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After a year lull in letting my 75g mostly SPS reef grow in, I listened to some old ReefCast and new Reef Addict podcasts. Funny how they get you fired up about reefing again. So, I will blame Marc to my wife for having just gone out and ordered a new 150g tank to upgrade. I swapped the dimensions on it to get more front to back room, and shortened the height. It is going to be 72x24x20. Will have Euro bracing all around, so no shadows, yay. Thanks Marc, you're the reason I give my wife when ...

For those of you that enjoy browsing flicker for a more refined photography taste, we've created a group just for you Reef Addicts. Join up and add your best saltwater livestock images to the pool. The goal of this group is to eventually be THE place to waste time browsing through jaw dropping underwater photo after jaw dropping image. We need you to put the word out to all your photographer friends!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/reefaddicts/

I've recently installed a weir type overflow on my 100g mixed reef, and due to some extenuating circumstances I wasn't really interested in even spending the $15 or so to pick up something along the lines of an aqualifter to pull air out of the device to keep the siphon going. My initial thought was to just run some airline from the nipple on the overflow down to the sump and just manually start a siphon and let it run. . .life is happy, right? Nope. I have a 2100gph flow powerhead right next ...

Seriously - be a human being. Please.

When the Vortech pump starts rattling, the first thing to do is realign the motor with the wetside. If it goes back to silent, that's perfect. However, over time, the rattle may return and refuse to go away. When this happens, you need to replace a small part inside the wetside.

I had this problem recently with one MP40w, and obtained some new parts prior to beginning this little project. Having a local fish store with parts is ideal, but if you can't do that, they are now available ...