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06/04/2015, 03:23 PM
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Location: Vernon Hills
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What piece of equipment would you not purchase again?
For me I would not buy a biopellet reactor or start biopellets again. Corals lost color and had a cyano outbreak.
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06/04/2015, 03:48 PM
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Cheap Chinese LED for our refugium...
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Peter TankStop - Fish and Coral 470G Display - Build Thread Current Tank Info: Retired - 470 Gallon Mixed Reef (120x29x31") |
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06/04/2015, 04:05 PM
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uv sterilizer. never saw one iota of difference.
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06/04/2015, 04:09 PM
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Location: Austin, TX
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Stopped getting skimmers back in the 90s. (I would use UV sterilizers though.)
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"Our crystal clear aquaria come nowhere close to the nutrient loads that swirl around natural reefs" Charles Delbeek |
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06/04/2015, 04:11 PM
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ozonizer
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06/04/2015, 04:19 PM
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Location: Cali
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My entire setup.
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06/04/2015, 04:21 PM
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Location: Beaufort, SC
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Aqua c remora
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06/04/2015, 05:18 PM
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Mine - in-tank UV, waste of money. |
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06/04/2015, 05:25 PM
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Location: Gonzales LA
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I'd say a pre built refugium. Next time I build a setup I will build my own. You can customize dimensions for what you need instead of what they have. |
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06/04/2015, 05:32 PM
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Aquaria Engineering
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Elkland, PA
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Hanna Phosphate checker...
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25g cube, split 10g sump with refugium, Jebao RW4, reefbreeder value Livestock adds: Osc Clowns, Royal Gramma, Pygmy Cherub Angel, Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, Serpent Brittle Star Current Tank Info: 25 gallon cube |
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06/04/2015, 05:35 PM
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^^^
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06/04/2015, 05:41 PM
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06/04/2015, 05:48 PM
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Premade wet dry sump with bioballs.
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06/04/2015, 06:11 PM
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Everyone says what they wouldn't get again but why?
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06/04/2015, 06:12 PM
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Hmm. Fun list.
Seaclone Skimmer About 7 bizillion (yeah, it's a real word) different supplements Anything starting with the word 'ultra'. Test Strips
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I want to burn twice as bright and half as long. Oh, and a full tank crash is just an excuse for a new build. Current Tank Info: 125 Rimless Leemar, Apex, Trigger 30 Elite Sump, Vertex 180i Skimmer, 2 X Gen4 Radion XR30W, BM Doser, 2xMP40WES, 2xTunze 6095, Sicce Syncra 4.0. |
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06/04/2015, 06:20 PM
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06/04/2015, 07:36 PM
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Bio balls, I bought almost everyone in the world, they were a pain in my big round 455 !
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06/04/2015, 08:10 PM
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220 gallon DT and 90 gallon sump, all DC powered, APEX gold with DOS, feeder, and a few extra modules, Avast Marine swabbie on Skimz Monster 258, 6 Rapid LED Onyx fixtures, BRS dosers, 4 Jaebo RW-15. Current Tank Info: 220 Gallon, 29 Gallon, 2-20L QT, and a 20 gallon tall octogon tank waiting to be setup for a seahorse tank. |
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06/04/2015, 08:33 PM
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Location: Phoenix, Az
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mars led lights, no way to program them
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I can resist anything but temptation Current Tank Info: 56gl. column tank, around 45lbs of rock, 2 1/2" sand, lights Oceanrvive 120w LED's, Maxi-jet 900, Eshopps PF800 overflow box, Eshopps R-100 refugium, skimmer Eshopps s120 |
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06/04/2015, 10:46 PM
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Location: Peoria, AZ
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CPR small Aquafuge with skimmer.
Pump failed within three months and I have had to replace seal that were not water tight. CPR had no inclination to help with the pump (someone else makes them) and had no care in the world about the joint leaking. In fact they asked me to call them back once I fixed mine to tell them how I did it. Wondering if they are still by the phone waiting...
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06/04/2015, 10:52 PM
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kalk reactor with stirrer. It's enough to toss kalk into the topoff barrel and stir it once. I threw it away, much as it cost. I couldn't in good conscience palm that object off onto another reefer.
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Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%. |
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06/05/2015, 05:25 AM
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Location: Northern Virginia
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Bio-pellets. Never could get them to tumble no matter how big a pump I would put on the reactor.
Corallife skimmer... just awful IMO. Like Sk8r, I threw this in the dump, no way I could have pawned this off on someone and slept good at night.
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Jim Current Tank Info: SCA 150G, 5 inch sand bed, 2 Tunze 6095s, ReefBreeders v2+ 50" with 2 all Blue Reefbrites, and Continuous Water Change System |
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06/05/2015, 05:35 AM
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In Memoriam
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: The smallest county in Illinois
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Anything cheap:
- SeaClone skimmer (great to start learning with, but once you decide you hate the noise and want something that pulls more junk out, you grow out of it) - DIRT CHEAP LIGHTING DEALS. Just no, ugh. They come in many flavors but they all end up bitter at some point. - "$39.99 with free shipping" skimmers. I literally snorted as I typed that out, because, yes, once.... - Big-box clearance powerheads. I'd say they blow, but they didn't, so that was kind of inherently the problem. And I'll probably never own another UV sterilizer again. Interesting story of how you "have to get this to fix your problem" when there are now much better, easier ways to take care of many of the issues it fixed. - |
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06/05/2015, 06:07 AM
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Location: Riverbank CA
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Good thing none of my equipment is on these lists yet...Lol
This should be a great thread for beginners like myself who have a hard time figuring out what and what not to buy for their first build. Thanks guys!! Keep em coming!! Great thread ZPak. |
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06/05/2015, 06:10 AM
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Location: Mesa AZ
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Any kind of 'reef supplement', 'special bacteria', etc etc
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125g Mixed Reef 5/26/2015; 350 Butterfly Dominated FOWLR 11/26/2015 - 11/17/20217 & 07/31/18 to ??? ; 100g Mixed Reef 11/16/2013 to 06/16/2017 Current Tank Info: Too small |
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