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Assuming it’s glass?

How big is she? Stand alone or gonna plumb it in?

Yummy acanthos!

I think this would be my only path to a reefing future. Out of my budget for the foreseeable future

Service guy here. Welcome!

I still have it in a client tank

This one should be marked dead. @patchin isn’t likely coming back and by no means does he have this coral. Unfortunately I can’t do this

You’re days are numbered monti cap!

I would contact who you suspect may have been the source. Ideally they will make a note of it and maybe even share on their tank journal.

Gross!

Potential risk outweighs potential benefits imo

Guess it’s a no on. The free lights then?

What should really be done in this case is fix the obvious issue. A 1/2” drain is too small to be very useful or reliable. This seems like an obvious don’t use that box and add an external one case to me. Or a different tank. Or at least use all three holes for drains.

I wouldn’t worry about the ca, I would let the alk come down to at least 9 tho

It is not super loud since it’s the smallest possible flow you can get going down it. No valve on the trickle

Pretty much. I always leave the trickle drain above water line in sump. Allows the air in the pipe to move freely rather than getting trapped and burped out the bottom

I would not use a ball valve. Gate valve is way easier to dial in. I always look at the second drain as and emergency, but in reality I send as little water as possible through that drain. You can get the siphon just right sometimes where the water level stays above that pipe and below the...

How are you sure what the design was? Could be 2 returns and one big drain

are you going to use a gate valve to make it quiet? If so you want the bigger drain as the emergency. Siphon make it handle more flow, so the small one can ideally handle the flow and if it clogs you have a much bigger one that can handle it gravity style. Not sure why you wouldn’t do it that...

Usually people use the small drain as a full siphon with gate valve and the larger as a backup.