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Hi All Old Birds (Fish rather), Just purchased a RedSea Reefer 525XL coming in 1.5-2 months. Hoping to share my progress and also to pick up tips and learn about the best practices along the way and have personalised feedback. This will be for a mixed reef tank for largely more hardy soft corals, LPS and fishes until confidence picks up and tank maturity. Equipment List: Tank & Lights: Red Sea REEFER XL 525 Deluxe (comes with 3 X ReefLED 90) Return Pump: COR-20 - Intelligent Return Pump Flow: Red Sea ReefWave 45 x 2 Skimmer: Red Sea REEFER RSK-600 Skimmer Chiller: Teco Chiller TK2000 Live Sand: Caribsea Arag-Alive! Fiji Pink 30kg Rock: Caribsea Life Rock x 30kg Salt: Red Sea Coral Pro Salt Nitrifying Bacterial: Red Sea Reef Mature Starter Kit Water: 5 stage RO/DI system Additional Bio Media: Marine Pure Block 8x8x4" - I got this because of the reduced amount of Life Rock & Sand, recommended amounts are 50kg of each but I prefer a less cluttered outlook so this will add in buffer for bio-filtration. Test Kits: Red Sea MCP Marine Care Test Kit I am intending to expand on this to run a manifold with 3 outlets for Chaeto reactor, Carbon reactor and 1 spare. Following which would be to integrate with the Apex 2016 Controller and also install the FMM so that I can put a figure on the flow rates going to each equipment and return. Questions for a start (Please pardon me if any of my question puts you off, i am only learning too!) : 1. Any hardware shops in the East to pick up plumbing equipment and what is the standard UOM local reefers use? in Inches or MM or both? This gets quite confusing. I am intending to build a manifold and hard plumb the return so that the system is slightly future ready when the reactors come in. 2. For the Apex 2016 Controller, does the power bar comes with USA socket inputs and voltage? Does this mean that we need to run a transformer/have adapters for every socket input?

Hi Guy's, First time posting here. Am in the midst of setting up a new reef tank. Tank dimension 33 x 18 x 20 inches Sump dimension 29.5 x 14.5 x 15 inches Overflow bulkhead 1 inch / 25mm I currently have a TOM 800 return pump (800 Gph / 3028 Lph), but the pump is quite old and has a slight knocking sound, maybe impeller starting to have problem. Since my overflow is 1 inch, my max flow should be about 600 Gph / 2271 Lph. Could anyone suggest me a good reliable and quiet return pump. Some suggestion's given to me so far is Jebao JM3000 / JM4000 or RIO 14HF. Eheim 1260 is out of my budget, but if no other better choice, i may bite the bullet and go for it. But this would be the absolute last last last option. Am from KL, Malaysia.