36g Shallow AIO

Stephanie11 · Jan 6, 2015

Awesome. Just if you do the black out I would skim wet as to try to get the dissolved crap out of there. Some people drill or have a small hole on the bottom of their skimmer cup, then run that to a bigger collection cup like a 5 gal bucket. Idea is if something dies you need to export the remains. If you skim wet just make sure you keep an eye on salinity it will go down.

jabeuy · Jan 6, 2015

Stephanie11 said:
Awesome. Just if you do the black out I would skim wet as to try to get the dissolved crap out of there. Some people drill or have a small hole on the bottom of their skimmer cup, then run that to a bigger collection cup like a 5 gal bucket. Idea is if something dies you need to export the remains. If you skim wet just make sure you keep an eye on salinity it will go down.

Ooh thanks for the tips Stephanie.
I think I will eventually drill a drain on my skimmer cup regardless, I'm always scared of it overflowing in the case it starts to act up.

SantaMonicaHelp · Jan 6, 2015

Do you have other tank that he can go?

oh:

jabeuy · Jan 6, 2015

SantaMonicaHelp said:
Do you have other tank that he can go? oh:

Not yet, but have plans for a larger one mid next year in a bigger space.

You're not the algae scrubber santamonica are you? Haha

SantaMonicaHelp · Jan 6, 2015

It sounds nice! Are you going to do a shallow tank again?
And I work for SantaMonica.

-Y

jabeuy · Jan 6, 2015

SantaMonicaHelp said:
It sounds nice! Are you going to do a shallow tank again?
And I work for SantaMonica.

-Y

I want to do shallow again. This one is 13" high, might do something up to 16" or so. I like how it looks, but most of all it's easier to work in haha.

I might try one of the HOB scrubbers one of these days if I don't get my nutrients under control.

SantaMonicaHelp · Jan 6, 2015

The 16" sounds good!! Are you going to keep both of the tanks next year? or move the current one into the new tank?
Also, we have HOG not HOB

Let us know if you need any help! Good luck on your nutrients control! :thumb:

-Y

jabeuy · Jan 6, 2015

SantaMonicaHelp said:
The 16" sounds good!! Are you going to keep both of the tanks next year? or move the current one into the new tank?
Also, we have HOG not HOB Let us know if you need any help! Good luck on your nutrients control! :thumb:

-Y

Both!

And yes HOG haha. I was pretty sure I typed that lol.
What size do you recommend for my tank? If anything, I was thinking of giving the 'drop in' model a try.

New York Reef · Jan 6, 2015

Really Nice tank!

New York Reef · Jan 6, 2015

Got in the convo alittle late but I always wanted to do a shallow tank i really like the set up!

jabeuy · Jan 6, 2015

New York Reef said:
Got in the convo alittle late but I always wanted to do a shallow tank i really like the set up!

Thanks!

SantaMonicaHelp · Jan 6, 2015

jabeuy said:
Both!

And yes HOG haha. I was pretty sure I typed that lol.
What size do you recommend for my tank? If anything, I was thinking of giving the 'drop in' model a try.

You can go to this link and find one that suits the best to your tank. The drop-in is usually for small tanks. I will recommend the HOG 1 for trying it out, because this one works on most of the tanks.

Which one

jabeuy · Jan 6, 2015

SantaMonicaHelp said:
You can go to this link and find one that suits the best to your tank. The drop-in is usually for small tanks. I will recommend the HOG 1 for trying it out, because this one works on most of the tanks.
Which one

Thanks for the info