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4 sure LOL my laugh of the day is met. All I can say is yep the pump runs

Good article ccCapt I have had a Pink one for 2 years now & sorry to say something changed & it's going quick, but it was so striking I will get another. see it on the upper right, that was a year ago

Access was my thought 2, then sell it for 20 a pop ;)

Looks like a simple database, write your own.

Joe's Juice has always worked 4 me, kills them gone. Small amount into their open mouth & 5 sec later DEAD/GONE

A valve at pump to regulate is a must & a 900gph listed pump dosent put out 900 differ's by head pressure & use.

You would be better removing the pads & filling it with coral skeleton. The pads will catch & dissolve the fish poop. I also note this type of filtration will not allow for LPS or SPS corals & limited fish. A sump w/refug makes a much better system. Along with a real pump figure water vol x...

The gurgling is the line going to your sump starving for air. The fix is to drop a vent tube down the pipe to a level that eliminates the condition or redo the piping by adding a vent pipe.

So true on the anenome it was in the early days of my tank (1st month) where the chaeto has been there for a year w/o overgrowing & is now full of baby bristle stars which eat the poop. I have cut back once but that was just to share some w/babies with a buddy. The pods have NO problem living...

Understand I am not sayin do not have a skimmer, just not a 24/7 large skimmer. When/if you have like an anome die & turn to snot in your tank you need that skimmer (happened once) Have chaeto & Pho reactor in sump w/lighting that offsets tank lighting. No trimming of chaeto = just enough food.

Bristle stars & Crabs eat the poop w/o skimming, Kalkwasser in makeup water supply cal & maintain alk. Mag & Strontium & trace dosing is necessary. 120gal, 17fish, Montipora is only sps & new to tank but my LPS, Leathers, Mushrooms, Polyps & Softs multiply. I grow for others tanks. = works 4 me

IC your tank has only been running for a month. The hair algae is growing due to excess nutrients in the water & will disappear when the cycling & excess nutrients are gone. phosphate reactors help limit it. There are a number of livestock that are reported to eat it (Astraea Snail, foxface...

where there is a will there is a way. http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-01/gt/index.php shows a hang on overflow, if your 29gal is shorter then your main you can dump onto it then its just a pump external or internal plumbed back into your main. Beware your overflow has to handle more...

large skimming is a thought out there = 1 thought & i'm sure works 4 some. And my bad over skimming removes beneficial elements. But if water changes work 4ya that's good. Mine gets 2 20% a year & element dosing. Skimmer runs only if something dies, maybe once a year for a day.

I agree w/french canisters are factories, the pads catch the poop & liquefy it into the wc. Which is why u need good skimmer & PO4 reactor. The bad side of that is heavy skimming removes beneficial nutrients & canisters lead to old tank syndrom. There is no replacement for a sump w/refugium.