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I really want to build a custom sump for my tank, however i live in an apartment and lack the tools to cut the plastic and anything else that is required. I was curious if anyone would lend a helping hand...Ill buy you some beer and food and if need be pay you for your time, and of course pay for all materials...I am trying to do this a cheap as possible, so anyone that might be interested in helping me please let me know. Thank you, Brandon

24" is plenty tall my tank I am getting ready to set up is 24" and I would not want it anytaller...My stand is 36" so it sits at a very good hieght to view the tank.

yeah my bad... i had to dump the pics to make space... I will take some more pics tonight...and post them first thing tomorrow morning.

Welcome to owning blue tangs...they seem to be very easy suceptiable to ich.... I have had maricin work for me on ich...It has not been proven, but it has for me...and if you add a little to the tank daily, it should not harm anything. If you have tangs, I recommend a UV as well on the tank.

I wish I had my big tank up, cause I would be the first in line for this...Only if it was 3 months from now...oh well maybe I can get on it next time.

Some other ideas open brain, some favia, galaxea, torch/hammer. to give you an idea I have a 12 gallon nano with 30watts of light and i have an open brain, another brain of sorts, galaxea, candy cane, hammer, two different kinds of monti, and another SPS unsure of the type. I can tell you that everything is doing very well and is slowly growing. It can be done, I am proof. here is my tank http://www.pnwmas.org/forums/showthread.php?t=90

I have monti under 30w of light, they about 1" from the light so with that many watts as longs they were about 4-6" from the light I am sure they would do fine, they will not grow fast, but mine are slowly growing.

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OK, well it looks like I am going to have to just run the skimmer via hanging it on the side of the sump.

Does any one if gravity feed alone with be enough for the UV and the sump? if so what way would I judge the the flow through the UV, so I know that I am getting 100-200 gph per hour? Would I hook up a power head put it in the water and let the water that passes through the UV flow into a bucket and after 10 mins measure the water that is in the bucket, and then hook the UV up to the T fitting from the bulk and adjust the ball valve until in a 10 min period I get the same amount of water out of the UV?

I am going to run the mag closed loop I think now so it should not bother the sump at all. As for the skimmer it just seems so ineffiecent, as opposed to running all the water through the skimmer then into the sump. I do not know...I just want this to be efficent and with nothing in my tank....How can I do this?

that is the problem, I do not know how I will figure flow out for the UV and the skimmer? How about some other suggestions...it just seems inefficent to just have the skimmer skim the sump water? I am trying to make this all efficent as possible, with out having anything in the tank.

I am not sure what kind of info you are looking for or what age your students are but www.liveaquaria.com has some good info on what kind of care some inverts need.

OK...So here is the what I want to do, I do not know even know if it is possible.... I do not want anything in my tank, with the exception of some bulk head fittings w/ strainers in the back of the tank. I have a 54 gallon corner pentagon tank... that will have about a 8 gallon sump. So....Ideally I would like to be able to have bulk head that drains the water into the sump (so I do not have to have an overflow box), but in line with this I would like to have my UV and my protien skimmer hooked up and have the water pass through both of these before the water goes to the sump. Once the the water passes through both of these and into the sump I would then like to have a Mag9.5 pull the water from the sump and return it to the tank via the OM 4-way-nano. (heaters will also be in the sump). Is this possible or not? Would I just need to run the mag and the OM closed loop? Please help me.

Congrats!!!!!! So we all get to come crash, I mean be a witness the wedding right? LOL. And details how did you ask her, where at etc?

You could get that with alot people...I wish I could afford it. I would build one myself, but I live in an apartment and have no tools, plus no where to work on one...That is what I was going up to my dad's for, but he is really busy now, so I have uncomplete stand, but have everything to get it up and going just need to finish it DOH! But that stand is absolutely amazing...If you ever get bored and want to build another for fun, Ill pay for materials and provide all the beer (afterwards) and pizza you can eat.

Looks like the price of these corals will go up for aquacultured ones. They will probably turn into LE's and we will have to sell a kidney to get a frag DOH! Oh well I am glad they are doing something about it. i wish the government would get more involved on some other aspects of this trade.

I have a stand that my father and I were going to completey finish for my corner tank. However he lives about 2 hours away and is very, very busy so I think it might be easier to just try and finish it myself down here. I am just going to buy a generic door from home depot for it and drill some holes on the side of it for plumbing, cords, hoses, etc. All that needs to be done really is have it painted black. Does anyone know anyone that will squirt this for me? let me know, I would really like to get my tank up. Thank you, Brandon

I just find it hard to believe that the coral reefs (or earth for that matter) have not gone through this in the hundreds of years that they have been around.

there was as huge thread on reefcentral on this... I do not think it is our fault at all... The corals have survived more then this in the hundreds of years they have been in the ocean. Also, global warming is not something that us as humans are doing to the earth, its more about the earth's cycle and the trend it is on right now... We are actually heading into an ice age. I think we should be more concerned about humans destroying habitat for us to live.... That is just my 2 cents though. I have a feeling I will get some flame on this one

I put my cats in front of the tank and they do not even look twice at them, they could care less, guess I am lucky!

That is SH!T is funny, I am laughing out loud at work and people are looking at me, like I am crazy. rofl

The cause of SARS!!!! LOL