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View Poll Results: What is loudest on your aquarium? | |
Fans
|    | 17 | 22.08% | |
Sump Pump
|    | 17 | 22.08% | |
Skimmer Pump
|    | 5 | 6.49% | |
Skimmer
|    | 14 | 18.18% | |
Overflow
|    | 13 | 16.88% | |
Powerheads
|    | 3 | 3.90% | |
Chiller
| | 2 | 2.60% | |
Light Ballasts
| | 1 | 1.30% | |
Other
| | 5 | 6.49% | | Reef Links |  | 
11-22-2006, 10:28 AM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: May 2006 Location: CT Age: 29
Posts: 486
 
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I've got a Remora so it's the actual skimmer itself, not the pump, that's the loudest...
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20 High (started 5/18/06)
20 lbs live rock and 3" sand bed - Remora w/ MJ1200 & Prefilter - 10 gallon sump/fuge - MAG7 & SCWD return - 65W 10,000K PC - 15W Actinic - Red-legged Hermits - Cerith Snails - Nassarius Snails - Royal Gramma - 6line Wrasse - Maroon Clown - Wheeler's Goby - Bubble-Tip Anemone - Green Star Polyp - Button Polyps - Frilly Brown Mushroom - Green Bullseye Mushroom - Kenya Tree Coral | 
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11-22-2006, 10:44 AM
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#3 (permalink)
| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
Posts: 7,324
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Good point. I'll edit poll. | |
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11-22-2006, 10:46 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Noblesville, IN,Indiana Age: 56
Posts: 373
Karma: 92
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Can I change my vote from skimmer pump to skimmer? It's the air mixing that causes the noise? 
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55 gal FOWLR, SeaClone 150 skimmer. 2" LS, 50# LR. 29Gal sump/fuge ViaAqua 2600 pump, chaeto, 1" sand, LR
2 Percula Clowns, Scissortail Goby, Black Birdwrasse, Keyhole angel, Lawnmower Blenny, | |
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11-22-2006, 11:07 AM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Age: 25
Posts: 177
Karma: 46
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Definately my remora, but I couldn't live without it.
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30 Gallon Oceanic Hexagon- 70 lbs Sand -60 lbs LR
Aqua C Remora w/ MJ1200.
Inverts:1 Tonga Fighting Conch (Strombus gibberulus) 3 Mexican Turbos (Turbo fluctuosa) 5 Astrea Snails (Astraea tecta) 3 Red Foot Algea Snail (Norrisia norrisi) 1 Lavender BTA (Entacmaea quadricolor) 2 Olive snails Olivella sp. 15 Nassarius vibex 1 Pistol shrimp....polyps...zoas...shrooms
Fish: 1 Coral Beauty (Centropyge bispinosus) 1 Two spotted goby (Gobiusculus flavescens) | |
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11-22-2006, 11:13 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: up state new york
Posts: 55
Karma: 14
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my surge 3500 return pump it vibrates all over the sump | |
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11-22-2006, 11:14 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
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My $@%@#$% prizm skimmer. _________ 
20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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11-22-2006, 12:03 PM
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#9 (permalink)
| | Zoanthid
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ontario, canada
Posts: 1,117
Karma: 166
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definitely my remora. What a loud hiss it makes. Oh well that's what a 6 channel surround sound is for. _________ 20g
25lbs LR
1 hydor koralia
rio nano skimmer FISH: blk/white clown, damsel, yellow watchman goby CORAL: grn open brain, acan, torch, rics, toadstool, zoo's
INVERT:[/u] hermits, nassarius, astrea, turbo's, nerites, crocea clam
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11-22-2006, 12:29 PM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Georgetown, KY
Posts: 180
Karma: 12
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internal eheim 1262. I thought they were supposed to be quiet?
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95G AGA Wave| 120# Carib-sea Aragonite |100# Fiji live rock| euro-reef 80 Skimmer | Megalflow 3 sump | 6 bulb Tek-light T5 HO
250G AFY | 150 gallon sump | Reeflo ORCA 250 | 3x250w Halides | t5 actinics | Oceans motion custom "2way-4way" | |
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