Category Archives: Pumps and Sumps

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Simple Water Change Method

There have been requests to see us do a water change, so we filmed it here today for you all to see. Continue reading

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Electrical Trouble in the tank with Biopellets Pump

Trouble in the tank with Biopellets Continue reading

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MACNA 2015 New Products

We are at MACNA 2015 and here are the coolest products we have seen so far Continue reading

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New Protein Skimmer

We have very precious real estate in our sump like most reefers do and the Super Reef Octopus which worked great was just taking up too much room. Continue reading

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PVC Cementing our Sump Plumbing

Everyone is sending us very nice comments on our plumbing and how nice it looks. They keep asking how we made it look so nice and the answer is the glue or cement. So we are sharing what we used and how we did it. Continue reading

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How we glued it together

This is how we glued our PVC together for our tank Continue reading

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DIY How to Reef Tank pt 4

We have been working hard to get parts and equipment into the sump, this little video shows our latest and greatest things we added. The quarantine tank is almost ready to go, we still need a filter on it but otherwise we are ready to use it. This is all thanks to Synergy Reef and their work on it. Continue reading

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Presents Arrived

Yes sir the gifts have arrive, no really we paid for them. Synergy Reef made us a custom Sump and QT tank and even a few extra things. We are releasing a video by weeks end on them for they are very cool to show you. These guys do high end acrylic work, which is sweet. Continue reading

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Adding in the return lines

The sump is going to need return lines and so here they are.  We are planning on three lines, one main, one secondary and last one for emergency drainage only.   We plan to have these installed and unions on … Continue reading

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DIY Building our Reef Tank

We have a few cords to tie up literally and other than that all is good. So we will beable to start the water and plumbing leak tests. Automatic Tunze topoff was installed tonight, the Reef Octopus Skimmer is ready, two Ehiem thermometers, one Zeovit reactor and soon the GFO and Carbon reactors. Continue reading

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