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Yep it works really well over on a other forum i use its grate for arranging frag exchanges making new friends in your area that are reef keepers and it is especially useful in a emergence. :good:

How about a map feature that will allows you to view where fellow TFF members are located. This would have lots of benefits in my opinion for e.g. over xmass my main heater in the sump went and i was un able to get to the LFS because of other commitments. I looked on the map on a other forum i...

thank you :blush: Um i have not been around as much as i would like to be lately seffie i have been having a terrible time with my tank :crazy: and any spare time that i have had has been spent around at a fellow reefers helping him set up his 1st reef tank a 24g D&D which lasted the hole of...

i would hate to think what i have spent to create the perfect spot to place and build my tank especially if you take the building site into consideration as well :lol: ££££ + and some more :crazy: don’t tell the wife :hyper:

I use self adhesive vinyl :good: (that’s sticky-backed plastic to all you Blue Peter fans!!! :lol: ). the same quality used to signwrite vehicles and shop windows ect it has 5-7 year exterior life so its hardwearing as well and you can also get the same colour ACRYLIC/PERSPEX SHEET,s cut to...

Sorry for the delay in updating this thread :blush: , i have been going through a bad patch with the setting up of this tank with one disaster after another :shout: , the most resent been brook nela!!! :crazy: I bought a true pair of yellow banded maroon clowns and within 48hrs of putting them...

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I have used the api test kits in the past and like you. I also found the results to be pretty poor :crazy: so after some advice from the peeps on this site i changed over to salifert tests for everything except phosphates. I use D&D high sensitivity for this as it can get down to lower reading...

Congratulations to you both!!!

Likewise i hope the little man is ok AK77 has more or less nailed it, as for you having pieces missing that’s not the case your weir is plumbed up properly {the way it was designed to be plumed} the problem with it though is its very fiddly to set up properly, your suppose to close the valve...

Ok if you look at the pic the the yellow pipe is the feed to the sump you use the valve to control the level of water in the weir the green pipe is a failsafe pipe just in case a snail ect blocks the yellow one the red pipe is the return. The problem with this set up is the noise {water falling...

Nope sorry :blush: my mistake gives me 1 min to draw some pics up

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Here you got m8t http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-02/hcj/feature/index.php if you are going to manually remove this found that the best way to remove it, was to remove the rock from the tank slice through the steams of the bubble {leaving the bubble intact} then take your scalpel and hack...

Thanks for that Ben :good: That’s exactly what i was thinking; you can get M/H with timers built in, so why would a standalone timer not do the same job? :unsure: When i suggested this idea to my LFS owner he looked at me like i was nuts and said you don’t want to do that, you will set the...

Is it safe to plug a MH into a timer? Or do i run the risk of burning them out and stating a fire? How do you guys do it?

Thanks for the comments peeps there really appreciated as always :good: Well I have had one hell of a time with the pluming on this tank, basically the tank manufacturers F***t the weir up big time. Basically the tank has bracing bars round the top 1 inch down from the top edge, then there is a...

Oops sorry NEMO :blush: it was the quote at the top of the page by AK77 that through me any hoow edited to say NEMO

thank you VM

Looking very good NEMO :good: I can see that a lot of work has gone into that stand it looks superb m8t. What are you going to have in your sump DSB? If so I would recommend having your skimmer before the DSB, one of the benefits of a DSB is the amount plank tonic larvae which come from the...

thanks haych :good: well peeps this build has been a PITA from start, with electrical problems {me putting a screw through a power cable :blush: } the height problem with the cabinet {again me not planning properly :blush: } and so on, but the end is now in site I have the tank in place after...

Thanks for that Anguilla, I will have to take a look at the grow boards that you have mentioned,:good: well peeps my tank has finally been delivered form AC aquatics {after a 10 week waiting list :crazy: } and I have got to say it was well worth the wait this really is a quality tank the black...

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Congratulations on the house move Rob. :good: it’s such a shame that you’re going to have to strip the tank down though as its looking so goooooooooood :drool: , but I guess it’s going to be the easiest way, if not the only way. so yep you’re going to have your hands full of the next few weeks...

Any updates rob how’s things going with the scolly? and the frag tank have you got it set up yet? did the mp40 come back to life once it was dried out?

looking good nemo.. :good: going to tag along and watch this one develop

thank you seffie ... Anyhow must go and get bashed on before SWMBO comes home from work and accuses me of sitting on my bum all day on the tin ternet :hyper: :rofl:

yes thanks seffie the other half loves the room it turn out really well :good: and to be honest she has been a little more easy going on me with this build :sly: , so yep I am really enjoying it now it’s come in along nicely now and I have also just had some good news from AC aquatics, my tank...

Well time for a little update I think... I have lined the cubed out with white plastic cladding {the idea is I can just wipe any evaporation, water spills up with a cloth} I have primed and painted the majority of the wood work to help make it water tight {rest to be painted later on into...

It’s been a couple of days since I was last on here, so just a couple of quick lines... the room is now complete... I have made the changes to the cabinet legs and shelf, so I should now have the room to get the polystyrene sheets under the tank. let me tell you it sounded easy but buy...

well seffie the bespoke tank is 30L X 26H X 24W the hole is 30 ¼ L x 27 ¼ H but when the shelf that the tank sits on is in place the height of the hole is reduced to only 26 ¼ inch not enough room for the polystyrene under the tank so what I have planed is to chop 18mm off the back and the...

Well some good news and some bad... I will start with the good. We have got the room 99% finished now carpet down new sofa and furniture in ECT :good: . all I have to do now is fit the new radiator which should of been a strait forward job in its self but SWMBO decided to have a clear up and...

I’m going to be using a tunze osmolator 3155 in my new reef build as my top of device and i am thinking of adding an inline Tunze Calcium Dispenser 5074.0000. i would be interested in any feedback from any one that has used a Tunze in line Calcium Dispenser / pros & cons feedback would be...

thanks for that seffie really appreciated. :good: and yep your correct SWMBO sure is going mental :crazy: but on the up side I am hoping to have the room fully decorated by Thursday at the very latest as the new carpet sofa ect are coming on Friday, so that should put a smile back on SWMBO...

Tank under the breakfast bar sorry for the delay in getting the pics up :blush: just been so busy with this project. any hoooooow here ya go... Oooo.. and one of my new baby i need an I,D on this if anyone can help me

thank you :good: Just a quick line or two all the fish and corals ect have settled into their temp home really well, I have done a 5 gallon water change on them today just to keep them going :good: , all though the other half is going mental now because the tank is in the breakfast room under...

Thanks for the comments peeps much appresiated :good: and as rod would say “SWMBO“{ lol} has cracked the whip and told me to get my finger out with this so I have taken a few days of work to try and get this project done as quickly as I possibly can, so I started boarding the ceilings yesterday...

Me personally I would go for a weir every time :good: over just a duso in the tank :blink: . it would always be in the back of my mind, what if that bulk head seal failed the entire water content of the tank would just dump striate out onto the carpet. at least with a weir system you have 2...

thanks for the comments guys :good: :lol: nope not on the couch, much worse than that I was at work last night... :P so have not got too much done today.studded and dry lined the door way where the tank is going to be, and striped all the wall paper from the back room

access to the tank will be from the breakfast room, there will be a full size door in there, it will just look like a door into a room but when it’s open I will have access to the sump and main tank so maintenance ECT should be striate forward any hooow its been a long day the wall is down the...