Splurge! If you were given $1,000 to spend on reef equipment, what item(s) would you put it toward?

If you were given $1,000 to spend on reef equipment, what item(s) would you put it toward?

  • lights

    Votes: 154 28.1%
  • return pump

    Votes: 12 2.2%
  • flow pump

    Votes: 15 2.7%
  • controller

    Votes: 110 20.0%
  • auto tester

    Votes: 127 23.1%
  • skimmer

    Votes: 23 4.2%
  • reactor

    Votes: 14 2.6%
  • other

    Votes: 94 17.1%

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fishface NJ

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Love my old Tek Lights...it's a T5 for you young ones LOL. It's 48" and my tank is 36". I have had them this way for 5 years. I'd like to get the ATI non-dimmable 36" T5 or better yet a 48" tank :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:
 

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$1,000 is nothing in this hobby. I just blew through $600 on supplies for the next 3-4 months.
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If I were given $1,000 towards anything I wanted in aquariums, that would be enough for me to start my new Saltwater Nano Aquarium. I would go for a 29 gal tank with live rock & live sand and I would make it a fish only tank to start. I would also get an RODI system, a HOB skimmer, a filter and some of the essentials needed for monitoring my water parameters.
 

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I'm pretty happy with my equipment. I'd probably replace my Bubble Magnus Curve 7 with a Reef Octo 150 Recirculating External skimmer and add a second Versa Dosing pump. With the rest, I'd buy live rock and corals.

The Bubble Magnus is just to hard to set and overflows easily. I had an old NWS150 Recirculating skimmer that was bulletproof. After over 20 years its pump finally died. That's when I found out the OTP pump was obsolete. I have a Ecotech Versa Dosing pump that I use for All for Reef. I really like that pump. It is small, accurate, doses a little or a lot, and is quiet. I'd dose a little extra calcium, magnesium, and iodine with a second one to make up what the AFR doesn't or maybe dose vinegar automatically. Beyond that, I can't think of anything that would make the tank run better than more live rock and corals!
 

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Other - Doser

have always struggled with manually dosing but of course by the time I've paid off lights, sump, skimmer, pump...dosers always been that last piece of item thats always past budget :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
 

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I said wavemaker mainly cause my Tunze 6040 gave up the ghost. But if I’m allow to make a split on the money I’d add lighting and a larger refugium .
 

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I would buy the $1000 designer acro and watch it brown out and then say why didn't I buy $1000 lights to make my $5 cheap acro look like $1000 bucks.
 

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Definitely will spend it on a nice big mixing station to make life easier for me all automated with the same return pump as my tank for backup, all hard plumbing also
 

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Splurge! If you were given $1,000 to spend on reef equipment, what item(s) would you put it toward?

The holidays are over and we’ll have to wait until next year for more presents, but what if we could still dream a little longer…what if you could spend $1,000 on reefing equipment? What item(s) would you put the money toward? Would it be a controller, lights, pumps, reactor, skimmer, testing machine, or something else? Let’s dream a little and discuss what a $1,000 splurge would be – please join us in the discussion thread!

BTW, while we aren’t currently giving away $1,000, R2R is hosting a giveaway for a Deltec Skimmer so please following this link to enter! Good luck!!!

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Something to end the Dino rampage going on in my tank.... I accidently crashed my reef and im trying to win it back. I would probably spend all $1k on new live rock from either the ocean or a LFS.

I've lost a lot of coral. Nems, Clams, Fish are all fine though :)
 

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Pretty happy with my current equipment. But think I need a couple of back up pumps on hand. Have an emergency contingency plan, but just dropping in a new one would be ideal.
 

Mastering the art of locking and unlocking water pathways: What type of valves do you have on your aquarium plumbing?

  • Ball valves.

    Votes: 68 52.3%
  • Gate valves.

    Votes: 67 51.5%
  • Check valves.

    Votes: 33 25.4%
  • None.

    Votes: 29 22.3%
  • Other.

    Votes: 9 6.9%
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