Eric's 125 build.

[FinalPhaze987]

Do you use the cone shaped strainer or the flat life guard ones? I found the flat ones to clog rather quickly and changed mine out.

 

[gmdcdvm]

I’m a little late to this but glad the box fish is alive. I hear stories of them nuking a tank when stressed. Sounds like getting stuck in a drain would do this. Doesn’t look like anything bad happened. I wanted to get a pair for my tank but I worry about them releasing toxins. Any thoughts?

 

[Srt4eric]

I’m a little late to this but glad the box fish is alive. I hear stories of them nuking a tank when stressed. Sounds like getting stuck in a drain would do this. Doesn’t look like anything bad happened. I wanted to get a pair for my tank but I worry about them releasing toxins. Any thoughts?

If you want to have any snails dont get one.

 

[Srt4eric]

Do you use the cone shaped strainer or the flat life guard ones? I found the flat ones to clog rather quickly and changed mine out.

I have a cone shaped strainer. If I had a flat one it would of completely clogged months ago

 

[RandyC]

I have a cone shaped strainer. If I had a flat one it would of completely clogged months ago

Just curious as to why you use a strainer for your main drain pipe. Are snails and fish getting through you weir? Even if they did get through and completely clog your main drain, isn't that what's the secondary and tertiary drains are for until you can open and clear out the main drain? And wouldn't all the gunk going down the down be filtered out by your sump mechanical filtration (if you have it) anyway? I guess I don't see the benefit and the extra maintenance that strainer brings.

 

[Srt4eric]

Just curious as to why you use a strainer for your main drain pipe. Are snails and fish getting through you weir? Even if they did get through and completely clog your main drain, isn't that what's the secondary and tertiary drains are for until you can open and clear out the main drain? And wouldn't all the gunk going down the down be filtered out by your sump mechanical filtration (if you have it) anyway? I guess I don't see the benefit and the extra maintenance that strainer brings.

It came with the tank and I never removed it when I set it up. I run 1.5" drains so I'm not worried about a snail clogging them.

 

[RandyC]

It came with the tank and I never removed it when I set it up. I run 1.5" drains so I'm not worried about a snail clogging them.

Yeah, I'd just remove the strainer....extra work for not much gain...no bueno.

 

[Srt4eric]

Yeah, I'd just remove the strainer....extra work for not much gain...no bueno.

And somehow I still have two wrasses in my sump right now...

 

[RandyC]

And somehow I still have two wrasses in my sump right now...

Strainer didn't even work...more reason to get rid of it. Need to make your weir width smaller it sounds like too.

 

[Coral reefer]

Careful talking about a guys weir size…

 

[Srt4eric]

Two top downs. First one is from February and the second one is today.

 

[Srt4eric]

Wish I could do top downs without the reflections on my lights...

 

[H2OPlayar]

Underwater shots do that for you...

 

[MarcosD]

Wish I could do top downs without the reflections on my lights...

Yeah same I hate it

 

[RandyC]

Wish I could do top downs without the reflections on my lights...

I just ordered this to give it a try.

Amazon.com

a.co

 

[derek_SR]

I just ordered this to give it a try.

Amazon.com

a.co

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I have one of those, mine has collected dust since getting the portal from Avast though.

 

[PizzaOven]

Wish I could do top downs without the reflections on my lights...

A polarizer should remove the reflection (like this one Amazon Link). Only drawback is you lose half of the light but I'm guessing it's not really a problem considering how we light our tanks...

 

[Darkxerox]

A polarizer should remove the reflection (like this one Amazon Link). Only drawback is you lose half of the light but I'm guessing it's not really a problem considering how we light our tanks...

I was watching one of Than's videos and he said sometimes we actually are in a situation where there isn't much light (in comparison to daylight outside) and you can often benefit from using night settings on your camera depending on how blue you keep things. This works for corals of course but not fish.

 

[PizzaOven]

I was watching one of Than's videos and he said sometimes we actually are in a situation where there isn't much light (in comparison to daylight outside) and you can often benefit from using night settings on your camera depending on how blue you keep things. This works for corals of course but not fish.

Interesting... I'll have to play with the night setting on my phone. Maybe it will improve my sub-par reef photography.

 

[Darkxerox]

Yeah it definitely helps when I use night sight when taking actinic photos with an orange lens. Full spectrum the regular settings seem to work well.