OK, so here's the latest....
Got my Urchin Pro PS on Tuesday, Bought some Makeman sand, rinsed until damn near clear, Bought some live rock at Coral Culture yesterday, put some water in the tank and it's a go.
Had to Dremel about a half inch out of the eurobrace for the PS to fit in the sump
Hose on the return for ease of maintenance and reduce vibrations/noise
Overflow itself, a bit noisy at first, due to the amount of fall the water took, but reduced it significantly by adjusting the valve above the mag 5. Hopefully not putting too much stress on the pump itself.
Now to the cool part, so I go to Coral Culture and Iwase tells me that the rock is not really live rock, but nonetheless, it was full of tubes and good color, cheap, etc. so I bought eight pieces, thinking if anything else, I'd seed it. I get home and put one in a steyrofoam box, gave it a shake to see what came off of it and voila !
Copepods, amphipods, micro stars, micro snails, all kinds of "live" stuff. So as far as I'm concerned, the rock he sells is live rock, minus coraline but literally every piece of rock had 40-80 mini-organisms in it, urchins and sponges etc.
Now, I'll get some more "live" rock this weekend, start aquascaping a bit, wait some, put in a starter cleanup crew, wait some, complete the cleanup crew, install the T-5's, put in a blue damsel, wait some, then start putting in some frags.
Oh, yeah, when I got the rock at coral culture, he gave me as much saltwater as I could carry (60L), and even threw in a pulsating xenia... but he told me to keep it hush hush, and there I go putting it up on a message board, he he.
Got my Urchin Pro PS on Tuesday, Bought some Makeman sand, rinsed until damn near clear, Bought some live rock at Coral Culture yesterday, put some water in the tank and it's a go.
Had to Dremel about a half inch out of the eurobrace for the PS to fit in the sump
Hose on the return for ease of maintenance and reduce vibrations/noise
Overflow itself, a bit noisy at first, due to the amount of fall the water took, but reduced it significantly by adjusting the valve above the mag 5. Hopefully not putting too much stress on the pump itself.
Now to the cool part, so I go to Coral Culture and Iwase tells me that the rock is not really live rock, but nonetheless, it was full of tubes and good color, cheap, etc. so I bought eight pieces, thinking if anything else, I'd seed it. I get home and put one in a steyrofoam box, gave it a shake to see what came off of it and voila !
Copepods, amphipods, micro stars, micro snails, all kinds of "live" stuff. So as far as I'm concerned, the rock he sells is live rock, minus coraline but literally every piece of rock had 40-80 mini-organisms in it, urchins and sponges etc.
Now, I'll get some more "live" rock this weekend, start aquascaping a bit, wait some, put in a starter cleanup crew, wait some, complete the cleanup crew, install the T-5's, put in a blue damsel, wait some, then start putting in some frags.
Oh, yeah, when I got the rock at coral culture, he gave me as much saltwater as I could carry (60L), and even threw in a pulsating xenia... but he told me to keep it hush hush, and there I go putting it up on a message board, he he.
