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Perhaps! Either way I'm going to wait, as I still need to clean this one up. I did have my eye on a sumped 30 gallon cube as well, which I would prefer overall but the seller hasn't responded. If he does I may buy that and sell this.

I ended up picking up a (dirty) Innovative Marine 20 gallon for $50 that doesn't have a pump, but I have one that will fit just fine! Need to either find a stand or build on, and go set it up at the new house ASAP. I suppose I should start a new thread?

Yeah I think it is very manageable overall honestly, but I am having to major issues: 1. I can’t get the surface skimming right, and once I do it’s just too noisy. I think it’s too much flow to push through pipes with the surface skimming. 2. The tank is too small for the lily pipes to push as much flow as I need appropriately. I need to split the outflow to spread the flow out, but that would hurt the aesthetic of my setup. I think it wouldn’t be hard for me to figure out, but with the move and everything I feel like I need a simpler setup. I may just see if anyone has another IM 25 Lagoon to move into for now. I appreciate that, I may take you up on it! I am debating just swapping into a different tank and turning this one into a planted tank for my office in the attic.

The luxdium is doing great, I can definitely tell the colors are getting better overall with the coral. My tank as a whole is pretty neglected at the moment, as I have had a LOT going on with everything, and a bunch of hiccups with getting the house (lender related). Fortunately I just closed on the house yesterday and moved 80% of my stuff up, but I am unsure on what to do with the tank. I think I bit off more than I could chew with the super clean setup using lily pipes, it just isn't working how I want it to. I am debating going with another tank setup either temporarily or permanently. I may search for a IM 25 lagoon again instead, I loved that tank....

Sounds good, I’ll be around most nights! lol it is, but there are two problems; I don’t have AC in my house, and I’m also moving to Florida soon. Temps are just too inconsistent in a 9 gallon anyway.

I don't know if you meant literally or figuratively, but I agree with both lol. It is proving easier to work with and is MUCH quieter. And yeah, I have an idea on how to plumb it cleanly, but need to get it in my hands first. Waboss won't be able to give it to me until the end of this week. I'll also have a doser soon, if I can convince someone to come meet up with me to grab a beer or two

Back to a closed loop: I know I talked about dropping the sump, and after weighing back and forth on things a bit, I decided it was for the best. I wasn't able to get things where I wanted them with flow and cleaning the overflow, but I also had a hard time with the small glass lily pipes (I broke one). I decided to pick up some 17mm Aquario Neo Flows and went back to a closed loop, this time on the wavemaker pump instead of the canister filter. I have to say I am much happier with this setup, and things are easier to clean overall (although I didn't do the best job today for this FTS. I have a Ice Probe chiller I'll be picking up next week that I need to plumb into this setup, which I do have a plan for. Once I have that figured out, I'll grab a decent shot of inside the cabinet. A few photos from today, I snapped about 50 of the hi-fin goby since he was out for quite a while, but couldn't really get the shrimp in the same shot!

Glad you decided to set up the doser finally, hope it helps! Does this mean you aren't going to use that bluetooth one?

Hah, yeah I did bring the LEDs down a bit, I know LED PAR and T5 PAR really just tend to impact corals quite a bit differently. I'll bring the LEDs back up after things have acclimated a bit, and need to re-check things once I buy new bulbs.

Rigged up a little T5 hybrid setup this weekend, going for a bit of an industrial look since it will fit the eventual surrounding aesthetic. I will probably change up the fixture a bit more to make it cleaner, but it works great and I am super stoked to have a hybrid fixture again! Ignore the dirty pipes and glue I forgot I left out.

Thanks brother! I got it from Reef Cleaners, which I’ve always had great experiences with. It shipped perfectly and seems to be doing well in my tank so far.

Grabbed a few shots tonight as I figured I should start trying to document growth and color and whatnot. I am still getting a feel for things with this camera and lens, but I am SO impressed when I do get it right: Forest Fire Digi, looking a bit more fire than forest Money Cowrie My hi-fin goby decided to make a BRIEF appearance for the first time ever tonight, so I wasn't able to get a solid shot of him GSP Mummy Eye Chalice isn't looking too hot still, but is starting to look better Nano conch

In the two minutes I was able to spend with the lens testing it out (I am technically working right now ), I am VERY happy with this purchase so far. I'll have to spend a bit more time with it after work, as I am honestly still learning the new camera as well. First test photo of my new favorite invert, the Fuzzy Chiton:

Four pickups today (only two pictured): Rastas Crown Royals Red Hornets Mohawks I had to re-glue my Radioactive Dragon Eyes onto a plug as the RFA decided to re-home itself right on top of them. I'll find a new spot for them once I glue these down. Also had my PAR readings done, and found that my light diffuser was REALLY too effective, and cutting the PAR down by about half. That kind of explains why I was having a few things brown out on me. I removed it for now and am going to acclimate everything to the light a bit over the next week or so, but should be able to increase to 100% power on the new puck. I'll post up my readings later.

I am going back to my old workflow of using Lightroom Classic as I like their Color Calibration settings a lot more than Lightroom CC. I do push into Lightroom CC once I'm done with color, as I like some of the other settings in the newer version. I previously was just using Lightroom Mobile, as the quality coming from the T7i just wasn't enough that I cared to do anything more, and just opted to get the mood more where I wanted it than the quality and color.