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Any solution for noisy overflow. I heard about stand pipe, what is this and how it looks like. thanks

After reading so much on the sump/refugium I think You need to put the skimmer before the refugium in that way skimmer will skim beter and refuge will send pods to the display tank. Also the 7.5" baffle need to be 4" and the last baffle need to be 9-10" then your return pump will have more...

But if the power goes out then all the 10G water will be in my refugium which might flood the refugium . So u are saying the hole in the sump should be at the bottom , cant we drill the hole at a water level says 6" from the bottom if its a 12" tall tank. then only few gallons will go to the...

I am thinking of adding a sump for my skimmer. I already have a refugium 20G which sits under the stand. I have 2 choices. 1) get a 10G tank and sit it next to the refugium and get the overflow in the sump instead of the refugium and then use a pump to send the outflow from the sump to the...

What I have done so far is to cut a small piece of micron bag and tie wrap on the input of the pump in this way nothing will go inside the pump and the length of the pump stays the same. Next i will cut a piece of plex and try to create a baffle inside the refugium so that macros stay away from...

On my 72G tank with 20g refugium I have replaced my prizim with ES5-2. The only place I can put my ES5-2 is in the Refugium. But the Refugium has substrate, LR and macros. So if I run the pump its going to suck in the macros which should be wrong. I like to keep my macros but should i put a foam...

I am running this 72G Bow front for 6 months. for last six weeks whenever I add new fish they died in few days. I have clowns, damsel, fire fish and scopas TanG. I added a naso, blue tang and a powder brown tang during a period of 6 weeks but they all died in few days, They dont eat much, got...

What is Pyrax glass

If i put a glass will it wont break from the heat of MH. They do get too Hot.

i am using 2x175W Mogul base MH. I need a glass or arcylic to cover my pendant so water wont splash on the bulb and reflectors. The pendant is sitting 8" from the water level and the top of the aquarium is open for air exchange. where the best place to get glass or arclyic.

My question will be what kind of GLASS can i put between the MH and the water. Currently there is NO glass between the MH and Water. does it need to be UV and how strong that it wont shatter. Where one can get this kind of Glass. My MH are in a pendant 8" away from water level from...

Does any one know who makes a Canopy for 72G bow front. Thanks.

I just add 2 pagodas to my 72G reef. after few hrs it is spiting this hair like mucus from the polyps on it. Any one know what is this and is it safe for the reefs and fish. all the polyps on it are fully open and it do that for few hrs every day. My other question is : Is it safe to use those...

Well thanks for all the replys. I got it working. What I did was fill the U tube with water and wrap each end with plastic wrap. Put the u tube back in the 2 chambers and pull the wrap it works just great. I did 3-4 times and it works like a champ every time. One thing I like bad about the...

I am having problem in starting siphon in my new Amiracle mudd filter. It has a overflow box and the instruction says put a tube in the U Tube and suck the air out. I tried this but before all the air comes out the water start coming from the small tube in the mouth. Is there any easy way to...