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You want some media to kickstart you cycle? Or you gonna just go the “patient” route?

Search for forumfit on Amazon or Home Depot. They have furniture grade PVC pipes and fittings for every color of the rainbow and more.

I’ve never done it, but I’d probably try to find an exterior weatherproof junction box. Then have the lines run to whatever setup you have (e.g., shed, containers, plastic toy box whatever) for the water/chemicals/electronics). https://a.co/d/4fs6dci

You’d be surprised what I use. I run Apexes and also have Ranco controllers and run redundant heaters (some systems with 3) so I actually use some really inexpensive heaters. I used to use more expensive heaters, but I had them fail more often than I’d like. Surprisingly, I haven’t had a single...

This one is pretty quiet. On the bigger side though. https://a.co/d/34yUcuZ

Yeah, I had three of those heaters running once, two of them zapped me when I stuck my hand in the water. Chucked them all.

Some people call the first one as “Needle in the Haystack.”

USB/Battery powered air pump and heater will be your bucket’s friend! KEDSUM Battery Aquarium Air Pump, USB Rechargeable Fish Aerator Pump with Accessories for 0-60 Gallons, Portable Aquarium Bubbler Pump for Fish Tank, Outdoor-Fishing, Power Outages and Emergency https://a.co/d/7HdeX2l...

Corals’ ability to recover never ceases to amaze me. Here’s a BattleCorals Backdraft the Movie Table Acro. This one’s been through falling under rock and me not noticing for days, then it recovered, then it went through my bacterial infection phase twice, and then here we are. Red on this piece...

Tubing get hard and clogs easily. Make sure to grease up with something like Molykote 111. I find that the tubing you can buy from Ecotech for the rollers doesn’t last a terribly long time. 7-8 months at the most, but I change them every 6 months or so. Haven’t yet tried sourcing my own tubing yet.

If you’re willing to deal with the maintenance of cleaning up the salt spray and changing the filter, go for it. But also keep in mind that the bubbles will go everywhere in your AIO chambers unless it forced in a direction. So that amount of bubbles will pop everywhere. One other side effect...

Just to experiment

I can promise you a Tunze 9004 in a 65 gallon tank is not sufficent for a 65 gallon tank. It’s a 4W pump. It’s probably good enough to surface skim a light bio-load in a tank that size, but in no way enough to provide a great amount of gas exchange in a tank that size to use in conjugation with...

Hygger 18W Gyre - just needed some extra flow in frag tank and got something on the cheap. Got this for $63. Moves water pretty well at 100%. Running it at 50% random at the moment. Let’s see if it lasts. @ 100% hygger Aquarium Wave Maker, Adjustable Cross Flow Pump with LED Display...

Yes. Use this to grease peristaltic tubing and rollers as well.

You can install the Play store app after installing some extra libraries. Google search “installing Google Play on fire tablet”

I think watching paint dry is faster than watching this thing grow. It’s still alive and encrusting slowly. Color is getting nice though.

Well, would you look at that. I have these things for a couple years and finally see a teeny, tiny streak of green……

Where does air that goes into the skimmer get pull from? The bottom or top of the CO2 reactor? And where does the air that gets sucked in from the skimmer to the CO2 reactor go in the CO2 reactor?

My comment was in respect to getting your CO2 media to be effective in your system. There’s no way that 9004 draws in enough air to make much of a dent to change pH in a 65 gallon tank if you have high CO2 in the surrounding air.