Thread: my 131g FOWLR
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Old 03-02-2010, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by burgerchow View Post
Kien,
It would be way easier to just use the 15% water from your reef tank that you change weekly to do a 15% water change on your fowlr tank. Just re-use the reef water for your fowlr water changes. This will save you a lot of time, plumbing, and lots of money ( less salt and additives. Don't forget, if you're plumbing a 150 and 121 together, with sumps, you'll need to add additives to compensate for over 300 gallons.) There's nothing wrong with the water from your reef tank for a fowlr tank. I currently drain about 20 gallons from my fowlr tank ( python straight into the sink) and refill with water from my 120 reef, then just add the new salt water into the reef. Lots less work than mixing 2 batches of salt all the time.
hmm, that's not a bad idea actually. Only problem I see here though is the duplication of equipment which I'm hoping to avoid. Two skimmers, heaters, carbon reactors, etc.. The only additives I add are calcium and baking soda and those are cheap. If the plumbing turns out to be too daunting I will end up taking your approach :-)

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Before I ask any other misconstrued question is the rest of your picture drawn as you see the whole system functioning
Yes :-)
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