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Old 01-25-2009, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by i have crabs View Post
ive always been to scared to run an external, to many chances of water ending up outside the tank i think, ive always used mag pumps with never one problem so far, and i just bought a red dragon 4.5 that ill be running as an internal also.
is thier any advantage to running a external over an internal return?
Same here, mag drives have been great for me so far. I like to have everything contained as well, keep all the water in one container and not on the floor

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Originally Posted by Mrfish55
PS do you allready have your 180gal? I have my old tank 72x24x24 (11 months new) sitting in the carport I make for to be good deal for you! LMK
MrFish, I do have the 180 already,wish I'd known about yours though as I drove to Red Deer to get mine


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Originally Posted by JDigital
what about a Reeflo Snapper? You could run it 1.5" -> 1" bulkheads.
I was originally looking at the snapper but by the time I put it through 8ft or so of pipe theres hardly any flow left
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