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Just got them. The Alpha 250 is awesome - I went +1 on skimmer size and it has been great (pulling out lots of skimmate). Only issue with it is you have to make sure you have room for it. It's a "big boy". For the reactors, I got the Rx-X reactors, which come with their own eheim pumps...

After years of dabbling with a FOWLR tank...and then eventually with softies, I finally upgraded my tank/equipment to keep a more robust variety of fish/coral. Although I have time to do basic cleaning, I travel for work a lot and wanted to get someone in to do monthly maintenance (ie,water...

Like many others, I lost power for several days -- only to return home and see my reef tank completely totaled. I'm in the process of cleaning it out now and getting rid of all the dead fish and coral -- and have a question concerning the live rock. I have about 100lbs of live rock in the...