chimera

Hmmm, searching white pages and yellow pages online shows no results. Are you sure thats the company? Wonder why they are unlisted?

lucky bastard...

looking great dude, i like the last shot - not overly "packed" with sps, easy to look at yet stunning all the same. if work out how to split that anemone, i'll put my name down for one

nice tank, pity about the ibm - telecom should try running decent hardware like hp left-handed too I see

thats coz they're all in my tank

jealous? f'n oath i am! sticking with the italian theme then? :lol: suggestions? biggest one i can think of is make sure the last section in your sump (after the baffles) is large enough to hold massive amounts of water for any water that back syphons. once you've made your sump etc, its hard to change it without alot of time, effort and money. closed loops? go HARD and make heaps. i highly recommend looking at oregonreef.com and seeing steve weasts closed loop design. very smart.

isnt that the same size as your old tank? if I were you, i would go shorter and wider instead. 2500x700x600

that sounds familiar... want BIGGER!

give the cube to me so you have more room for the new big tank

noooo, go 2.7x700x600!!! more depth looks awesome and the fish will love it!

:evil: so what's the secret!!!

dinner at yours in 6 months?

what size are your reflectors, do they cover most of the surface area?

depends on what you're keeping, if sps, then 3 halides on that size wont be enough. i have similar setup on your current tank, 5 foot with 2 halides, just NOT enough light. go more halides or maybe add mixture of halides and t5's

as in the slight covering of hair algae on the rock?

yeah, 'sealed' obviously being the key. still, the less piping, the less joins, the less chance of problem cookie - now that poor dude must be well pissed. something so simple losing all that time, effort and money. always makes you look at the highest chance of failure in your system and build redundancy around it - if at all possible!

i realise this, just whether the rate of flow will be sufficient is what im questioning. it means mounting the chiller higher up (above the sump so water can flow out and into it) currently it's sitting under the sump (but not hooked up) Time to build a shelf i think i like the idea of running the chiller and fluidised reactor from gravity, will feed them direct back into my sump rather than fuge, this will reduce the flow of water through my fuge which i think is currently overkill.

the way i see it is gravity is approx 10m/sec/sec, only the area of the pipe into and through the chiller would dictate how much volume you get through. a pump is mechanically driven forcing flow at a greater rate/acceleration thus could push the water through quicker? gravity feeding the chiller is possible (I would have to relocate it - thats the tricky part) but i dont know what sort of flow rate that will be getting (specifically because i dont know if the small diameter coils would impede flow only fed by the acceleration of gravity). it would obviously need a bypass if being fed from the display tank overflow for two obvious reasons, if the chiller got blocked and second if i want to remove it from the system (yikes, more plumbing and more ball valves!) i will configure it this way (im sure most of us would rather do this than have yet another pump) but want some evidence of what flow rate i'd be getting through it?

wouldnt the size of the coils in the chiller slow it down? requires 1200lph minimum.

to feed the chiller? i dont think so. the chiller has a minimum flow rate throughput, gravity just wont suffice.

yup! if my closed loop plumbing isnt a sight for sore eyes, i dont know what is. even a professional plumber would probably cry at the sight of it. i know how much pain and frustration i went through getting the bitch plumbed (as well as crap from the wife). very happy with it though hang on... i still get crap from the wife... with what plumbers charge these days, ($60+/hr) it might be a good money earner on the side!

:lol: yeah not a cheap purchase. my chiller is just sitting there, unused since prior to last summer. in fact i didnt even get a chance to hook it up last summer, the tank got up around the 28 degrees. more plumbing and another pump... :roll:

why's that wasp? it's 8.21 (pinpoint) i think i dont evaporate massive amounts because of the sump room (huge amounts of cold air/o2 flow through the room) even so heaters are hardly on at all. seems to remain constant at 25 degrees (or 24.8 to be precise )

3.5% evaporation seems alot! must be the 27 degrees.