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This weekend I installed a closed loop on one of my 180’s, being powered by an Ampmaster 3000. With all the debate going on about plumbing, I would like opinions. I don’t have pictures yet, so I will describe it. The pump sits under the far right side of my tank. For the intake, I used a...

Now you have me thinking!

esmithiii, Yes, please email them to me.

This is going to be a heavily stocked SPS tank, so I want a good skimmer. I wonder if it might be best to cap the drilled hole and have another drilled on the side? This way, I could have the sump and refugium dump into the center chamber with the pump.

That was my concern, having all the flow going through the refugium. I figure about 2000gal per hour with the AMP3k.

I need some advise on the design of my sump / refugium. I have a 90gal tank with a 1.5 hole drilled on one of the ends. My original plan was to have the first chamber be the refugium, the next be the sump w/ skimmer then baffles with the water being returned by an AMP3k. The problem with this...

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Would this bulb need supplementation? Does it need an HQI ballast? I currently have 3 - 400w PFO standard ballasts running 6500k Iwasaki's. I'm seriously thinking about buying new HQI ballasts and running 20k Radium bulbs. I don't want to run 03 bulbs because of the extra energy cost. I...