9-5-07
I went to Aquatica again today for a bit. Todd is building me a custom sump/refugium. I hope to get it in about 4 weeks or so. Picked up a nice water heater and more sand. Now I just have to decide on what pump to get to shoot for 1,250 gph on a five foot raise. I've saw a movie last night about closed loop systems for increasing flow rate, very cool.
9-5-07
Todd from Aquatica said I will probably have a ruff time with my dual overflows on the side of my tank.... He said I could get a hold of Matt Nay on here. (LMAS) I need to talk to him about some other options involving drilling out holes for bulk heads on the side of my tank. Matt drop me a line when you can please. (He did, he's got the hook up)
9-8-07
May I ask for some advice on picking out a pump? I have heard that there maybe issues with to high of water temperature. So far I have two MH 250's, and that's allot of heat. ( I plan on getting Actinic lights in the next month or so) They will be in an enclosed canopy, with dual 4.5'' fans as intakes on the right, and the sames for exhaust on the left. I can modify the size of the intakes and exhaust later on down the road if need be. After doing allot of shopping for external and internal pumps I can see there is a huge price difference between the two. May I ask what other members have had success with in the past for a 125 gallon tank, shooting for 1,250 GPH on a 5 foot raise to achieve around 10 cycles per hour.
http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~ ... P2280.html
http://www.bestnest.com/bestnest/RTProd ... =PON-02728
http://www.championlighting.com/product ... ctid=18058
I was seriously considering Bobby's Mag 18 internal pump. But I wasn't sure with the combo of my lights and an internal pump would create water temp issues. I just really want to avoid having an in line chiller expense later on down the road. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your advise.
This is all a ruff draft copy and paste. I will try to edit it some later tonight if I can. I have read where other members have had difficulty editing an old post. So if I can not I appologize for typos.
Thanks,
Corey Z.
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