jason the filter freak

It shouldn't be an issue dude they're not that heavy

I showed the led fixture to some one else, and they decided to buy if for $60 and put a screen in front of it and use it as "mood" lighting for his rec room, good riddance, it ony cost me $20 minus the resistor and wiring work done by hand. I've read more about the led fixtures, and it looks like you need to buy the ones meant for marine use any way. I'll go with a PC light foxture

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I was told some one in the club has a PAR meter, I was wondering who... and if perchance I can borrow it?

I don't know wether or not this is a stupid quesition but, I'm working on building my own hood for a 5 gallon nano tank.... In the hood I've made there are 125 LEDS being fed by of course a massive 12 volt DC power supply. 90 are white LEDS 35 are blue LEDS I hooked it up in a room roughly 25 by 20 feet with the lights off, and it was like an air plane was comming in for a landing!! It lit up the entire room like day light, the olny reason i did so many is because my calculations showed that 125 LEDS = 10 watts (roughly) Yea I know i coulda saved money and gone with a florescent fixture, but the LEDS were brighter (maybe a mistake?, and last longer) Is it the intensity of light, or the amount of light that corals need? I also don't want to blind the , I'll be putting in the tank.

I can just see a snail/welk jumping an unsupecting fish like a DC mugging lol ... , but I found stuff on google as well that said they were oppertunistic feeders... means they'll eat what ever they can get their grubby little hands ???? on, dead or alive

Broken link dude I think this is what you meant http://www.innovativeaquatics.com/products/nautilis3A.html

Whats that pvc fixture off the back of your tank? With the inline pump... I have an inline pump sitting around my house that in theory pushed 800 GPH of water i think... it's not written on there and I have no idea how to calculate it. Anywho I was going to use one of those, in some application or another... to drive my UV sterilizer when i can afford it, but I thought for now i could use it to drive the bucket for now, i think if i did a closed loop system it would work, any opnions?

Why would I want to gravity feed it? I'm asking not arguing? Whats the advantage...? How would I do it? and what would prevent it from flooding in a power outtage?

Unfortunately I just switched over from a crushed coral sand bed less than 2 weeks ago... I don't know. I haven't had any problems yet...

Since I have a pretty decent tendancy to start argumentative threads I thought I'd ask this, and becuase my power sweep power heads keep sezing... Whats the best way to create current in a tank, I have a 55 gallon tank with about 60 - 70 Lbs of LR, it has a silica sand bed. If I don't count any of my power heads that are currently in the tank (5) the olny thing creating current are two out puts from a fluval 305, and 405 (directed down over my heaters) and on the oppsite side of the tank pointing along the lenght and toward the surface to churn the surface is the output from my sump (400 GPH) Whats the best way to create current/waves/flow that's healthy and conductive to the tank ... 1. where's the best place to place power heads, 2. where/ which direction should the be pointed, 3. how much current is nessecary, 4. how much is too much? I'm not interested in sea swirls, or other similar devices I plan to make some of these with Maxi Jet 900's http://www.wamas.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8317 I was told my 1200 would be too much for the tank.

uNFORTUNATELY, IT SEEMS i CAN'T find anything byt silica sand, nor am I guessing the other stuff is all that cheap... there are no marine supply store around be, and darned if I'm going to pay shipping and handling on .... sand. I'm guessing though if the water flow can be kept fast enough I shouldn't have a problem with it... Next question. I ready most of the thread as well, but being full time in both college and the buisness wolrd I'm struggeling a bit here... What's any ones opnion here, should i have a pump pushing water into the RDSB, or pulling it out?

glad my stupidity, and curiosity could benifit others

EDIT: NEW DESIGN

I'll get the skimmer asap, and the DSB mod looks pretty cheap, a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, a return line, and some sand looks pretty cheap.

Where could I put the 5 gallon bucket though?

A DSB was suposed to be a cheap alternative, i think I'll have to draw water from my sum, and then loop back into my sump. Live rock is expensive as H-E-double hocky sticks, thowign out the bio balls, is not an option for me. At least not yet, I will however when i have the money for alot of extra LR. My fuge area is gowing smaller with every suggestion that people make, but I have some ideas... speaking of which where is a good place to get the substrate for a refigium?

OK LET ME CLARIFY .... I have a complete and utter lack of space, dorm sized room I have olny the space under my 55 gallon wich is about 44 inches, and already 21 inches of that is taken up by a sump. Here's a pic the member who formerly owed this tank took, note, in my case it sits about 4 inches off the wall.

Well aren't all power heads AC? What can bout make wave meakes witht athat,s not a Sea swril or other similar piece of hard ware? DOH! We have a few thousand dollars of RC Planes in the house.... and it just occurs to me that propellers are directional, where as what comes in the power heads aren't! darn I feel dumb...

OK, whe I get the money I scrap the bio alls and pur inplcae the LR, should I treat it like bio balls and have water trickling over it....? Ohter wise whats the best way to raise the waterlevel in the sump? Next it looks like I'll just build a seerate RSDB and refugium.... Nooo idea how i'll do this with the amout of space I have, but I'll manage. Any other recomendations? Well and build that 5 foot down draft skimmer I've been looking at.

Does any one thing that two modded MJ1200's would be too much, too little or just right for a 55 if faced toward each other and put on a wave timer, and I saw the thing about shutting down to go along with the lights, how nessecery is it to give your tank a break from current. LASTLY DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY GOOD PICS OF HOW THEY MADE THEIR PROPELLERS? Oh well this answered most of my questons so here's a good refference for the rest of us on how to make these beautiful pieces of work! :wink: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.p...mp;pagenumber=1

Ok I'm glad I'm getting feed back... I'll put a smaller pump and a sponge prefilter over the intake for the pump to help slow down water flow... As for the bio balls, I still need those to cut my amonia and nitrites right? I mean I spend more than $160 on the bio ball sump, and it's also the olny place I can add a protien skimmer to the system. I think having the baffels will also help slow down the water flow. Any more suggestions?