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It’s about 8yo, but we sold it last night :/

150 Gallon Tall Glass Aquarium for Sale. Been running it as a reef tank for 4 years in 2 different states but our new house can't support the weight so we have to downsize systems. Had two previous buyers back out last second. Tank Stand Canopy Sump Tank is in Washington DC and I'm happy to help load it all into your car/truck.

Oh, and as for test kits. Salifert for Nitrate and Hanna Checker for PO4. Both sensitive to low numbers.

Thanks all!! Good advice all around. A couple of notes that may help. Dropped lights back to 40% for the time being. No adverse effects so far Pumps are in anti-sync at 50% I'm a bit of a nut about water changed. I do 5% twice per week. Takes all of 10 mins. Fairly certain that's not the cause. The zero nutrients seems to be a consensus over on R2R as well. Started dosing some KNO3 to bring up the Nitrates, but any suggestions on adding P04? I've been over feeding the one fish and the critters in the tank, but we'll see. I do seem to have stopped the polyp loss, but haven't gotten much color back (the blue dot is back in the center of my Duncan's though and that's encouraging). If nutrients being too low is an issue, should I remove the ROX carbon temporarily? Or is that mainly dissolved organics and not PO4/NO3? Thanks again for all the advice!

I want to lower the lights, but I'm a little nervous. The depth of the tank is much greater than most others. I'm worried they won't get enough. I'll drop back to 40% overall, but will keep my fingers crossed for the guys towards the bottom.

I'm ready to tear my hair out (what little remains). Tank is relatively new (@6 months old). Parameters are perfect. 1375 mg, 470 ca (a little high), alk 9, ph 8.1, PO4 = 0, NO3 = 0. 150 gallon tall tank. 2 30w gen 4 pros (60% power). 2 mp40s @50% power. Tank is 30" tall & 4' Wide. Have a beautiful frogspawn bought locally along with an acropora frag and a pavona frag that were doing ridiculously well. Deep Purple Acropora growing and branching (small, but good for a month in a relatively new tank). Frogspawn fully extended and swaying in the current. pavona not really growing noticeably, but fully extended and great gold coloration. Now the trouble starts. The acropora was one of several items purchased in a cherry corals live sale. Some blastos are doing well (bright red, puffy, and even spawning little ones. A paly and a zoa doing ok as well once I realized they needed a different spot in the tank. Lost a few other zoas, though, and the other acropora was basically white (though polyps still extending). Favia doing well as well (coloration, never saw sweepers except for the first day in the tank). Thought we'd sorted out the problem when we moved the zoas and they started coming back well. Then went on a binge (those live sales will get you every time!). Got a bucket load of beauties from the WWC sale two weeks ago. Having learned my lesson, I left them all on their frag plugs so I could move them around the tank more easily. Two acropora died within 48 hours (thank god for the 10 day guarantee .... they weren't doing well to begin with). The others were beautiful when they arrived, but have slowly, over the last two weeks, gone incredibly dull. They look like the live rock around them in color. The chalices are fine but fading. One of the original blastos is now retracting a bit but that may be due to increased flow (See below). Ricordeas are doing amazingly well (shocker). Favia has started to fade after being moved lower in the tank. But the acropora all look either bleached or brown. Just dull. Polyps are somewhat extended on most, but not the way they should be. Same with chalices. I've tried what I can think of. Too much light? Move them lower and let them acclimate. Too little light? Move the favia back up to get color back. Too little flow? Turn up the mp40s to 70%. Now that looks like it's tossing the frogspawn around a little hard and the chalice/blasto doesn't seem to be as happy. Millipora, once moved into more current, is now extending again. I can't figure out whether this is light, or flow, or even nutrients (too low?). I've taken out half the cheato in the fuge and I haven't run GFO in over 3 months. I don't have a heavy fish load, but I'm considering upping my feeding to get the NO3 and PO4 up a little (from 0 for both now). Two small side notes. Alk was a little low last week (closer to 7.5-8.0) which I adjusted last night during the water change. The protein skimmer was off for about a week because we used two part epoxy that sent it into overdrive. Both issues have since been resolved. I'm hoping you guys can come up with something. The colors on these corals should be beautiful. They were when they arrived and the photos are awesome. The ones that are thriving from two months ago are still beautiful. I realize I've tossed out a whole bunch of information, but I'm just hoping something jumps out and says "this is clearly the issue". Help!!

