Recent content by moonpod1

The XM10k IS impressive, but does it maintain output like that over the year or so of use? The SUN bulb held it's own against the Ushios and ABs of the world and at 40 bux shipped on ebay.....

It'd be nice if you could add in another one of aquacraft's salts, the "Public Aquarium Maintenance Formula".

I've had both the EV 180 and currently a 240. The 180 was run on several different pumps and honestly the one it worked best on was a Mag 7. It also worked really well with a blueline 800, but the blueline had to be choked back pretty hard, and well, was overkill. Currently I'm using the...

King Jason, go to one of the local chinese/japanese markets (look up 99 ranch market for instance), it'll be there. Otherwise, isn't there a santa monica seafood in costa mesa (not that far). I gotta admit, that's kinda bizarre, I can walk into the whole foods market where I live in L.A. and...

Look up a stockman mod of the durso standpipe. Designed for HOB overflows.

Had both...honestly they're about the same. Just get the one that you get a better price for. Neither one is great as an external, they're about the same noise level, close to the same size, and push in reality the same amount of water--no matter what the "numbers" say.

I just wanted to pump inland aquatics again. I got my pair of bicinctus clowns from them and they are beauties. Their fish are great IME!

I got 30# of the second tier gulfview rock and was truly impressed with the amount of life. There was ONE weird crab, but it hasn't caused any problems in my tank to my knowledge. No mantis, but TONS of macros and sponges etc... Really, no appreciable die off and no effect on water chemistry...

You're going to be WAY overloaded when those fish start growing. Except for the eel (and even that I'm not sure) EVERY single one of those fish will outgrow a 55 show. Don't add more, you need to reconsider you're fishes ultimate sizes and trade out fish. For example instead of a blue tang...

In general, euroreefs and their knockoffs come with the pump already. The modified impeller is sort of what truly separates the euroreef from it's knockoffs (southbay ASM etc...) but there are also construction materials differences as well. That being said, it's been reported that the...