75 gallon tank

Since my last post an unexpected snow and ice storm and much colder than normal temps have hit western Washington. Along with the snow and ice came some unexpected expenditures, power failures, missed work, etc. Isn't that always the way.

Anyway, I finally decided to put the tank in the spare bedroom to replace the seams rather than wating on the temperature to rise above 40 so I could do it in the garage. I closed the door and put a fan in the window while I worked. I used All Glass ...

After doing a few "best guess" calculations, it appears the snapper hybrid would flow somewhere around 1500 - 1600 gph with the snapper impeller and the calc'd head loss. The pump actually comes with two impellers which can be changed out. My "best guess" calculations suggest, with head losses, the dart would flow around 2200 - 2400 gph. That's around 30x turnover for the tank. But with the dart impeller and at the calc'd head loss, the pump would pull around 180 watts. I'd ...

Sorry, it's not the best picture, but it shows the current 29 gallon set up. I have trouble keeping the phosphate and nitrate down, so there's some hair algae that I have to pull periodically. The xenia also grows like weed in the high nutrient environment.

In September 2008 I finally talked my wife into letting me set up a saltwater tank. We visited several fish stores and asked lots of questions and settled on a 29 gallon complete set up being sold on commission by a fish store near an army base for a soldier going over to the big sand box. It had almost everything we needed and even though we were told keeping the 29 gallon parameters in check would be hard, we decided to buy it. So we had a tank, stand, compact fluorescent lighting, two maxijet ...