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[Carlo Miceli]

Congrats Steve, I have a question on a Pick.. It looks like an ASM skimmer like mine. You have the gate valve overflow. It just goes like a U shape and back into the water. I got the Mod kit and there arrangements are different and I could never tune down the skimmer from over flowing, especially with the Mesh Mod. Is that how you have it? Am I seeing it correctly?

 

[Rays]

Breath taking, congrats Steve.

 

[mandrake]

Very nice Steve,way to go.

 

[smcnally]

Congrats Steve, I have a question on a Pick.. It looks like an ASM skimmer like mine. You have the gate valve overflow. It just goes like a U shape and back into the water. I got the Mod kit and there arrangements are different and I could never tune down the skimmer from over flowing, especially with the Mesh Mod. Is that how you have it? Am I seeing it correctly?

Yes, I made my gate valve mod different than the one that you can get from ASM. I made it that way to help reduce splashing and it has worked very well. I'm sure you checked this, but make sure your riser tube is all the way down. I haven't done the mesh mod yet but will be soon so I will tell you if I have any tuning problems after that.

Breath taking, congrats Steve.

Thanks Ray!

 

[Kevin McG]

Nice job Steve, article is done very well

 

[Liam]

congrats Steve,great colors

 

[smcnally]

Thanks guys. Liam, of course there are great colors...some of the corals came from your tank!

 

[Liam]

Thanks guys. Liam, of course there are great colors...some of the corals came from your tank!

hehe,sorry did'nt recognize them,they look so much healthier

 

[Tstone]

Wow I did not know we were in the presence of greatness. Nice tank! Great job.

 

[Scott G]

Congrats Steve! I love the tank, you have some very nice stuff

 

[smcnally]

hehe,sorry did'nt recognize them,they look so much healthier

Smartass!

Wow I did not know we were in the presence of greatness. Nice tank! Great job.

LOL

Congrats Steve! I love the tank, you have some very nice stuff

Thanks Scott

 

[sandsifter]

The pictures are a little grainy. I bet it looks great in person smc!

 

[Gina McReeferson]

Congratulations Steve! Your tank looks beautiful as do as the pics! Great article.

 

[Gina McReeferson]

Congratulations Steve! Your tank looks beautiful as do as the pics! Great article.

BTW, that purple digitata is gorgeous!

 

[Pat H.]

Awesome Steve!! Congrats

 

[pantinor]

Wow I am amazed at your setup is very close to mine, yours has more variety of corals though. That purple digita is awesome.

 

[Bidadari]

Congrats Steve, very nice tank!

 

[HalfLung]

Great looking tank. Nice write up. Congratulations.

 

[Mr. Slippery]

Looks great! It's come a long way since you started. Nice tank.

 

[TomD]

Thanks everyone. I was pretty exited when they asked to do TOTM. Tom, I only use the phosban reactor to run carbon. I've run carbon since I started the hobby and if I don't my water looks "dirty" to me. I just fill it up with carbon and let it run for about a month before changing the carbon out. It is fed with a Maxijet 400, but I think I'm going to bump it up to a 600 because the 400 seems a little weak to me.

Ya thanks Steve, I run carbon 24/7 because I have a bit of a mixed reef. I am not happy with the bag in the sump. I have an MJ laying around so I think I am going to try this.

I figured that with the return line flowing through the bag (taped outside sump) that more water woulf get through.

With the phosban, a lot of water is being filtered through it?