AquaClear & heater

[DongShenYin]

Can I fit a 50watt Tronic heater in an AquaClear 300? How about a 500? Can I also have live rock in there for some more biological filtration, or should I put in something else (such as carbon, or chemi-pure, or phosphate remover or whatever)? I plan on a 7gal AGA. Will it move so much water that a powerhead will just be superfluous?

[adinsxq]

you can fit a 50w tronic in aquaclear mini if you really wanted(needed) to... you just need to make some modifications. IMO, this is NOT the safest approach... but i did it anyway. X) i cut a piece of acrylic the size of my filter cartridge in my millenium1000 HOB filter (in order to dam the water level to an appropriate level) check out thread: http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...=&threadid=6976

 

specs and exploded diagrams for aquaclears are avalable at hagen's website (hagen.com).

 

lots of threads as of recent on minibows (trendy to have a bow7 i guess ) . an EXCELLENT place to do additional, minibow research is gilman's site... www.oc-creative.com/reef

 

[NanoLurker]

don't know about the heater fitting in there only because i don't know the dimensions of either item but here are a couple of links for you to look at (i know there are several others as well), you can do a more in depth search if these don't answer your questions

 

http://nano-reef.com/forums/showthread.php...aclear+refugium

and

http://nano-reef.com/forums/showthread.php...aclear+refugium

[DongShenYin]

Hm... the heater fits at an angle in my dad's AC 200's, so I'm guessing they'll fit on the 300's... How big is the opening on the canopy?

 

And I was gonna use the Eclipse 6 that I already had, but everyone shot down that idea in chat, lol.