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Jaycen B.

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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">I would like some input on my system. Would someone be willing to come take a look, I think I have room for improvement. :)</span></span>
 
Post some pics and tell us about it. Collectively, we could give you more input than one or even two people stopping by.
 
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">I’ll get pictures soon as the lights come on.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">Equipment. 210g tank, 2 400w Hamilton reef star pendants w/ 14k DE bulbs not sure I like these much but they will have to do for now. 1 250w Icecap w/ electronic ballast and phoenix 14K I love this one. 16x16x36 sump w/ filter socks Reeflow dart for return, 20g tank w/ JBJ ato and gravity feed Precision Marine kalkreactor kr620. 4 K4s and a couple of 1s and nanos. 2x TLF 1 w/ carbon 1w/ phosphate removal resin. Aquaticlife Ph controller ORP monitor I planned on using this with a litermeter for the kalkreactor, any input on that idea. I think that is all.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">Fish </span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">Pair O clowns, 1 saddle back clown, 6line wrasse, yellow coris wrasse, yellow tail damsel, orange shoulder tang, yellow watchman w/ pistol that I see maybe once a month.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">Inverts </span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">Snails, hermit crabs, serpent star, coral banded shrimp and pistol shrimp.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">Corals</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">I’ll get pictures of the coral but know this, my acros do not like me very well partly because of red bugs and I am unable to do any thing about that at this time.:doh:</span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">150-175 lbs rock, 160 lbs sand.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">Any constructive thoughts would be great. </span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13px">Thanks JB.</span></span>
 
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Got this one but is a little older.
 
nice set up, like the bar stand. set up sounds pretty good but without looking "under the hood" its hard to tell. Visually i would change the blue background to black - may make your rock/coral "pop" under the lights
 
<span style="font-size: 13px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman">Ill get pics of the guts soon. NO way to change the background w/o taking down the tank it&#8217;s like 10 coats of latex paint.</span></span>
 
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FTS today.

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love this
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chiller
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soon to be QT sorry bad pic
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corals and clam
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this one not so good but it is recovering slowly
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parameters today Ph=8.32 hanna,kh=10,cal=460,no3=0,po4=0,api tests,mag=1300 redsea SG=1.025 refractometer temp=79.4F
 
Group the pumps and put them on the black overflow if you can so they blend in better with the background

And add more rock maybe some funky construction
 
Jaycen B.;509068 wrote: thanks

That's it? :)

I'll make you 1 if u want.
That is a really nice offer. I would pay you for one in a heartbeat if I didn't already have a nice stand.
I like the blue background. It adds alot of natural looking depth. Plumbing is really clean. You definitely took your time and have thought this thing through to accomplish what you want from it later down the road. I can't wait to see the updates on it
 
I can not build you one just like it because mine would not be one of a kind.:)

But I am sure we could do something similar!
 
You'll likely need a bigger/better skimmer. The Coralife Super Skimmers can be alright, but I feel they're overrated by about 1/2.

Oh, and more rock, maybe a tower or some arches.

Maybe some larger powerheads so you can have less of them. They kinda take away from the look, IMO.



And get rid of the damsel!
 
au01st;512856 wrote: You'll likely need a bigger/better skimmer. The Coralife Super Skimmers can be alright, but I feel they're overrated by about 1/2.

Oh, and more rock, maybe a tower or some arches.

Maybe some larger powerheads so you can have less of them. They kinda take away from the look, IMO.



And get rid of the damsel!

Thanks. The damsel is on his way out it's a but, thinks it's boss.
 
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