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he def. had some high end equipment didn't he. he only had water in this setup for 3 weeks so its basically new. im pumped. cant wait to build this one. do you think my sro 3000 skimmer will work with this set up? now were talking about around 160 gallons total.

by the way. thats 8 hours one way. any takers with a truck? lol

well, i just put a deposit on this one. 8 hour drive in a few weeks coming up. cadlights 36x36x24 starphire rimless. custom mrc sump. not using the hood thing whatever it is. cant wait, pretty excited. comes with 100 lbs marco rock, 30 pounds of realreefrock. all plumbing. heres a few picks.

That's what I was thinking. For some reason I've always battled very high nitrates, and I mean extremely high so I'm gonna try to fight from the very beginning this time.

When setting up a new tank from scratch with dry rock is it ok to use a bio pellet reactor from the start?

Wow!!!

Do you think I should just use the swc skimmer instead?

If I could sell the reef savvy for what I got in it before the actual setup I will and go ahead and get the bigger rimless. But after having this reef savvy tank its pretty hard to look at different brands and a reef savvy that size is a little out of my league right now.

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I forgot about that. I also have a new 9 watt uv sitting in the garage. I was gonna use a long time ago but everyone on reef central said don't use. I rarely get on rc anymore entirely to much bashing and criticizing for me.

Any advice on my setup thus far.

I have read a few times about people using skimmers a lot bigger then they need instead of filter socks. Does that make any sense or is it totally wrong?

Do you have a link to the 11.4 gallon. I can't find it.

Same for me on the filter socks. I wash them twice a week on my 150 and to be honest I hate it.

Only thing is I really don't want wires over the edge of the tank since its rimless. I like tunze just trying to keep wires out.

Well I already have it and it needs to be used or I'm gonna try to do some trading and get two mp40.

I have a question for the more experienced reefers. I'm trying to not have to use filter socks. Here are my plans thus far. 60 cube, 2 radions, sump is huge 4ft by 18" three chamber, mag 12 or 9.5 undecided, red skimmer in pics, gfo, carbon, and bio pellet reactor if needed. And dosers for 2 part. And a controller. So the questions are do you think I can get away without filter socks and do you see anything missing from my plans that I should have?

No. I'm gonna sell it. I know it would have worked great but I got such a good deal on the red one I couldn't pass it up. Got it for $340.00 I know its overkill but I will never have to upgrade or but another skimmer, I will pass it down for generations!! Lol

I have a brand new swc in the for sale forum

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my newest additions!!! i think my skimmer has more water volume than my tank. mp 60 will be very ammusing at best. so help me with a stocklist that likes extreme water flow!!

Honestly haven't figured it out yet. Would like to try some lps and sps if I feel I understand it well enough. Up to this point I've only kept softies. Only thing I still wanna get is a controller and dosing pumps for 2 part then I think I'm set on equipment.

Also picked up tir lenses for the radions. Anyone with experience care to share there programming on the radions would be greatly appreciated. I know absolutely nothing about programming these lights.

Well, stand is almost complete. Picked up a mp60 yesterday. Yeah you read it right. I know extreme overkill but for the price I couldn't pass it up. Hopefully I can dial it back enough so it doesn't cause a tornado in my tank. Picking up a different skimmer this weekend. Super reef octopus xp3000e. Again extremely oversized. Bit I assure you when its time to upgrade I will be 100% ready.

Current build will be 100 total gallons but I'm sure that will grow. The skimmer is a super reef octopus 3000e.