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12-26-2007, 12:38 PM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Indy
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I have berlin sump made by essopps. Very nice. I have live rock, culerpa, mangrove plants and some times carbon in it. I also have a huge skimmer down there doing the dirty work. Live sand, clean up crew, and live rock in the main tank. It works. | 
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12-26-2007, 01:16 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Dakota Age: 31
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I don't use a "filter" per say, I do have a sump/fuge, a corallife protein skimmer, live rock, and a couple of powerheads for extra circulation and that's it.
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90 gallon with 26 gallon sump/refugium, 2 x 250 MH lighting, 100lbs live rock, 1 - yellow tang,1 damsel, 1 - cleaner shrimp, 1 - coral banded shrimp, 3 - emerald crabs, 2 - porcelin crabs, 6 - peppermint shrimp, 1 - green ricordia, 1 - toadstool, 1 - brittle starfish, 1 - sand sifting star, 100's baby feather dusters,Ass mushrooms, frogspawn, xenia, 1 clam,
6 - Leather coral, Green star polyps,Lime green/orange button polyps,1 huge carpet anenome,various snails/hermit crabs | |
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12-26-2007, 01:35 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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Well iv'e said it befor and I will say it again their is 101 ways to run a healthy saltwater tank I myself dont do any kind of machenical filtration but I have alot of live rock and some may say an extrem amount of turbulant flow however I change 1o% of my water weekly and syphon my substrate when I do the water change , however that beeing said I can not wait to upgrade my skimmer and start up a fuge tank _________ 
55gl skimmerless, 80lbs live rock, DIY wavemaker running 3x MJ1200 with hydor deflector.
2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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01-01-2008, 05:47 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: TITUSVILLE, FL Age: 31
Posts: 50
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So A Berlin Setup With A Fuge And Bingo Im Good.
Has Anyone Used A Filter From Lifereef.com Thinking Bout Getting One Of Those Berlins With Fuge. But There Exspensive. They Cost About $1200 _________ 55g ROOM DIVIDER TANK(PENINSULA)2-250W HALIDE 4-96W ACTINIC REEF TANK/W YELLOW TANG, SEBAE CLOWN, 4 STRIPE DAMSEL, BLACK SPOT DAMSEL 2 EMERIL CRAB, VARIOUS SNAILS, ORANGE ZO"s ROCK ANEMONE, CARPET ANEMONE, PRO CLEAR 75 BUILT IN SKIMMER, KORALIA 2 POWEREHEAD | |
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01-01-2008, 07:24 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 35
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i say as much filter as you can put on it within reason.i use chaetto in a sump liverock a plenum carbon sponge skimmer
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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01-02-2008, 09:46 PM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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on my 75 gallon sps i have 150 lbs of L/R with 75 lbs of L/S, 15 gallon refugium with 30 lbs of L/R with 15 lbs of L/S and calupera, life reef skimmer, wet/dry with 30 lbs of L/R and bio balls, and cant remember the last time i did a water change. all the bad levels are 0.
otty and coral reefer your on the right track
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just one little sps frag tank with lots of goodies | |
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01-05-2008, 12:30 AM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Indy
Posts: 181
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Berlin method worked for me. I would recommend it to anyone setting up a tank. A sock, LR in the sump, some natural nitrate and phosphate reducers, light it on opposite cycles as your tank, skim it, and send it back to the tank. And the bonus is you can use it for time out for your naughty fish and inverts!!! | |
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01-06-2008, 09:28 AM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: TITUSVILLE, FL Age: 31
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to save money would a say 30 gall tank used as a sump with two good skimmers work or a should i stick with the plan i have of the lifereef berlin filter | |
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