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04-09-2008, 10:32 PM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NE Ohio Age: 31
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Originally Posted by kimmy  I would like to see how you have them mounted and positioned in your tanks |
i will work on getting a pic for you when i am home and the tank lights are on so probable have to wait until friday but i will get it for you
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20 gallon nano
1 Bar Goby,1 Firefish Goby, 1 Purple Firefish, 1 Scissortail Goby, 1 Black Clownfish, 1 Seabea Anem
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72 gallon bowfront
2 Yellow Tailed Damsels, 2 Clownfish, 3 Green Cromies, 1 Naso Tang, 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Six Line Wrasse, 1 Carpet Anem | 
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04-10-2008, 05:32 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Here are some pics of mine, with pics of the sandbed and how it has fared. I just got mine going last Sunday, and no sand has moved since Monday. I am going to move the sand back now that I think I have it adjusted properly. It takes trial & error and time. Also I'm not sure if you already have one but I've heard that buying the magnet attachment is a must, which makes since. Those suction cups that are standard w/ MJ will fail over time and imagine this beast falling to the sand!! DESERT STORM! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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04-10-2008, 05:37 AM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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A couple more...
Note: Personal preference, but I like a little ripple in my sandbed, looks more natural to me. But this should not be a constant thing, once the ripples are there they shouldn't be constantly moving because of the PH. | |
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04-10-2008, 09:48 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Age: 21
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Cornface- I think you might be a little crazy. That's pretty funny. but anyways...
I love my maxi jet mod! I have a 75 gallon, set it up along the back of the tank, pointing upwards, I get some pretty awesome surface waves- I wonder if that's what a wavemaker does. But I think it definetly kicks some a$$ in my tank
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75 gallon: 1 yellow tang,1 cherub pygmy angel, 1 Kole Tang, 1 lawnmower blenny,1 orangespotted goby, 1 small watchman goby, 1 pearly jawfish, 2 cleaner shrimp, 4 peppermint shrimp, 1 pistol shrimp, 1 sally light foot, 1 emrald crab, 20 hermits, 5 turbos, 12 mexican turbos and 1 brittle star. And a ton of sandsifting snails. Leather toadstool, frogspawn, 2 pulsing xenia, bubble coral, brain coral, elkhorn, flavia, anthelia, a colt, a goniopora and a rock full of zoas.
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04-10-2008, 10:07 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Apr 2008
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WOW, those maxijet mods look like they are way to strong.
Can you file the impellers down? Or put a toggle switch on the pump? | |
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04-10-2008, 10:48 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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It comes with a second, less powerfull empeller, it puts out 1600 gph instead of 2100. Here are some specs of the mod: Sure Flow 1600 Kit: Premium Aquatics | |
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04-10-2008, 12:24 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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mmmpppf too much, lol, never heard that in this hobby........my mod made my leather twice its previous size....... _________  | |
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04-11-2008, 10:10 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Age: 21
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Originally Posted by bmshehan A couple more...
Note: Personal preference, but I like a little ripple in my sandbed, looks more natural to me. But this should not be a constant thing, once the ripples are there they shouldn't be constantly moving because of the PH. | I have to agree with you. Some people are saying it's too much power but you just have to mess with it alittle bit to get the right placement. It took me about a day to figure out excatly where I liked it without having a cyclone in the tank. I find the best placement is too just point it a little bit upwards towards the surface of the water. And I have another powerhead on top of my maxi with the mod. I run a koralia also. The more flow the better I think. My corals love it and so do my fish, especially my lawnmower blenny! | |
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04-11-2008, 10:30 AM
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| | Teardrop Maxima Clam
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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Originally Posted by cornfacereef My dad told me not to buy powerheads because we had to many cordless drills sitting around the house.
He suggested to get a paddle tool, like the ones you mix paint with and place them on the end of the drill.
Zip-tie the trigger on full power and fasten the drill above the water surface and that would be great water movement until the batteries wore out.
Then re-charge the batts.
Is that a good way of doing things without spending all that money on those expensive Tunzes? | REDNECK REEF sounds like a new Web site opp.to me LOL ( no offence Matt) | |
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04-12-2008, 10:59 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lakewood, CA Age: 34
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thanks for the pic's...where did you get the braket to suction it to the glass? Mine didn't come with anything like that. _________ Kimmy | |
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