Puffer Chick's 46 Gallon Bowfront Reef

Your lucky most of my fish will be jumpers

 

lol If i go up to the tank and look down in it, my Naso will come up and splash me if Im not feeding them.. :| That or he thinks Im gonna splash him back?


Thats the closest i get to fish out of water.

 

I did not know that a glass top would cause loss of gas exchange. A comment was added about a sump, I have a glass top on my tank, but i have a 10 gallon sump underneath. Would this be sufficient for gas exchange that you were mentioning?

 

I wanted to thank you for your posting about installing your skimmer. I read about your tank regularly, although I don't have much to add or post frequently. However, I have just gotten a skimmer into my SW tank configuration.

I had a basic idea of which things to adjust but your own description of the process was helpful.

Sharing the experience - works for me.

BTW, your tank is coming along very nicely.

 

happy to have helped you

and thank you, tank is finally coming along

 

there are several solutions to jumpers (I for one build a wall around my top instead of a lid)

My major concern here is the mesh in the water. I would make sure that stops dipping into the water asap.


http://www.3reef.com/forums/3reef-s-diy-video-contest/peredhil-diy-video-submission-68450.html

 

Peridhil your eggcrate wall is cool. That's what I'm going to do. But I have no jumpers as of now. Knock on wood.

 

yea i really like how you did yours. the mesh touching the water so far hasnt caused any isse, algae just builds up on the part that touches the water, but i told my dad i want to fix the eggcrate and mesh once i get my vortech

your lucky, all my fish will be jumpers

 

since i don't know what it's made of, I'll say it's very possible it's leeching heavy metals or other toxins into the water... you wouldn't 'see' any issue for a while... you wouldn't know if it's causing problems yet...

 

what do you think would be a temporary solution? my dad had mentioned that theres some sort of spray glue that would be able to glue the mesh an the eggcrate together so that it doesnt touh the water. I just dont know if this stuff is reef safe or not