600gal (96x48x30)
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asnatlas
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Yea, I have always wanted one and I found it for a good price and couldn't pass it up... It is to date my most exp fish ever :rolleye1: and prob my last...
I would love to have a 1700gal display like Energy... I just can't even imagine another 1100gals, that would be soooo sweet...
spazz
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well just break open the piggy bank and do it!. ha ha ha ha
big tanks have so much more going for them because they can house alot more fish and corals that smaller tanks cant. some day i would love to build a big tank for myself. for now i will have to be content with visiting energys tank all the time.
asnatlas
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Well when I got home tonite I found this...
Sorry for the crappy pic, The lights were out, but you get the idea... I have been noticing that the water was getting a little cloudy over the past few days, but I barely see in the tank now ?? I am running the skimmer and carbon... I have also cut my lighting back as I am thinking its an algae bloom ?? Any ideas ?? Anything I can do to help clear it up ??
Sorry for the crappy pic, The lights were out, but you get the idea... I have been noticing that the water was getting a little cloudy over the past few days, but I barely see in the tank now ?? I am running the skimmer and carbon... I have also cut my lighting back as I am thinking its an algae bloom ?? Any ideas ?? Anything I can do to help clear it up ??
mr.wilson
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You have a phytoplankton bloom. It's usually caused by limited flow, over-illumination, and growing pains of a new system. You can eliminate it with one or all of the following...
1) U.V. Sterilizer: Set the throughput slow enough that you get a high kill ratio.
2) Add rotifers: This never worked for me, but many swear by it.
3) Diatom filter: Use a micron filter bag or a Vortex Diatom XL to remove them. You don't have to use the diatom powder, but it removes smaller particles and makes the filter bag much easier to clean.
4) Discontinue lighting: With base rock, there's no need for lighting until the tank has stabilized (two months).
5) Water clarifiers: This should be done in conjunction with #3. I use Kent Pro.Clear or Seachem (Clarifier?). These polymers will lower the dissolved oxygen rate if you overdose, so follow the manufacturers directions and consider displacement from rocks etc. They act as a coagulant and either "choke-out" free floating algae or bunch it up enough to make it heavy and easier to trap with mechanical filters.
6) Phosphate remover: Base rock is a phosphate and silicate sink. You'll have to inoculate your system with bacteria, as your rock and lack of substrate will slow the cycling time greatly.
7) Increased flow: Try to move as much water from the bottom of the tank up to and across, the surface. How much flow do you currently have? Does your surface skimmer remove all oils and other surfactants from the surface?
1) U.V. Sterilizer: Set the throughput slow enough that you get a high kill ratio.
2) Add rotifers: This never worked for me, but many swear by it.
3) Diatom filter: Use a micron filter bag or a Vortex Diatom XL to remove them. You don't have to use the diatom powder, but it removes smaller particles and makes the filter bag much easier to clean.
4) Discontinue lighting: With base rock, there's no need for lighting until the tank has stabilized (two months).
5) Water clarifiers: This should be done in conjunction with #3. I use Kent Pro.Clear or Seachem (Clarifier?). These polymers will lower the dissolved oxygen rate if you overdose, so follow the manufacturers directions and consider displacement from rocks etc. They act as a coagulant and either "choke-out" free floating algae or bunch it up enough to make it heavy and easier to trap with mechanical filters.
6) Phosphate remover: Base rock is a phosphate and silicate sink. You'll have to inoculate your system with bacteria, as your rock and lack of substrate will slow the cycling time greatly.
7) Increased flow: Try to move as much water from the bottom of the tank up to and across, the surface. How much flow do you currently have? Does your surface skimmer remove all oils and other surfactants from the surface?
jnarowe
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wow, with skimmer and carbon...that is rough. you would have to add a hell of a lot of rotifers to fix that. I would add to the list large water changes. The nutrients must be high right? It's hard to believe with all that "cooked" rock but maybe the whole bacteria issue is the key. Have you added any bacteria?
asnatlas
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I don't have a UV, so that is out of the question, I may have to look at getting one here soon...
I think a local club member has some, but 850gal is ALOT of water LOL...
I have a Diatom XL from my FW days
I just got done hooking that up, I am using it with the powder as well...I have a bottle of PHOS-Buster Pro, LOL its only 236ml and I need 1ml per gal... So I am about 614ml short...
Flow ?? I have 2x 6100s and 4x 6200s, now they are not running full blast 24x7 but it seems like a good amount of flow... I was thinking about picking up some Seio M2600 pumps and having them in the bottom of the tank facing the front so that it would move the water to the front pane and then up and over the top...
