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Ryanbest, I am confused, who is going to eat a bobit worm? I gotta be there for this

Looking good, I didn’t like using the gyre pumps in this tank. Only way I could mount them was in the corner sideways so I hope you got a small version of what I had. I don’t think calcium mag and alk are ever out of balance when using calcium reactors, I have never heard of it but I will read the article if I get time. Also dosing solutions are actually made to be used in equal parts so if a calcium reactor is going to do what your talking about then so will dosing a dosing pump if your doing it in equal parts. As far as I know corals all use the big three in the same ratio. The tanks going to look good with a black background. I always hated seeing through it.

I am curious to see what the sponges looked like before and after you cut them out. Bristle worms bore me but sponges on the other hand are really interesting. Did you throw them away?

This is to kill of necrosis? A number of people are using wormwood to kill off aefw as an in tank treatment. It’s working the same way flat worm stop from zeovit works but at a greater dose than they recommend it will kill off aefw as well.

Where did you read that corals use alk and calcium in different ratios? I have not heard this before.

Have you taken the head apart and checked the parts? I would assume a gasket is getting worn and that’s it.

Just use schedule 80 bulkheads valves and pipe. Keeping them halfway up the tank will allow you to drain the tank enough if you need to fix them while not having to worry about your livestock going dry.

Great I figured that would be the easiest solution.

Why don’t you shave off a part of the wood stand so you have space to get it out?

That is really going to restrict the areas where you can put outputs which kinda defeats the point in a closed loop but I guess you could make it work. You will just have all your flow coming from select areas and the piping is going to limit what your rockwork will be.

Why don’t you look into building a box on the side of the tank to house your pumps in and run the pipe along the side of the aquarium. To me a closed loop should be done on the bottom or back and all hidden. If your running pipes down the back and over the sides it’s kinda defeating the point.

I had a small 3’ glass cages tank which was nice. As long as it’s eurobraced on the bottom I wouldn’t worry. The issue years ago was from this not being done from what I remember, lots of leaking corners of tanks.

Hippos have been known to eat zoanthids and other random corals too so I would be very careful.

I had an oceanic with a center glass brace and it got so nasty on the underside and was a huge pain to clean.

My friend has a standard 180 I believe. Pm me if your interested.

Let’s see the two year anniversary pics!

Let’s see an update on this thing.

Let’s get an update!

So how’s the tank looking now?

How’s the tank looking now? Really nice stuff.

So how’s the tank looking now? Love the big corals!

You ok man? Tank still running?

I hope you enjoy the tank as much as we did!

The size of the reactors mostly pertain to how long they can last before the media is ran out. You can push a lot of dkh out of a medium sized reactor but will have to refill it often.

I just got four or2 bars to go along side my two radiums bulbs and two of the fixtures came flickering on and off. They replaced them along with a daylight strip that was way to bright on the ends of it. I hope they hold up over time and don’t start flickering again. They are built like a tank and really nice looking but I am sad that such a simple light would have simple issues like flickering. I saw a number of people had the issue with some of the fixtures as well. Maybe it’s not a big issue but I figured I would post Incase others had the same issue or wanted to know.