120 gallon upgrade and build thread :)

[StephLionfish]

Looks nice. What you could do instead of a Fuge, is put an ATS (Algae Turf Scrubber ) under the tank. People have claimed that they love them, and have no algae in their DT, because it's all growing on the ATS. I would still run the skimmer with the ATS, and have some sort of compartment in the sump for filter pads to catch the junk floating around.
Sorry, I forgot all about the ATS's. There's a thread on them somewhere on RC.... I'll try to find it for you.

 

[StephLionfish]

Here you go.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1977420

 

[scubba.steve]

Here you go.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1977420

Thanks for the link youve been trying to push me into building a ats for awhile now lol.... one day maybe ... But im gonna do a fuge first.

 

[StephLionfish]

Have I? Oh.. pretty clear my memory isn't that great, lol. Honestly... I think you'd be happier with an ATS, and you could let pods and such populate below the screen(s), but it whatever you wanna do.

 

[EvilMel]

I added a diamond watchman goby a few days ago Mel hes doing an awesome job at stirring my sand up.. lol but making my tank hazy... Any ideas as to removing this stuff? I was thinking a low flow hob overflow ran into a 10g refugium with a filter sock in first chamber. Ive already predrilled my stand for running a small refugium in it

I would just have your drain line going into some kind of filter sock. Seems like the easiest option...rubber banding a filter sock on the end of a tube.

I had a friend with an ATS and he hated it. hah hah. I'm sure some people love them but what I saw...sucked. It's another of the fads, in my opinion.

 

[StephLionfish]

I would just have your drain line going into some kind of filter sock. Seems like the easiest option...rubber banding a filter sock on the end of a tube.

I had a friend with an ATS and he hated it. hah hah. I'm sure some people love them but what I saw...sucked. It's another of the fads, in my opinion.

Why did he hate it? How did he have it set up?

 

[EvilMel]

It wasn't effective. I can't describe the exact set up because I don't remember but it was something about the water coming down via a spray bar or something. It doesn't matter though. He had done a ton of research about it prior to setting it up.

The thing is: these fads come and go (e.g. two 4h light cycles to bring out the color of corals). Some people will have great success with them and some won't. It's not a big deal. Often what works for one person doesn't for another because there's a million ways to run a reef tank and a bunch of them are correct...even if they're completely different than the way you or I would run it.

 

[scubba.steve]

Well today was a sad day Havent seen my blue hippo all day was fixing to move all my aquascape to find her.. and i found her on the floor beside the aquarium.. My tank does have a glass canopy on top, but i had to cut and remove the back plastic strip to allow for my aqua c remoria, my return from my canister, and the heater power cord... So there is about a 3 inch open strip in the back corner... Figured my dartfish or watchman goby would have jumped.. never expected my hippo to carpet surf.

 

[TriMax]

Sorry. Fish on the carpet makes you feel like you should have done something better. Even if that is not true, you feel bad.

 

[EvilMel]

That's actually really surprising to me too. I haven't heard about Hippos jumping much.

 

[scubba.steve]

well i think i found what spooked my hippo....

Its crazy im just now noticing this in my tank

 

[EvilMel]

I like this very much.