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38.5" to the top of the plywood the tank sits on.
I suggest getting your sump, refugium, skimmer and any other equipment together and seeing how much room they take, especially the skimmer height....
The forum on their website was a big help to me. Lots of helpful people, many of which are end users like ourselves but can make sense out of the...
I design my stands for best viewing pleasure. If its in a room where people normally stand I make it higher, if they normally sit I make it lower...
We need actual test levels, not that it tests well. Well is a relative term and may mean different things to different people. When you say the salt...
The one thing the Aqueon/AGA site tells you is all their larger tanks have a tempered bottom. Drilling the bottom is out for sure.
Never ever, did I say never, add anything to your tank unless you first have a good test kit for that particular substance and use it on a regular...
The thing that helps the best ,even more than filter pads, is a few cups of live sand from an established tank to jump start the bacteria growth....
I got my Southdown about 6 years ago at a Home Depot. I don't think you can find it any more though. It was bought out by Old Caste and later...
I love my Sixline, its the most entertaining fish in the tank. I also have a purple pseudochromis which I inherited from a friend. i wouldn't...
The beneficial bacteria are not free swimming, they live in and on the rock(mostly down deep inside porous rock) and sand so using old water has...
I wouldn't. Even though it may be suitable for drinking its almost certainly not suitable for a reef. I don't know what you mean by 99.9% pure but...
For the basics API is fine when you are just starting, for more critical measurements once i am up and running I use Salifert. Once established you...
Here is a link to their technical information but I don't see those dimensions. http://www.aqueonproducts.com/assets/011/19784.pdf
Check to see if your water utility uses chloramines for residual disinfection. If so you may need to use a better DI resin to remove the ammonia.
Install it after the carbon block and before the RO membrane. What you are measuring is pressure availablke to the membrane and evidence of plugging...
Dow Filmtec advertises their RO membranes to produce their rated output at 50 psi and 77 degrees F water temperature. Most of us do not have 77...
The finest you can get is best. I have 330 lbs of sugar sized Southdown (5-6") in a 100G reef system with two Koralia K4's, a 1000GPH closed loop...
Tangs can get big for a 55 but maybe one hippo tang. I keep a sixline, yellow tang, foxface rabbit, false perc, yellow stripe maroon and a purple...
Current 100G reef system is 6 years old this month but the two reefs I sold to finance this one were 13 and 16 years old.
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