a nother chiller???

You have a large sump and smallish tank now But its purddy one I tell you what ! I'd put beside any tank its age and many many more 10x's its age and maturity level for growth and coloration and delicate species of hard to acquire and keep sps corals LOL

When these outgrow this tank like the old hex flatback then I'll move them into the 350 or 500 gal tank

 

500? There was no mention of and I didn't agree to no 500?!?!

And we have a chiller so I don't have to worry about floating frozen bottles of water anymore.

 

Move the tank to your basement, thats what I did!

 

The truck will hold either or ! Scott called me the other week wanting to see if I wanted another 500 they had just pulled out to replace acrylic was scratched up and they wanted a new tank .. Tanks are Us!

 

OK, no more hijaking this thread....we'll just have to talk about this when I get home

 

We were using the 1 liter water bottles to help bring down the tank temp. They freeze quickly and were easy to manage. Our tank was a 75 gallon display with a 30 gallon sump/fuge and T5 lighting. We ran a fan on the sump (that's a big help, but you have to keep an eye on your water levels).

When the tank temp hit 80 deg F, we would add 2 frozen bottles to the display tank, in the area of the overflow. Temp would drop .5 degrees over the next 15 minutes as the bottles warmed up. With 8 bottles, we could drop 4 degrees... you can only do this if someone is home all day to monitor the temp and manage the changing of the bottles.

After 1 summer of this....we bought a 1/3 hp chiller...no more bottles...freedom to go out for an early dinner and movie...priceless...

 

:thumb_up: Definitely makes going on a summer vacation less worrisome too...not that I've been on one lately or anything

 

Wasn't you copied on that e-mail.... It's now 500g to 800g tank. ;D

 

Nobody's talking to you!

 

thanks for all the help
i will be doing the bottle trick for the moment
but well be buying a chiller what size sould i get for a 46g dt 10gsump 3g rufeg
and were to get one for less than 500
the old lady will strate up kill me if i spend more than that