What's the best piece of equipment you have purchased for your reef?

[Smarkow]

This. It’s a prefilter for an ro/di booster pump that I use to stabilize my calcium reactor effluent drip. I modified it to accept a generic nylon automotive fuel filter screen. My effluent drip rate has been at exactly 1 per second for over two weeks now.


This is my backup just in case

This is awesome. Can you explain more or link me to a thread where you show how this is hooked up? Thanks for sharing

 

[Backtoreefing]

Two Versa pumps for continuous a water change. Installed 5-6 months ago and haven’t touched a bucket since. Bare bottom gets a quick siphon into a filter sock every now and then and that’s it.

 

[drernesto]

Reef kinetics ReefBot

 

[CPC Reefer]

Hands down. My custom LifeReef Sump, Refugium and Skimmer set-up. Top quality.

 

[ChrisNH]

Sump/overflow.

 

[Griev]

For me it was the Apex+Trident+DoS combo. I ran my tank for a year before I got it, and I'm so much happier with how stable my tank is, how much less time regularly spent testing, and how much more confidence I have that I could walk away from my tank for two weeks and everything would be fine.

They're not perfect and I definitely had a little learning curve getting it set up correctly, but I'm glad I did.

 

[dbowman5]

So what's your favorite pump?? ;Bookworm

i have a Hydor Seltz D Vario 2400. AC 6 setting return pump. I like it the most. Good vertical lift, quiet, hoping for a long life on it.

 

[cshplumber]

I'm loving my Clarisea SK-5000 roller filter. I do love my Kessil A360NE's and I'm sure my Apex can & will be more of a benefit once I get past the setup/learning stage but so far the Clarisea has been a "set it & forget it" kind of item.

 

[Reeferstin]

Apex

Ai hydras red sea skimmer eshops rs 100 sump bigger return pump aquasmart safe level skimmer shutoff has been awesome nothing to worry about over flowing coming from a walmart sump with the built in skimmer that would over flow everytime i would feed fish or add any chemicals

 

[Reeferstin]

i have a Hydor Seltz D Vario 2400. AC 6 setting return pump. I like it the most. Good vertical lift, quiet, hoping for a long life on it.

How big is your tank with the 2400gph i have the seltz d 1000 gph on a 90 gallon system and was thinking i need a 1600 for more flow

 

[Sebastiancrab]

The first thing that came to mind was my ReefBreeders LED light, I guess because it's my most expensive piece of equipment (cost more than the tank setup). I had to think about what my "best" piece of equipment is, though. I agree with others on the ATO, especially after spending my first 5 years of reefing manually topping off...I can't believe I did that for 5 years! When I upgraded to my 90, I may have lasted a week doing manual topoff before I ordered the Tunze ATO and also ordered an acrylic reservoir to sit beside the tank. I can go about 10 days or so without filling up the reservoir now, which suits me just fine! ;Joyful

Hi from Nashville! Where did you get the reservoir? It's nice looking. And so happy to hear everyone mentioning Tunze ATO's. I just bought a 3155 and haven't got it running yet.

 

[dbowman5]

How big is your tank with the 2400gph i have the seltz d 1000 gph on a 90 gallon system and was thinking i need a 1600 for more flow

my tank is 75 sump 25 gal in a 55 tank. i am lifting 9 feet from the basement using 11/4" return line. i am using the 2nd setting for return. setting 4 is as high as i can go without blowing my sand around so i have plenty of room for aging.

 

[Daveph68]

APEX Trident

 

[dbowman5]

How big is your tank with the 2400gph i have the seltz d 1000 gph on a 90 gallon system and was thinking i need a 1600 for more flow

a friend showed me that the return doesn't need to provide the majority of in tank flow that that can come from wave makers. i am thinking of rebalancing my drain to allow more flow through the 'fuge to allow more chaeto growth.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Added a poll and featuring as the QOTD! Thanks!

Wow awesome! Thank you!

 

[Hemmdog]

CO2 scrubber. I kept my windows open before but this works much better to keep pH at 8.3

 

[ycnibrc]

calcium reactor without it my tank won't be like today.

 

[MoreReefPlease]

Tunze ATO is clutch.

But I picked up all the Hanna Checkers (Alk, Calc, Phosphorus) for $25 total so I'm torn between the 2 purchases.

Dude, thats a great price holy ****!

 

[BrandonS]

I would say algae scrubber. I did diy mine however and it's one of the best things I've done for my reef. Would have to say wifi temp controller also gave tremendous piece of mind.

 

[Marc2952]

Ill have to say for me is the hanna checker since i still havent made the push towards any aquarium controller.