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Definitely not over the top. It really finishes it and makes it look like a nice piece of furniture, very professional looking!

I made one side just short enough for the cord to fit behind.

I have a mix of some brs dry rock and some live rock. I'm considering getting some from subsea also when the tank is cycled. I really like the way phamily has his aquascaping in his big tank and I'd like to do something like it. Things are still moving along very slow, but steady. The sump has been designed and is just waiting for the skimmer to come so it can be finalized and built. That won't take long after the skimmer gets here. Things should really fall into place once the sump and plumbing is done. I did finish up the screen top today. Those were very easy and fast to make! It took a while to get them spray painted though. I painted just the frame black, then after they were dry put in the clear mesh.

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I read that too on fb, very interesting!

Left over from my tank build. I paid between $1.89 - $2.84 per pound. Asking $1.50 per pound.

That bta looks huge in there!

Wow, this looks great! Is that brain in the middle the one you got from me? Cool aquascaping.

I love LPS, and your tank looks great! I've been wondering how it was going.

There's a pin in the little box that's between the pump and the outlet, if that makes sense. You can change out the pins and each pin gives a different flow. Or you get the controller that's an extra cost, or use something like apex.

I'd go with the tunze as well. I just got one of mine out of the box and in the tank a few days ago. It's much smaller than I expected, silent, and very powerful! I'm really happy with the purchase.

Welcome to the club! You've certainly come to the right place.

Your tank looks really good and all of your corals look happy!

What a great question. I'm curious about the biothemes too as I plan my build.

In my experience peppermint shrimp will rip the mouth out of any coral getting fed once they figure out there's food in there.

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I had the same very disappointing experience. Spent a fortune on a bottle and after the first time I used it the top dried up completely. I was only able to dig glue out with the top off a couple of times before the glue dried out from the air in the bottle. I would think it's a design flaw, to have a non collapsible bottle that has more and more air the more glue you use, vs other super glues where the container squashes down as you use it and doesn't store air. I did get a bottle of the brs glue with similar bottle as the ecotech glue and it's worked out okay though, so idk. I'll certainly never waste money on the ecotech glue again.

Congrats! That's a gorgeous tank.

Great job on the stand!

Lol, oh okay. A mud refugium is totally different. You use an inch of mud vs a dsb with 4"or so of sand. Did you go visit subsea today? He has both. A dsb in a display tank and a mud refugium under his old 75. Do you happen to be reading The Reef Aquarium vol 3? It's an excellent read and discusses all of these things.

Wow, just from touching them? Did you have a cut or something? Yikes.

It sounds like you're really getting somewhere in your plans. I'm curious though what you think of doing a mud refugium instead of a dsb? Still having all the macros and such but without the dsb upkeep and concerns.

The SCA and Tunze look like a great size. I noticed the pumps are inside the skimmer. Do you find that the pump needs cleaning or maintenance often? I'd probably have to pull out the sump to get the whole skimmer out. Does anyone have experience with the Tunze skimmers? Sounds like the collection cup is not removable? How would you keep that clean and emptied? Thanks for the recommendations btw!

This is the thread I used to design my stand.

I'm working with Bio3 to build/design a sump and I don't think the skimmer I was thinking of using is going to be the best fit. It's the Precision Marine 150 Redline. The opening for the stand is 19" tall and the inside goes up to 24". The current skimmer is 21" tall. I don't know much at all about skimmer brands since I mostly run skimmerless. Anyone have a recommendation for a shorter skimmer and a small footprint would be a bonus. The tank is 90 gal.