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Posted by Benjamin Slade on June 18, 2005, 5:35 pm
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I'm running a 40 gallon reef tank with no sump, a protein skimmer, and
two Maxijet 900 pumps in the upper left/right back part of the tank
(hanging off the top rim of the tank). You can see the tank on the web
page:
http://www.benslade.com/reef.html
My question is, are there any sort of pumps that I can use to replace
the Maxijets where the heat generating part of the pump is out of the
water? But where I can still mount the pumps in the upper left/right
back of the tank? I'd like to also go with bigger pumps than the
maxijet 900's if possible.
Thanks
Ben Slade
Washington DC
PublicMailbox at benslade dot com
(append 030516 to the subject line to bypass spam filters)
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Posted by Rick on June 19, 2005, 1:47 pm
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Why dont you run a canister filter? Ehiems have a good output
efficent enough for a 40 gal tank. I had one with my 55 gal used it
along with the life rock
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Posted by Billy on June 19, 2005, 5:03 pm
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> Why dont you run a canister filter? Ehiems have a good output
> efficent enough for a 40 gal tank. I had one with my 55 gal used
> it
> along with the life rock
>
With the media removed, perhaps. Canister filters CAN work well, but
can create nitrate issues, as well. I, myself, would not use a
canister filter on a reef tank.
billy
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Posted by Rick on June 19, 2005, 9:49 pm
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Yes thats what they say but from 1st hand experience I never had this
problem I set up a 10 reef tank that had 20lb LS/10lbs LR and a ehiem
along with a backbac kimmer-nitrates never where a problem. I did do
50% monthly water change , which in CA we can buy ocean water for.30
cents a gal from our LFS-maybe thats why I did not have a nitrate
problem
Billy wrote:
> > Why dont you run a canister filter? Ehiems have a good output
> > efficent enough for a 40 gal tank. I had one with my 55 gal used
> > it
> > along with the life rock
> >
>
> With the media removed, perhaps. Canister filters CAN work well, but
> can create nitrate issues, as well. I, myself, would not use a
> canister filter on a reef tank.
>
> billy
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Posted by Billy on June 19, 2005, 10:41 pm
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> Yes thats what they say but from 1st hand experience I never had
> this
> problem I set up a 10 reef tank that had 20lb LS/10lbs LR and a
> ehiem
> along with a backbac kimmer-nitrates never where a problem. I did
> do
> 50% monthly water change , which in CA we can buy ocean water
> for.30
> cents a gal from our LFS-maybe thats why I did not have a nitrate
> problem
>
Aye, a 50% water change would take of any nitrate issue I can think
of. <g>
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> efficent enough for a 40 gal tank. I had one with my 55 gal used
> it
> along with the life rock
>