madjoe
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Oh good clams r cool
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Oh good clams r cool
anarchy
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Yeah I've been liking it so far
anarchy
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I moved it and fw dipped it for 5 min and blew it out and now everything is good
anarchy
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Okay so I'm planning out my upgrade. I'll be buying up equipment over the next year probably before I actually buy the new tank. Have to take this upgrade slow for my wallets sake. Here's what I'm planning please chime in with any opinions
Tank- 180 gallon
Return- jebao dc12000
Circ pumps- 2 jebao rw20 2 rw15
Heater- won brothers 1500w titanium
Sump- as of now 55 gallon(hoping to upgrade sumps) adding 2 4" micron socks
Skimmer- RO Regal 170sss
Lighting- 3 250w halides and 2 Hamilton Aruba sun t5 retro with led 2x54
Substrate- 200 lbs special grade
Reactors- calcium reactor and brs dual reactor
Some of these things I already have. The items pictured are what I need to buy. How does this sound?
Tank- 180 gallon
Return- jebao dc12000
Circ pumps- 2 jebao rw20 2 rw15
Heater- won brothers 1500w titanium
Sump- as of now 55 gallon(hoping to upgrade sumps) adding 2 4" micron socks
Skimmer- RO Regal 170sss
Lighting- 3 250w halides and 2 Hamilton Aruba sun t5 retro with led 2x54
Substrate- 200 lbs special grade
Reactors- calcium reactor and brs dual reactor
Some of these things I already have. The items pictured are what I need to buy. How does this sound?
anarchy
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It'll be a 180
The reefer
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Looks good. But I wouldn't trust just 1 heater. I've always been a fan of redundancy. Just devide it in to 2 heaters. It will b a fail safe. U know if one stays on for some reason it won't cook ur tank. Also if one doesn't turn on ull still have the other one helping keep the temp up.
Also if u can, I would do a custom sump. Anthony at nanoseacreations does good work. I bought my sump from him. Also advance acrylics is good also. I've seen some work and it's excellent. Could be a couple weeks before u get the sump but that should be fine since it's gonna be a slow build.
Also if u can, I would do a custom sump. Anthony at nanoseacreations does good work. I bought my sump from him. Also advance acrylics is good also. I've seen some work and it's excellent. Could be a couple weeks before u get the sump but that should be fine since it's gonna be a slow build.
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anarchy
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Yeah on another forum brought that up. Didn't think about it for some reason. I run 2 on my current tank
tinman
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anarchy
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I've got a 300 and 250 on my tank now and on cold nights I feel like it takes too long to heat the tankthats why i asked too .. .
i have two 100 watt heaters for a 50 gallon and its fine
Darienreefs7
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I'm gonna use 2 300 watt heaters on my 190. Only have 1 300 on the 125 and it worked perfecty.
Sawdonkey
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I'd also think twice about the filter sock choice. I use two 7-inchers and I don't run a ton of water through my sump. My socks clog up after about 4 days or so. I'd prefer if they lasted a week before overflowing. They're just a pain in the ass to change and I'd hate to do it every other day.
anarchy
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I havnt been running any and I hate the build up in the sump
Sawdonkey
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Don't get me wrong, I like running socks, I just don't like to change them. I think if you go with the four inches, you'll have to change the pretty often.
anarchy
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That's why I stopped running the 7" lol I hate changing them
rockhead
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anarchy
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I'll probably do 2 500w or a little bigger