Our SaltWater Tank

I can’t stress enough how important is to have a cleanup crew.
It is a natural form of export, is something that every tank regardless of size should have. Some form of a cleanup crew.

Sunday we ordered a cleanup crew online from Reeftopia and received it Tuesday morning.
What we ordered was the “The Total Reef Care Special #3“.
There is a total of 189 critters for $139.
100 Turbo Snail [astrae]
18 Nerite Tesselatta
48 Nassarius Snails
24 Cerith Snails {the good kind}
4 Emerald Crabs
4 Peppermint Shrimp.
Considering that there was free shipping,
that comes out to $100 bucks for 189 critters!
That is the best value for the money that you’re a find!
You can even get close to that price going to a LFS.

This is the second time we ordered from Reeftopia
and both times they went off without a hitch received exactly what we ordered and delivered right on time.

So if you’re looking for cleanup crew take a look at Reeftopia

I am getting ready to put some bulkheads in place of my DIY overflows.
It not that the overflows don’t work, they have worked fine for over 3 years. Its just that I need to reposition the that then main tank and need the extra bit of room and the the “SALT CREEP” is start to really bother me.
I ordered 2 “Standard Threaded Bulkhead Fitting - 1-1/2in” from Marine Depot and I ordered a 60mm Diamond hole saw from e-bay.

One of the bulkheads is going from the refugium to the main tank and the other is going from the main tank to the smup.

All of the parts should be here in a week!

Amazing video…and to think it took them 4 sharks before they found out the reason behind the shark deaths….

Is recommended that you have 10 to 15 times your tank size as flow rate. For example if you have a hundred gallon tank, you would need 1000 gallon flow rate. You can accomplish this with powerheads, external pumps and a host of other doodads.

If you’re handy with DIY projects give this one Maxi-Stream Mod a try.

Last year we went to a HOME SHOW and put our name in the drawing for a HI-S Maxxima RO 35 gpd Guess what happened a week later?
They called to say that we won the filter.

They want an arm and a leg for their TECH to install it.
Since I like all of my appendages I installed it myself.
In truth the RO Water Filter was a snap to install!

The big problem we had with winning it was the cost of the replacement filters from the local supplier. They wanted almost as much for the filters as for the unit itself.

So we went on line and found this place water filters online. They made the whole deal worth while.