Always the simplest things. Hole was definitely plugged with salt creep. Back to that silent tank I had two months ago. Thanks guys!

Ok, this is a bit of a weird one. I got some excellent help doing a hard plumbing job and love the underside of the tank, but I'm going a little batty over the overflow itself. Internal Corner Overflow that comes standard with the Marineland tanks. Was relatively quiet after properly doing the plumbing and seemingly worked perfectly. Now, three months later, I've got two issues. 1) The drain doesn't start easily after restarting the return pump. Every time I do a feed mode on the apex or turn it off to do a water change, I have to hover my finger over the off button on the return pump because the tank will fill and the sump will drain almost to (or slightly past) the point at which the return pump starts sucking in air before it will start to actually flush back down into the sump. This isn't a question of total water volume either. The water will literally completely cover the durso, I can turn off the return pump, wait a minute or two, and then FLUSH the overflow starts up properly and I can turn back on the pump. This is clearly not ideal, for a variety of reasons up to and including the fact that we'll be on vacation with a 10 year old and his dad feeding the fish while we're gone.... Any idea what's happening here??!? 2) The noise level (slurping) has increased exponentially. I'm probably just going to replace the oddly designed durso that came with it (tiny plastic pipe up top instead of a proper t-fitting and cap) but thought I'd throw that out there and see if anyone had suggestions for a better design (no, I can't do a herbie or a bean animal as I only have one drain hole). Stockman's standpipe? Always get great help from you guys so here's hoping! ~Frank PS Anyone know of an aquarium servicing company that does fish sitting? We're gone for a week and the only kid we know lives across the river in Arlington. He's keen to do it, but the 25 min drive each way is a little ridiculous for his parents. Will have an AFS for the DT, but two fish in quarantine aren't so lucky ...

Finally got everything set up, plumbed, running, and even mostly cycled in a brand new 150g that I had in storage for 2 yrs. Turned on the lights for the first time and noticed that there's a patch on the front pane with some scratches. They're not that horrible, but like with everything, now that I know they're there, it's going to bother me. I've heard people say you can't remove scratches, and other's who've had them removed from glass with great success. Thankfully, these are on the outside of the glass so no worries about draining etc. Anyone ever had scratches removed or done it themselves with cerium oxide? Heard great things and wondering if it leaves any real distortion? Scratches are relatively light (none catch a fingernail). Anyone ever used a shop in the area to fix them? While my first experience with DIY (hard plumbing) went really well (with many thanks to zygote2k from here for all the advice), I'm a little nervous about this one as it might lead to distortion in the viewing pane. Thanks!

Any more experienced reefers want to help a relative newbie with some plumbing issues? I've had reefs on and off for years but never done much of the plumbing myself. 150g Build. Eshopps ADV-300 sump. Sicce 4.0 return pump Marineland w/corner overflow (and corner overflow kit that it comes with). Plumbed initially by the store owner who was nice enough to drive a bunch of equipment up to D.C. and help out. Filled her up with RO/DI to do a leak test. Started running the plumbing and was shocked at how loud the overflow is. Along with a flushing effect making it worse. Flexible PVC for both drain and return (vacuum hose style for drain, clear tubing for return). Did some research and I think it's a "u-bend problem". Basically, the hose dips and climbs back to the intake for the sump. If I hold the tubing level (which involves pulling it to the front given the slightly-too-long length) flushing effect stops and overflow becomes normal sounding. Seems a solid solution except that I have a job and other things to do beyond holding up tubing. No real bracing I can tie it off to in the front either (tying it to the back makes it a little flatter but the length of the hose still means a small u bend with less frequent but still annoying flushes). Was thinking of a command strip attached to the inside front of the stand with a tie off to that but would welcome other ideas. Was also considering hard plumbing it but have very little confidence in my ability to do that without flooding the living room. Two other small questions. Where the return line is plugged onto the barbed fitting, there's seems to be a small amount of water that VERY slowly seeps until one drop runs down the line. Hose clamp? Seem to remember that from the last tank. And finally, where the drain enters the sump, there's a small amount of water seeping from a slip fitting. Tried plumbers tape and that slowed it to an even tinier trickle, but it's still there. More plumbers tape? Or is it time to silicone the little PVC piece to the bulkhead? Whew! I think that's it. Any of you plumbing artists out there have any advice, I'm always happy to learn. Thanks!!