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Be very careful with heaters and the ecoflow devices. I've almost killed my tank 3 times doing that. Twice last week. The issue is the ecoflows have a max output restriction. If you shoot past it, the entire AC output turns off and doesn't reactivate until you manually turn it back on. What...

Honestly that's been on my mind the whole time. I just don't think I can pull off how much it'd cost. I also was considering getting the floor supports added while the floor could be cut open, but I don't think I can do it in time. Tbh the other thought once I got it empty has been "do I...

Thanks all. I'm set. I've got the holding trough setup with the first light over it and skimmer and gyre and a billion heaters while I get it to temperature. In getting this far, I've realized the huge PITA is not going to be moving the tank, it's going to be tearing things down and getting...

Plan of record is drain everything, pull fish and rocks, put all into a trough or containers. Add bubbler and heaters. Drain sump. At that point I'll see how heavy it is and if I can get the dollies under while holding it steady with suction cups. If not, I'll pull the sump out and see if I...

Do you think building an extra support frame is overkill? I think it is, but I'd also be pretty pissed if I cause a red sea to degrade. Though if I do something so bad that the stand starts flexing, I'm probably going to end up with an aquarium on the floor anyway as it topples over?

I am getting my flooring replaced. I need to move my aquarium (thread with other details). I am trying to figure out how to minimize the hassle of this. My plan was move everything into a temporary holding tank in my garage, move the aquarium into the garage, move everything back into the...

A360XE? 19v seems tricky. It's not what I had in mind, but there's 180w, laptop, power supplies on amazon for ~$35. At a minimum you'd have half as many. If you're running at < 100% you could put more on them, but that seems like it's getting into gray area. This is similar to what I use and...

What's the wattage of the kessil lights? I bought some beefier meanwell power supplies for my tanks and got rid of a ton of bricks. They're available on Amazon, and meanwell is what kessil uses for the ap9x lights. I'd imagine they'd have some that could get rid of at least a couple of those at...

I definitely would have put it in the lid. So another good point :).

This would be a secondary sump, primarily used for ease of maintenance and increased scale (eg dosing and having a giant kalk/2-part reservoir) or equipment I'd prefer not to have in the house (eg if I continue using ozone). The main equipment (skimmer, fuge, heaters) would still be in the sump...

Thanks for the link! That's almost exactly the same setup I would have, though I was telling myself I'd enclose it in at least some insulation. Ignoring that I'd never actually do that and instead I'd buy a bunch of heaters....

I've been debating more what I can do to give me more space inside my house and aquarium, and make maintenance easier. I've gone back and forth on the idea of having a sump outside my house, and wanted some folks thoughts. Possibly including @Thales because I heard you have some sort of outside...

Crazy how from the picture I can smell this and feel a hot air blast. These bullet heaters were the only heat in the freezing cold barns in IL when I was a kid

Do you have a hammer that might be missing a head? Baby hammer is :). Hammer that expelled its head is :| .

I actually have zero bubble algae outside of what gets into birds nest. The general situation will be it gets a bit on the base, or onto a piece of dead skeleton and then starts growing and I have to fight to get it off. It's in heavy flow. Maybe there I answered my own question, just break...

Random question: how does anyone avoid a birds nest coral not being infested with bubble algae? I don't know if I just have really bad luck, or somehow I keep starting out in a bad state, but every single birds nest I have ends up getting bubble algae in it's center and then over time becomes a...

A couple quick shots from today. Still having really good (for me) growth on my SPS. I'm trying to get all these acros to fully on colony status and then I'll start fragging and then move frags to my display. My montis are also growing like crazy and very little signs of nudis. I'm...

Snowflake / black ice are what I've been searching for, but I have one arriving soon. I also like picasso / da vincis. Majorly personal preference though. My preference is ones that have orange, black, white, and very clearly separate bars. I'm not a fan of the all white / bullet hole / ...

I wouldn't be concerned about the weight on the bars, zero percent chance this causes them to fail. I would worry about it being straight if you were doing something like only hanging them from one side, since you'd need to account for a slight flex. What's the setup you're looking to have...

Easiest active solution: take rocks out and remove anemones from rocks (gentle, standard ways, guides online), remove fish. Put fish into a different tank. Put anemones in a different tank; if needed put them in a breeder box to keep them in a controlled spot. Tear down this tank. Nuke rocks...