Anybody ever run an Eclipse system?

[porpoiseaquatics]

Just wondering if anybody has ever run one of the Marineland Eclipse systems as a reef? I am curious to how well it works. Any overall issues that anybody has had.

 

[ichthyoid]

I have an Eclipse all in one hood that I have been running on a 10 gal. It worked ok. I upgraded the lighting. The biowheel I did not use, so it's like new. I will be changing out to an LED hood soon.

 

[porpoiseaquatics]

What did you run in place of the biowheel?

 

[texhorns98]

I have a 37 gallon I run with an Eclipse hood. There's a PC retrofit out there somewhere, but I haven't gotten it. Right now I just have LR, a couple of clowns and some softies. The light in there now is having a hard time keeping palys open, so I can't imagine it will do much more than shrooms. I put my heater where the carbon cartridge goes, and I have LR rubble where the bio wheel would normally go.

 

[porpoiseaquatics]

The one I'm looking at is a 37 which apparently they don't make any more. It's got a T5 hood over it instead of PC's.

 

[texhorns98]

I'm probably going to ditch the hood and just mount a small T5 fixture over it with a couple small power heads. If the one you're looking at has T5s, I'd say you're OK.

 

[ichthyoid]

porpoiseaquatics;621794 wrote: What did you run in place of the biowheel?

It has fuge plumbed in with chaeto in it, but most of the filtration is via carbon dosing + skimming.

 

[gnashty]

I have a 25 gal eclipse, I switched out the PC to LED...the rest is stock. Its a QT but has recently been homing some fish and coral while I sort out the 180

 

[porpoiseaquatics]

So, it sounds like if I can get it cheap enough, it would be usable.

 

[jennm]

Gary's Eclipse used to be mine. I ran it ~10 years ago with a PC retrofit which was the technology of the time. I kept seahorses in it with some softies and macros.

You don't need a biowheel at all (needs nothing to 'replace'... if you have live rock).

Jenn