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  1. DIY Sump from an aquarium

    Thanks for the advice guys. I think I'm going to set mine up like bleedingthought's. Turns out I've got a glass shop right by my house that was willing to drill the hole for the pump and provide the glass pieces for very little, so everything has worked out well =). I'm going to post a...
  2. Appropriate lighting for a new tank

    Thanks for the advice, guys. I'll do some more thinking and go from there. I do have one question, although maybe I ought to know the answer to this already =). I've never had a tank with an open top before. If I do have an open tank, how do I prevent fish from jumping out? Is the standard...
  3. DIY Sump from an aquarium

    Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the help. =) How hard would it be to get an all glass aquarium drilled? I would certainly like to go with an external over a submersible pump, but I don't have the first clue as to what it would take to drill the necessary hole. I think that I will be...
  4. DIY Sump from an aquarium

    I've got a glass 29 gallon (30x12x18) aquarium that I would like to turn into a sump w/ refugium for a reef tank that I'm putting together, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any plans or had any recommendations for how best to go about this. Thanks in advance!
  5. Appropriate lighting for a new tank

    I am working on setting up what I intend to be a 55g reef tank (36x18x20) with a 25 gallon sump, but I am still trying to figure out the lighting. I currently don't have any sort of enclosure, and I am oscillating between buying a 3x96watt PC kit from ahsupply.com and building one myself, or...

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