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I got the jbj28. the older model and just removed the lid and mounted my own LEDs on top. Works just great! Not really rimless technically because it has the black border all around but without the top and different lighting I think it looks great. its all preference to you, if you can see the tanks in person go and look at them and see if you like the dimensions because sometimes the dimensions listed include the back filtration part so you gotta take into account for that sometimes.

a14 sold c15 sold please add to my invoice please Added

Can I add a30 to my invoice please?

B35 sold

+1 hahaha but looks awesome!!

Hey. I have a JBJ28 lid sitting around that I removed. The 150W halide is out but everything else works. Got the ballast that goes with it too. If it fits I can sell it to you if you still need it.

what are you planning on doing to fix the problem? I actually have the EXACT same problem at the moment with my tank. I got a crab for the bubble algae and tried to siphon them out. Worked for a few days and then came back even worse. My slime got a little better after I added some red slime remover, but did not seem to help much. I bought a sea slug/hare (whichever it is, forgot) for the byropsis algae. Still seems to be a little too slow...I do not know what to do. Your plans? Maybe I can see what to do with mine

So I came home to first take the advice of changing my filter but that didn't seem to work. From there I then decided to remove the pumps again and see what could be the problem, luckily from there, I was able to find a problem. When I was pulling out the pumps, I noticed the part that pulled the water in was facing upwards which could obviously lead to whirlpools as Jon Lazar mentioned. I decided to simply turn the pump in a different direction after placing the tubing on and tried that simple solution first, and IT WORKED! I had cleaned the pumps out over the weekend and when I put them back in I must have put them back in different direction leading to the problem. Interesting that I noticed the problem only this morning when it has been a few days. Perhaps it might have happened due to a little bit of water loss over the few days after putting the pumps back in. Thanks for all the help and concern guys! Really appreciate it.

Hey. Sorry. Just the way I worded it, but I most definitely checked the water levels on my tank when everything was on. Back pumps, inside tank circulation fans (2), and my skimmer were all on at the time. I might go home to check out my filters. Maybe that is where the problem is even though it did seem to be fine for the levels in the back when I checked.

So I woke up this morning to what could have been a huge disaster. I have a nuvo40 and I woke up this morning to see that my pumps from the back section blowing water into my tank was malfunctioning. It was blowing air bubbles out as if it were running on low water. I immediately turned off my pumps (who knows how long it was like that while I slept) and checked to see if everything was alive first, luckily everything was. I then proceeded to check the water levels and it was normal. I took out the pump that appeared to be broken, but then I noticed it was both pumps that seemed to have the problem. After taking out the pumps, I ran them in a bucket with just water by themselves and I didn't notice any problems coming out from them (i.e. the crazy bubbles when a pump doesn't have enough water to pull in) After that step, I checked the tubing going up and into the tank, and it was all intact with no holes or rips. What do i do?!?! I had to leave for work so I left the tank without the pumps in the back off because I didn't want it running like that all day while I was gone. I threw in an extra circulation fan for inside the tank so my fish are still get some circulation. HELP ME! What is the problem with my pumps? Can anyone help me?

And MrSexyShrimp, I know right? Tell me about it. Everything I want is difficult to maintain. Even the corals. I am pretty sure everyone is like this.

Another random update, but after looking at my tank last night and this morning before going to work I failed to see any of the bright red copepods from last night. I am hoping they were able to find their way into the rocks to hide for the time-being. However my mandarin does seem to be "hunting" differently then noticed before the addition of pods. I do not know how long this bottle will last now after reading some comments that the pods might not even have enough time to reproduce before the mandarin "decimates" the population according to lutz123. Might just dip some rocks from my 14G every few days then........possible solution maybe? Leave the 14G alone to allow the pods to continue to thrive and just transfer rocks over once in a while or a shower pouf? Can the pods thrive in "lifeless" tank (i.e. no fish or corals), or should I maybe just throw in a few pellets of food once in a while? I assume they need to eat something too? Haha

The size of my established mandarin tank is a 40G. I am going to invest in a shower pouf for now to transfer over some pods from the 14G. I am aware that I should leave it in at least a full day before moving out and over. When I was at Petland the other day, Ben also told me that I could simply try to pick up some of the rocks from the 14G and move them over to sit in my larger tank for a few hours and just take out before I go to sleep to avoid transfer of other bacteria. I really do not want to have to move the mandarin over to the 14G because it just looks so ddarn beautiful with the lights in my 40G and everything else. My 14G is just a basic single led strip with nothing in it. Can't bare to watch him in such a lesser tank when I love staring at my 40G whenever I am home. I have already noticed my fire red shrimp in my 40G even cleaning the mandarin once in a while so he must be comfortable already and do not want to disturb in it when he is already in a delicate situation at the moment in my opinion. I might also do this idea if I see plenty of pods at the time in my 14G.

the current tank with the mandarin has been up and running for a while. long story short, i got this tank from a friend who had it up and running for about 2 years and pretty much forgot about it and failed to maintain for the fish to continue to thrive. I took it off of him for very cheap. there has been an ocellaris in it that has appeared to live after apparently living after not being fed for 2 weeks with nothing else remaining in the tank (must be a trooper). as to moving it to the 14g, i am afraid it might not live in it because of the fact that I have not been properly maintaining that tank either since there is currently nothing in it as I am in a dilemma to sell it or make it into a QT tank. However, with this mandarin I was thinking of making this 14g perhaps into breeding my own live fish (brine shrimp) for the sake of the mandarin. as for the 14g, it has been up and running for a year now, and as stated I can see that plenty of copepods are thriving around with no fish/predators around since I have removed everything from this tank. the question is now how to transfer the copepods over without transferring the aiptasia as well. I was actually thinking of this idea since I was looking for some chaeto anyways to throw in my sump area and found out through research that copepods/amphipods thrive on these if they are present in a reefer's tank. I am in the fair lakes area (between fairfax and chantilly, va) i was aware of this warning from a fellow reefer friend and from personal research about adding mandarins to a tank. However, I wanted to take a risk anyways in hope it would work because I absolutely love the Green/Red Mandarin fish. For now, I went to the Petland in Fairfax and talked with Ben. I purchased some Reef Nutrition Tigger Pods for the timebeing. My fish seemed to go crazy over them and ate what seemed to be a good amount of them even though I had fed them just prior, but I am sure with the amount in the bottle plenty were able to find their way down to some rock/sand. Tonight I am going to look in my tank to see if I can see them on my glass since these are a bright red color unlike the typical white ones I am accustomed to seeing in my 14G. I can see my mandarin definitely "hunting" for food differently since adding the bottle and he appears to be much more active and happier in my opinion from what I have observed his prior habits to be. Still looking for a more permanent option rather than having to go to the store and buy bottles of these every once in a while. looking at this forum it seems that "dave w" is the guy that seems to know the best about this. haha. I have looked into the DIY your condo pods, but I was wondering how I could get this set up in my 14G biocube. I feel like a biocube could perhaps be different compared to a standard 14G (or similar size) tank with an external filter or an attached refugium tank. input?

Also, will aipaptasia be able to transfer over on the sponge if I have some present in my 14G?