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I would recommend for your price range that you go the used route and look at this site or reef centrals selling forum or on ebay for some T5s. Metal...
You pretty much let sponges do what they want to do. They seem to come and go in my tank. Some are very strong others are not.
Do you have algae problems? Tap water is usually a bad idea unless yours is exceptionally clean. Purple up will raise your calcium. You do not need...
I would go with skimmer and live rock also. I dont care for the wet dry to much
Consider the octopus line of skimmers. They work pretty good for a lower price skimmer. I had the coralife 220, and the 125 if you buy one of...
Welcome to the addiction oops I mean reef club. Gallons of tanks are just like motorcycles you start out with a minibike then a dirt bike before...
Thanks for all of the good ideas I have a bicolor angel in my SPS tank and he is driving me and my SPS crazy. NIP, NIP, NIP, THEN BITE. He thinks my...
I bought mine used off the selling forum on Reef Centrals web site. He took a 3rd off of his asking price. You might check there and see if anyone is...
It is sold through My Reef Creations. Welcome to MRC! - My Reef Creations They sell several different models. The 300 with the dual Beckett injectors...
Use that reef central link in the above post and look in the water chemistry section. Randy Farley is a reef chemist and has wrote many threads on...
I have read many tests on reef centrals web site. Check their lighting section for Sanjays testing. They claim that 10ks XM or ushio give you some of...
Octopus makes lower cost skimmers that does a better than average job keeping your tank clean. I use a Myreef creations MR3 skimmer it does well for...
I run multiple tanks with a pair of sumps all connected together. Your idea will work. Stylaster brought up a very good point in making sure your...
Is your ph and alkalinity stable they can effect all of the others.
I run about 300 gallons through a pair of sumps using one skimmer for a total of 5 tanks. I use a mrc300 skimmer to skim all of them. After getting...
The above posts may be true, but I do not think it explains why you had trouble raising your calc. Your mag reading was not that low that it should...
You probably did have precipation going on. If you were having trouble with raising your calcium I believe you had a pretty bad out of balance...
I have used a mag 12 on that same set up it will work real good. I also used the cheaper brands of pumps that claim 1600 gph but they are not as...
I had an high alk swing one time that wiped out my GSPs. It also killed my hammers. But all of my other corals lived including some harder to keep...
The only thing you can do is to keep doing water changes. What kind of test kit are you using for Alk? You are at 11 and if your test kit is a little...
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