Up and Coming 75gal Reef

[d.french]

now you need your sump and your nova extreme pro and octopus skimmer and you will be set. you ought to try to find a 30 gallon long aquarium for a sump instead of 29 gallon so you can use a bigger protein skimmer.
http://www.premiumaquatics.com/aquat...CT-NW-150.html

or this one

http://www.premiumaquatics.com/aquat...V-EXT-160.html

my house is right down the road from the fragswap today if you wanna come by and see both my tanks.

[runningrandy04]

Dang, how big of a skimmer do I need? As long as the footprint is less than 12inch on one side it'll fit. I can always take away from the refugium. I'm only gonna have rubble and macro down there so it doesn't need to be that big. Thanks for the thought though.

[d.french]

the octopus 110 will work good but if you end up with alot of fish later on i would go with the 150 model. Didn't see you at fragswap was you there

[runningrandy04]

no, i stayed up too late last night. watching it cycle. then i kinda slept through my alarm. stupid huh? I was thinking about doing the 110 recirculating

[kvcgsxr600]

I am looking at doing the 110 recirc needle wheel on my 75 gallon once I move my Octopus 300 to the 210. The 110 is rated for a 90 gallon so if you plan on having a decent fiah load I would definitly go with the 150 recirc needle wheel. They are great skimmers though. Here is what my 300 pulls.

[d.french]

i need some overtime so i can upgrade my older model extreme 150 to a bigger octopus pro.

[Alexander]

Just a side note on your remote DSB. I would reccomend not using various types of substrate for that. I would only use sugar fine sand. Reason being the larger the grain size the more penetration of oxygenated water, thus increasing your need for more depth. the sugar fine sand (.2-1.5mm) will be much better for denitrification. Just make sure that you are adding sand periodically. The sand will dissolve at a fast rate. so a 6in DSB can go to 3 inches over a 18-24 month period.

[runningrandy04]

damn kevin, that is so wonderfully nasty. Have to expect that with that huge skimmer on a 75 though. Yea... the 150 would defiantly work for me. thanks for the help alexander. I was planning on doing a 10inch with ranging sizes to allow a greater variety of fauna to thrive, but nobody really could give me any specific advice about the dsb so i decided not to experiment with it this time. maybe in a few years.

[runningrandy04]

Hey guys, I need some help before I do something stupid. Is it possible for a tank to cycle in less than a week. My rock has been in a garbage can with 2000gph flow for 3 weeks before I added it to the tank. I set up the live rock on friday with 30lbs of sand (dry). Threw in 2 cubes of brine/mysis shrimp to start the cycle. Also used 10 gal of water from my established tank along with the used filter media to get the bacteria in there. Tested it every night so I would know what was goin on. It was up to .25 ammonia by day 2. Ammonia was almost 0, with nitrites at .2 on day 4. Just last night I tested 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, and 25 nitrates. Would it be safe to transfer my 2 chromis tonight so i dont starve the bacteria? Parameter wise I know its safe, but would it be able to keep up the new tank swings if I tested every day/ every other day?

[d.french]

put chromis in and give it a week and test water again, remember patience or you will end up with hair algae from hell if you get to many nutrients and fish food and poop in there to quick.