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04-28-2010, 05:21 AM
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I am 6 months away from a Red Seal Carpenter (journeyman). Your tank is spreading the (not particularly significant) weight along 6'. If your floor can't support that and a sump then the building should be condemned! Don't worry about that weight, it is not significant as long as you place it properly. A tanks' length should always be perpendicular to the direction the floor joists run so that the tank sits over as many joists as possible instead of just running the length of one. Know what I mean?
Really, save yourself the trouble and get the tank drilled now with a sump. You should find a 30 gallon sump to have enough room for a skimmer and return chamber. The sump will only be half full anyway, so you're only adding about 150 lbs to the total. That is only about 10% of the weight of the display tank. The weight of a small sump is not significant. You can buy a good quality in-sump skimmer for less money than you can buy an ok quality HOB skimmer. My 2 cents.  Quote:
 
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04-28-2010, 05:34 AM
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hob skimmer
don't get a Remora, biggest p.o.s. skimmer I've ever owned. I've got one on my fowlr 54 gal bowfront and it never really skims much.
Just drill the tank now and just put a temporary "small " sump such as a 25=30 gallon, then you will have the option of any multitude of in-sump skimmers. Vertex skimmers work really good and aren't too expensive.
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Last tank was 210 reef with 90 gal sump 120 , lps. 2xKessil A350W Tuna Blues, 2xvortech mp40 for flow,aqualogic 1/4 hp chiller, 160 lbs live rock. sohal, , pair of percs,flame dotty back , royal gramma, pair of black percs, niger trigger, mandarin 55 corner bowfront freshwater, African cichlids kessil a350 30 gal 36x36 coffee table fish tank. 3 red ear sliders. 5.5 gal nano, live rock, arrow crab, baby perc, firefish.
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04-28-2010, 06:28 AM
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Vertex is good but there are a tun of skimmers for in sump action that are better unfortunately the best cost more than they weigh in gold. But you get what you pay for in this hobby. If you go cheep then you get cheep and the head-achs to go with it. I've been in fish my entire life, saltwater for 21 years and I don't know everything just what I use. As dose anyone else some have used alot of different skimmers and others only a few. If you put a sump I would just go to a conical cone skimmer I have hear nothing but good things about them there are a few companies that make them.
Here is a pic of my Aqua medic skim cup after 30 hrs: http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...k/100_1937.jpg The proof is always in the pic. Now that is black smelly skim. Bill
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