings in the tank and trying to stabilize them during the Summer months and not having a Chiller. 2. T5's and all there different configurations to try and get the perfect lighting look!! 3. Cyano!

The last Aquascape is perfect DONT TOUCH IT!!! LoL

I have no updates yet. I am saving and still planning. I really do like the control you have with LED's and most people seem to like them. That being said, there really is nothing like a nice 20K MH/T5 setup... you know what I'm talking about with that real nice crisp blue tint look I dunno... I am still reading and watching Youtube Videos about the AI setups. Ecotechs LEDs are very nice as well but I need (4) fixtures for my tank space and theres no way I am dropping $3K on just lights. The problem I am running into right now is my Sump Design. I have alot of space inside the stand but the doors on either side are only 17" Wide by 23" High. And I want a BIG FUGE so I can contain my Trates in that rather than in my DT. Problem I had with my 90 Gallon was my Fuge compartment was only like 10-12 Gallons and basically did zilch. So the designs I have for the sump is something like a Tetris Block and will have to be plumbed together in seperate peices once in the stand. I dunno..... I might get Jeff (Naga) to build me something amazing like he does.

I always wondered about this. How do you drill thru the rock without it crumbling? Do you need a Super Duty Drill?