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    Just put a deposit on...

    A new acrylic tank from Advanced Acrylics to replace my oddly shaped 70. 37.5x15.75x30 (30 inches tall). 3/4" acrylic to support that strange size. External overflow, black back, drilled, bulkheads included, eurobraced. :) I'll be able to pick it up sometime in late December. I can't wait!!!
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    Notes to self

    Nikon's D3200 sucks for low light video. YouTube sucks for over-compressing video. The built-in speakers in my TV suck for playing Torley Wong's music. Windows 10 sucks when doing processor intensive stuff like Premiere. Anyway I made a thing. I just wanted a nice background video for my TV...
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    I guess it's time...

    ...to upgrade my RO/DI. The RO Buddie has served me well. But with summer here, the chloramine levels in my water have skyrocketed. In the DI cart on the RO Buddie you can see around 20% is exhausted. That was after one 3 gallon bottle. The stock RO Buddie carbon isn't cutting it. After...
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    Odyssea 30" 250w MH / T5 Fixture $120

    Odyssea 30" Metal Halide System ADV Plus http://www.aquatraders.com/30in-Metal-Halide-HQI-T5-Aquarium-Light-p/54262.htm I only used it for a little while on my 70, but it bleached the heck out of the corals. Too bright. And raising it from the tank to reduce the light wouldn't work out because...
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    Aqueon ProFlex Model 2 Sump Question

    Anybody else have one of these? Are you using the down pipe from the elbow into the sock chamber? Reason I ask is I have flushing problems when running my Sicce 800gph return at anything other than turned all the way down. I'm thinking it's their special "bubble trap" thing where the water...
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    Anybody rocking a planar overflow?

    I'm thinking about doing one for my new nano, and would like to hear from any of you who've done one yourself. Maybe even get eyes on (if that's not too creepy?). Planar overflow drawing in case you know it by another name: I'm thinking I'd like to dogleg it so the bulkhead is on the...
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    Anaheim checking in

    I've been lurking for a while, a few lame posts, whatever. But I haven't introduced myself, so here goes. Don. In Anaheim. Current tanks are a 70 tall and a 5.5 pico. I've been out of the hobby since the mid 90's, and last year was given a glass box. So it snowballed. I ran an aquarium...
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    What's this orange guy in my zoas?

    I can't find anything similar. I mean, it's a softy of some kind, but what? It spontaneously grew off this rock a week or two after a peroxide dip to get rid of some difficult algae. It ate a mysis shrimp today (which is why I even noticed it).
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    Gah, convince me one way or another

    My nano is happy. My 70 is finally ready to be moved into the living room and I can start building. But I've got another 5g tank on the shelf, still in the box. I was originally going to make it a nice desk tank for work. Make a suspension shelf and fill it with some tough softies or lps. A...
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