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I'm not certain about that, Tim. I was on the phone with Marc Levinson when I bought the stuff, and he says the price was quite comparable to Acry-Lite.

So... I bought some 1/4" acrylic from home depot with which I planned on building a sump. No, it wasn't the brand name "Acry-lite" but supposedly was just as good. The bigger sheets were $75 each so I figured just based on cost alone this must be some pretty good stuff. So, I started to...

Anyone know anything about Chitons? Are they reef safe? I have found one in my tank... (5 months later and still discovering new stuff, how cool is that?!) and I am just looking for a little info.

...and the previous post actually brings me to my next question. So I have a relatively small tank, 29 gallons. For reasons to many to list here, that probably won't be changing anytime soon. So, what I have been considering lately is putting together are a quarrantine tank, and also a...

Well, I finally did it. Before I started my aquarium in late May, I was told by skip that having a Fluval canister filter would cause me problems... and even if I took out all the filter material and replaced it with live rock rubble that the unit would be a freaking nitrate factory. Well, I...

When in doubt, just keep testing your water. If you lose something of that size, it will show up in your tests pretty quickly.

aside from the minor mentioned issues, works great!

It's been running for about 4 months, no problems at all aside from those mentioned.

So here they both are, finished. The other thing that I would love to change is that I would love to have some flow control between the two sides. I ended up with more flow at the bottom than at the top because the lenth of locline is much shorter. So if there is some kind of ball valve or...

So there are only two things I didn't like about how these ended up. First, the pivot point seems weak. Now I don't know this for a fact, because nothing has ever failed, but I am concerned it could. Mainly I have to stabilize the pivot point and the powerhead with one hand and adjust the...

several hours later, I snapped on the remaning locline.

Time to clamp these parts together. Tight, but not too tight, otherwise the pieces will warp and will probably pop apart when you remove the clamp.

Hey, nice fit!

The next step was to cement these two parts together. I had hoped the plastics would both be pvc or abs and I could use the glue to basically weld the two pieces together. The other stupid thing I did was to pull both powerheads out of the aquarium at once, plus I am really impatient - which...

So the next step was to drill out the interior of the adapter so it would fit on the exhaust port. This was difficult to do - fortunately I had an expanding bit which made it easier. I probably should have used some kind of clamp rather than just hold it with my fingers, so don't follow these...

In order to make the adapter fit, one of the sides had to be sanded down significantly with said grinder.

I don't have a belt or disc sander, so my grinder had to work in a pinch.

I wanted the locline adapter to fit flush against the base when my project was complete. Therefore, the next thing to do was to remove the threads from the adapter. Watch your fingers!

So this is the locline adapter that I chose to use. It is a 1/2 with male threads.

So here it is, with the exhaust port shortened...