or you can try what i did.... if you have a water heater and the room to mount it by the water heater, put a tap on your cold water pipe and put the drain on the relief line and your set...and it's permanent....no swapping from sink to R.O
not in my eyes its not, as long as you can keep the temp in a respectable range. The "rule of thumb" is 400w per 2' of tank, if you're planning on keeping SPS's.
Actually his was quite easy.He has a small tank and the Bak Pak in sump model skimmer, so we just drilled a hole just big enough to get a rigid airline 90 through the back of the skimmer and sealed it with pvc glue right above the bottom of the collection cup where there is no opposing water...
One of my friends had that same problem, with the algae and it started to get a lot better when we turned off his reactor.
First he stopped using the Carib Sea media and went to the Knop Koralith and the algae came back again. Then we slowed down his bubble rate to as slow as possible but...
what are the dimensions on the 37g you are getting? Are they something like 24x18x20? Just asking because that is the tank i have.
Ohh and just to answer the question you posted i have been having a purple tang and a gold stripe maroon in there for about 3&1/2 years with no problems
I have seen some fairly big Naso's come in from shipments to my LFS, but no larger than about 12" or so. But on the other hand I do know a guy with a 600g that has 2 Blue Spot Naso's that have grown from about 4" when he got them 4 or 5 years ago to at least 14" now. And they eat like pigs!! At...