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I just upload everything to my paradise account's webspace. Something like 10 megs free.

Bristlenoses usually will eat brown algae.

Hahaha, Nori from a LFS, good one.

Could say the same about the Jewels.

Bought mine from pak&save. Green stuff. I've gotta wonder how nutritious it is when I saw the nutritional table on it. Protein: 0 Carbohydrates: 0 etc hehe.

For a very basic sump, not too much. Umm, dunno how much it'd cost to set up the overflow, $20-30ish then $10-20 for having a hole drilled in the bottom? The sump would obviously depend on size, I got my sump that's 500X500X1100(Or was it 400X400?) for I think it was $130 with 3 partitions. Add a few bucks for having a few holes drilled in it if you want them...Say $150 not including pumps shouldn't be too unreasonable to buy the whole sump. Since you've already got the tank, make it $50ish.

I've come to the conclusion that you're probably better off spending the same amount of money and getting 1-2 more cool white tubes than worrying about getting a gro lux or whichever. Or just use the same number of cool whites and call the price difference paying for electricity.(Or buy a fish with it)

I'd imagine those skimmers might slightly overskim a nano... Of course, if your top off fails it would probably evaporate an entire nano's volume of water in...Lemme do some calculations...Ummm...12 seconds.

Oceansmotion.

You lost your right to an opinion when you said you like the looks of blood parrots.

Hmmm, I'd definitely be interested in a 4 way.

One thing you could do is take that 100L main tank and run a huge sump/refugium. 100L isn't a nano really, it's just small. But if you've got a convenient way to run something like a 200L remote sump with a refugium in it you won't really spend that much more but you'll have triple the water volume and I guess it'd work out to the tank being 3 times as stable.

If I'd checked in time to get this, I still had fish to drop off for Jude. Bad timing.

It you've got an RO/DI system you'd usually have a carbon filter before the membrane anyway. So you could put a T off after the carbon filter, use that for the fish. Or use the wastewater from the RO filter freshwater tanks. It's only going to have about 10% more impurities and all the chlorine would have been filtered out.

You're the first one I've ever heard say that. Everyone else for the most part says they're harmless detritus eaters. Only a possible risk when they get to be several feet long and the width of your thumb.

That's probably more due to physical limitations within the chiller. The pressure required to pump 900 GPH throw tiny pipes inside it...Well, you don't want it to spring a leak.

Yeah, don't worry about what the KH is. Especially don't bother trying to raise it because they want it low anyway.

I'd just go and throw a heater in the tank, adjust it until the light goes off then adjust it upwards a little bit every day until it's at the right temp. Nothing so specific as 1 degree every few days. I'd go more for like 2 days for up to the temperature you want.

I'd like two for my cichlid tank.

You're going to spend massive amounts for a 20L per 10min RO filter. That's about 700 gallons per day. Most RO filters are about 1/20th that. At least home filters. Why not use straight tapwater with some dechlor. That's usually good enough.

It will cool the water just fine, the outlet temp will be a little warmer, but you'll get more of it, the total cooling will be exactly the same. If anything it will be a little more efficient because the temperature of the water near the end of the chiller's system will be a bit warmer and so easier to remove the heat from.

I don't see why you're talking about raising the hardness or PH, you haven't mentioned the PH, but kribs like the water a bit acidic and soft, they're NOT african lake cichlids like, say, an electric yellow. They're from the rivers in africa, water wise they'd go better with your average south american cichlids than the lake cichlids. I'd say throw them in the new tank, seed it from your other tank to get the bacteria jump started. They're tiny fish, probably wouldn't even get the ammonia levels up to a detectable range before the tank cycled.

Heh, you're stressing over a little brown algae? I should post a picture of my tank at the moment, I'm sure it'd make you feel much better.

Sucks.

Looks good. What's that in the background on the center of the second pic? Some big anemone or something?