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UPDATE
Tank Filled by yesterday. I put some more cured live rock. Since there is no substrate at the bottom, I can see small creature is finding their food on the bottom glass and swimming around. I am sure this is an indication that the water is still healthy. Everything is going fine; otherwise, all the creature may die.

An Accident:

I felt that I am strong enough and will able to place sump inside the stand, while I was trying to be strong and tried to ...

Hi fellow addicts, My name is Sheldon Wiseman and I live in Moncton, New Brunswick Canada. I have been involved in the hobby for about 8 years now. I started out like most folks with a 20 gallon "Nemo" tank after watching the movie with my kids about 30 times. Well 8 years and an entire line of credit later, I am now up to my dream system. Unfortunately, this current system is not my wifes dream system. It is far too noisey, and I can not figure out why. The purpose of ...

UPDATE

Time to be salty.

NSW (Natural Sea Water) arrived . . .. . I got couple of 20 liters Bottles, to get water from Sea.




576 liters Natural sea Water is here.

In the same time, I made 120 gallon tank water changes with 15gallon and put this 15 gallon in my new tank ...

Finally decided on my dream setup, so I went ahead and ordered an Elos 70 system. In a month or so I'll have all the parts delivered and ready to get wet, but in the meantime here's a product list.

Hardware

• Elos 70 system
• Icecap 250w pendant/ballast + 14k Phoenix bulb
• Vortech mp40ES
• Spectrapure RO/DI (sorry Melev, saved on shipping!)
• 50lbs. of 'reef saver' rock from BRS
• x2 American DJ 4-plug strips
• Azoo quad fan

My logic

• As this will be a species

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So I'm most likely going to be bombarded with various post telling me that I am absolutely nuts for thinking about setting up an aquarium without a sump. But my wife purchased a standard 120 gallon All-Glass aquarium for me for Fathers Day and rather then take the aquarium back to the store to imply that she did something wrong I would rather run with it. Besides I know that a sump has many uses and provides for a broader spectrum of equipment to be used but in my thinking really what is a sump ...