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Here is what we did. It's not really a detailed description.

my tank

We did a run with tap water and the overflow worked. Nice thin skim of water off the entire length of the tank.

You could make it with glass. The teeth aren't needed, and impair the skimming action of an overflow due to the meniscus on the water. If you are concerned about fish going over the overflow, just put in some light diffuser at the top or add a screen/foot to your intake. Silicone seems to adhere much better to glass than it does to acrylic. I looked for black acrylic in town but did not have any luck. Black glass was ridiculously expensive. However, if your overflow is small--go to the Habitat for Humanity Restore--I noticed they had some tinted glass there last time I was in. It was too small for my project, but it would work for a smaller one. The glass from one of those retro 70's glass coffee tables would work great.

We just finished making a tank-long overflow at the back of our tank. Waiting for the glass was a pita (as we needed almost 4' of it), but making the actual overflow was easy. Will post the link to that build soon as I update it with pictures.

I used superglue but it did not hold as well as I would have liked. The gel (like loctite) would have worked alot better as it would have been thicker, but I didn't have any. So I ended up using the superglue to put it on initially and then used silicone as it is nice and thick and filled in the gaps with a bead. Cyanocrylate is completely reef safe.

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You really don't need the channels, I just had them lying around. Can be easily done just siliconing, glueing or cementing for the baffles, etc.

I'm interested too if not too expensive.

Nice to see you here Greg!

Is there any way you can treat him? Maybe add some melafix, salt, something? Poor thing, I'm surprised it is still alive.

Welcome to AA. Still nothing good in Red Deer for SW, but Calgary, Edmonton and Lloydminster all have great stores. The Reef Shoppe will even ship things here, it's great!

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Well that sucks. Maybe a diy with foam and cement?

I think for a big gorgeous setup like that you should get an equally fantastic background. Check out the ones patrick has (Gills n' fins), frickin' nice! You could make a really nice one as well, or just paint the tank etc, but I think for a tank that size it might just be cost effective to get the pre-made panels and silicone them in.

Gorgeous pics!!!!

I had some fs for quite a while but not enough interest in them for all the work I put into breeding them/raising them so ended up keeping them and stopped breeding. Sometimes Riverfront has them in, have also seen Nature's with some. Petland even gets them sometimes.

If you have no coral bignose just cut the lights out until it goes away. Worked for me.

welcome here!

I usually just add some Prime to my RO before it hits my sw tank as Red Deer water does contain chloramine and you can't be too careful. I guess it depends on what you are using it for as to whether you would want to add trace elements, buffers etc.. Be aware though that many of these trace products also for some dumb reason include copper on their ingredient list. Fine if you just have fish, sucks if you have inverts. (at least it will once it builds up enough) Baked baking soda works really well for boosting kH.

Now that being said I usually don't bother to add the Prime to my FW tanks and have experienced no problems so far using it for top ups and for mixing with tap-water to get a lower pH for certain critters. I guess if you are worried about it you could always test for chlorine/chloramine.

That reminds me, not totally sure if it is relevant or not for this particular situation, but it wouldn't hurt. Get a test kit and make sure your kH and your calcium are ok. If you are prepping to put coral in the tank anyway, why not start early and get it where you want it. I don't remember the details but there are water quality related issues that can come about when these are out of whack (algaes/diatoms etc.) so making certain it's all good is just one more step you can take for prevention. If for some reason your kH/Ca is not where you want it there is a very easy two part solution you can use to raise it where you want it to be.

Here is what kwirky/Sean from Gold's gave me (ty!):

Originally Posted by kwirky

http://reef.diesyst.com/flashcalc/flashcalc.html

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/index.php

one's the calculator one's the recipe.

this is technically "randy's two part version 1"

This two part uses the anhydrous CaCl2(can get it from gold's and the bulk reef supply in the states) and baked baking soda.

And he doesn't try snacking on the shrimp? How are the bee gobies for temperment? I had hear that they could be aggressive and such, but if not I am considering getting one or some.

If you have no corals you could try doing a lights out for a while. I had major problems with cyano in one of my nanos for a long while and left the tank dark for like two weeks, added flow, added carbon (changed 1x per week) and it never came back.

You could add in rocks (either live or base) to reduce noise instead of the bio balls. If the rocks are bigger you won't get the detritus build up you would if they were smaller.

Tanks look great! What brand is the styrofoam background in the shrimp tank?

It's an Exoterra reptile background. Tank was pretty cloudy and I lost two shrimp when I set it up--I was worried about it the first several days, but I added an extra AC and some carbon and it has cleared up.

Great tanks smile.gif The fish must all be hiding from you.....I know the feeling, mine can be very camera shy

Thank you Yes they seem to disappear the moment I come near them with a camera, lol.

It might also help to run carbon too.

^ I agree.

Tell us more about your tank? Things like amount of flow, what's the water testing at for nitrates/ammonia, etc., have you added anything new (new plumbing?), how long it's been set up... It could be as easy as just adding in another powerhead if it is only lack of flow.

Welcome to the forums. Tell us more about your plans for your saltie setup, sounds interesting

I know we have an oddball section and such but we really don't have a specific invertebrate section for shrimp/snails/crays etc. in the freshie section. Could we get one? Maybe sticky up some info on breeding and types of shrimp etc.?