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“dreading having to do a maintenance day” and nanos don’t mix well. You might want to look into some form of nutrient export or get more regular with the water changes.

Look good man, check on that scrubber I think it’s only good for smaller tanks. I just fired up a blob of chaeto in my sump, maybe consider that instead of a scrubber. That center section of the trigger sump would probably work good for a chaeto spot.

I’d be willing to bet a pinky that it isn’t your lighting. Tell us a little more about your tank and water parameters.

To be fair, my experience with gyres is limited to the first generation, maybe the new ones are better, I don’t know.

I have mine in a 1/2 gallon mason jar. I just top off with ro/di. I tried clado, Java ferns, and other brackish tolerant plants, none of them lasted for me. Only the green algae growing on the substrate has lasted.

If the lid is keeping evaporation down, it is also limiting gas exchange. This means the difference in keeping them alive for a year or two vs. keeping them going for up to twenty years. I’ve had mine for six years.

I can’t speak to Neptune WAVs, but Gyres are garbage. You might as well get Jebao and replace them every year when they fail. Get a couple MP40s and call it a day.

Yeah, I’m open to that. You got PM.

I have an SCA 301 buried in the garage, let me know if you are interested and I’ll dig it out.

You should keep the lid off for gas exchange. Those sealed vases (ecosphere) are basically a death chamber for Opaes.

Anyone near Albany have some clean chaeto I could get a hunk of?

How old, condition, pics?

I got another way to put a hole in that pipe. Make a ceramic plug that closely fits the ID of the pipe. The top of the plug is cut on a 45. Place thermite in the void created by the angle cut in the top of the plug. Wrap the thermite section in foil so it stays put for the ride down. You’ll have a length of magnesium wire in the thermite to ignite it with wires and a power source up top. Lower the whole thing down into the pipe and let it rip. Probably want to do a test run on a section of similar pipe to get the mass of thermite and ceramic plug geometry right.

Happy birthday, I think I met you once!

I like it, reminds me of my old frag setup, “da grouch”.

Welcome to PNWMAS Carla, your tanks look great!

I had the xtra bright reefbrites (the black ones), I was not impressed by the brightness. Seemed on par (pun intended) with a t5ho.

You can get those little crimpies at a bicycle shop too, that one on 1st street downtown Albany would have them.

Are you running a carbon block? Also what is the chlorine residual of the raw water? Chlorine and chloramines will tear up a membrane in a hurry.

Get the 40b and call it a day. You fix that leak in the acrylic and another one springs up, no bueno.

That's about double what they can do, 3/8" or 10mm is about the limit.

Is this a riddle, or a real project? Maybe if you could tell us what he is trying to do it would be easier to come up with a solution. I don't see any way to cut holes in a 4" steel pipe 13' deep from the inside. How big do the holes need to be? Super sketchy, but the only way I can think you would be able to do this would be to lower a cutting torch into the pipe, you would have to rig it up so the blowback wouldn't burn the torch or the lines, only way I can think of other than a hand grenade, lol.

Sounds like it needs to be removed. What is he trying to do?

Save up some coin and get yourself a proper overflow and a return pump.