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12-27-2007, 12:37 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
Posts: 3,451
  
|  Skimmer is getting a late X-mas gift.
Well, going with my pattern of ditching my god forsaken rio powerheads, I have decided to replace the rio 600 on my bak-pak 2 skimmer with a Maxi-Jet 1200. I have read that they work wonders and are not horribly noisy like the rios.
Has anyone else tried this? This will give me an excuse to clean the skimmer for the first time in four years... _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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12-27-2007, 05:35 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Maxi-jets are a good choice Bruce as I use them as well.
WOW, you haven't cleaned the skimmer in that long...yuk
good luck and wear a gas mask! hahah _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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12-27-2007, 10:02 AM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
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I did that on my Remora. Made a big difference. | |
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12-27-2007, 02:40 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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Originally Posted by coral reefer  Maxi-jets are a good choice Bruce as I use them as well.
WOW, you haven't cleaned the skimmer in that long...yuk
good luck and wear a gas mask! hahah | I know...I have always been hesitant because every time i move my heater gunk comes out into the tank...heh. With regards to heater, I am looking into replacing my old Jager glass 200w for a titanium one. Does anyone have suggestions? | |
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12-27-2007, 03:00 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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I use the Rena Smartheater Aquarium Pharmaceuticals RENA SmartHeater 300 Watt (Saltwater Aquarium Supplies > Heaters > Inline/ Specialty )
This is the most accurate heater I have used and believe me over 30 years I have used plenty, LOL....There is no glass to break. _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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12-27-2007, 05:34 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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That heater looks pretty cool. How does it work? | |
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12-27-2007, 06:01 PM
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| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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You plug it in and set your temperature.JK, LOL, i really dont know either. | |
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12-27-2007, 08:12 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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Thoes heaters look to be the biz, from what I read their it apears to me that they have a pump intergrated into them or am I off the mark again _________ 
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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