We're still using Tunze Turbelle. Great pumps!! To bad they are not making spare parts anymore(the motor will never give up but the plastic parts will unfortunately).
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We're still using Tunze Turbelle. Great pumps!! To bad they are not making spare parts anymore(the motor will never give up but the plastic parts will unfortunately).
Not SPS dominant but Two large Monti Caps, Red Planet Acro, Cats Paw and a large birds nest. Tap water treated with Start Right. Black Box LED's.How many of you are keeping an sps dominant tank with acros and an algae free display with tap water? Just wondering? I know they grow under the old Metal Halide lights, I just can't afford the extra electricity itll take to keep the house and the tank cool. It's already in the mid 90s here until November and my HVAC is running wide open.
Too funny, I've often thought of saving up for my Limewood driven skimmer back in about 1992! The new tech has definitely improved there!
I'm trying to make a go of the LED's this time around, really due to heat in S. TX, but not all that happy with them so far. IMO MH are SO much easier.
JDA what CA RX?
My last system, which was fantastic, I ran MH, some T5 and VHO, giant skimmer, and super concentrated Kalkwasser on a constant drip 24/7 just slightly below evaporation rate. Worked perfectly.
Not SPS dominant but Two large Monti Caps, Red Planet Acro, Cats Paw and a large birds nest. Tap water treated with Start Right. Black Box LED's.
Fantastic Ed, thank you!!! So was there a piece of soft tubing inside the pumps? The tubing used was ridged and only connect to the in / out ports on outside of the pump. I will say the pump would easily go 2 years between pumping kalk but the tubing would eventually clog.
Okay, so I looked and those I see the paristaltic part, the Reef Filler did not have this. It had a cycling up and down type noise it made, not like a paristaltic pump
Do you mean ASM? I just replaced mine with a Reef Octopus last fall, but still have it operating on a 120 gallon FOWLR, the Odell tank I mention earlier in this thread.Who still uses GSM Skimmers?
Yes, it was supposed to be "G3 ASM" skimmer!Do you mean ASM? I just replaced mine with a Reef Octopus last fall, but still have it operating on a 120 gallon FOWLR, the Odell tank I mention earlier in this thread.
Best tank I had till this day was a used 120gal oceanic with the glass brace in the middle. I was a broke college student and everything was DIY and budget equipment. When I went to meet up with the seller it was sitting in the back of a liquor store in Houston collecting dust. There’s no telling how old it was by then. For some reason everything I put in that tank thrived. Fish and softies no QT for either. It’s not that I don't think QT is a great idea I was just so ignorant about all that back then and somehow it all still worked. Unfortunately when I was overseas the structural integrity became compromised and my family had to take it down.I do use RODI and a refractometer, but I still use light timers instead of a controller, buckets for top-off (no ATO), calcium reactor from 1992, large skimmer, 3" sand bed, real pacific live rock, metal halides, Ranco & Jagr heaters and Instant Ocean salt.
One of my tanks is an old Oceanic from 1992 with the large glass center brace.
In all honesty, I would have upgraded to any newer stuff if I thought that it was better. I could get behind a more-foolproof ATO, but I have no need for a controller, LEDs or any other new gadgetry.
How did anybody leave off a Limewood driven skimmer... which worked pretty well for what they were.
some of the best tanks I saw in the early 80's had trickle filters ,bio balls,dead coral skeletons as the reef base and caulerpa IN the display tank as a means of nitrate control...where did we go wrong ? lolhere’s my 75 build. next build I’m going UGF.
Probably it started with the banning of the biofilter ( blamed to produce a safely stored nitrogen reserve) which forced reefers to passive nutrient management and a low, not controllable carrying capacity. The following "live rock" hype, a big business, changed nothing.some of the best tanks I saw in the early 80's had trickle filters ,bio balls,dead coral skeletons as the reef base and caulerpa IN the display tank as a means of nitrate control...where did we go wrong ? lol