New 165g 7 footer

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Originally Posted by SteveConn

@lastlight... you wouldnt believe the number of magnetic frag disks I have.. Its ridiculous. There is barely a free space on any of the rock..sps growing into each other... so the extra space is going to be great.

As for the MP40's, I cant imagine less flow in an SPS heavy tank. I run them on "reef mode" at up to 70% on a 3 ft tank.

I have a bunch of Korillias <sp> that I may play for the time being if the flow is less than I'd like and just figure out if I need an MP40 or 60

I altered the sump (7ft long as well) so that there is almost 4ft to grow cheato... Happy with that, but the pump area could be reduced... seems to be too big a compartment for that.

QUESTION... Why does the skimmer have to be in a separate container, is it just because of microbubbles and potential for cavitation on the pump blades?

Hey Steve. Are yours mp40es? I have 2 es on my 120g 4 ft tank and they where fine with all sps being frags. But now that they are colony I find its not enough flow. Couple colonies have some dead tissue in the center. However I only run then at 80%. If yours are ES. Consider getting another one for the back wall so you can run nutrient mode the way ecotech designed it.

And a dedicated chamber for you skimmer because you want the water level to be constant. It does help with micro bubbles as well.

[SteveConn]

Thanks for the input.. I've had so much sucess with my existing setup I want to make sure I do this right.

Its hard for me to believe I will get adequate flow with just 2 MP40's in 7ft of water. Someone suggested an MP60, but that seems like too much to shoot out from the 24" back wall and too lopsided to have an Mp60 on one end and an MP40 on the back and opposite...