700 gallon tank, or how i spent my daughters inheritance
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Reefski's
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there is still plenty of algae for the vegetarian fish to eat and they graze all day.
at least until i walk in the room and then they follow me around waiting for the food to drop in but once they realize no food is coming they go back to their normal behavior.
they are eating all the different kinds of algae in the tank, even on the sand bed. there is a short fuzzy purple one they and the urchins really like.
click to watch the videos.
Carl
at least until i walk in the room and then they follow me around waiting for the food to drop in but once they realize no food is coming they go back to their normal behavior.
they are eating all the different kinds of algae in the tank, even on the sand bed. there is a short fuzzy purple one they and the urchins really like.
click to watch the videos.
Carl
Reefski's
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the bubbles are gone now. i was getting bubbles from the skimmer but have fixed that.
i'll have to take some more video.
some flow problems a little bit too. there is some cyano appearing in the tank. it is like a new setup almost. not the maturity i would like to have in the tank.
i'll have to take some more video.
some flow problems a little bit too. there is some cyano appearing in the tank. it is like a new setup almost. not the maturity i would like to have in the tank.
KEITHHAYS_2000
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Truly inspiring endeavor
Truly inspiring endeavor
I have spent most of the day reading your thread. I don't think after reading your story I will ever have a good enough excuse to get out no matter what happens.
I do have a question: what motivates you to have a system without a protein skimmer?
Truly inspiring endeavor
I have spent most of the day reading your thread. I don't think after reading your story I will ever have a good enough excuse to get out no matter what happens.
I do have a question: what motivates you to have a system without a protein skimmer?
dahenley
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he has a BAD A$$ MRC quad beckett skimmer.
i think he just turned it off because of the HUGE sumps/refugiums and at one time he had a massive ATS. so it wasnt working and pulling much so he turned it off. (plus it saved money by not running the huge pressure pump)
but, a page ago, he was talking about how its up and running again.
i think he just turned it off because of the HUGE sumps/refugiums and at one time he had a massive ATS. so it wasnt working and pulling much so he turned it off. (plus it saved money by not running the huge pressure pump)
but, a page ago, he was talking about how its up and running again.
Reefski's
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i have always run the skimmer, even when i had the various turf scrubbers. some times with ozone and sometimes without.
what motivates me is it seems a more natural approach and removes PO4 which a skimmer doesn't. less electricity i think.
my next system i want to have the tanks from the garage in a greenhouse. then they could be really great refugiums, cheatomorpha, etc.
it would be great to only have to use electricity to move the water, no skimmer, no lights.
my fish were all in one of the 250 gallon tanks in the garage and fed a lot. but the other tank was a deep sand bed and a few corals, no fish.
no algae scrubber or macroalgae. nitrates have been 0.2 ppm for months. and PO4 was staying under 0.10ppm not as low as i would like.
i have really enjoyed the fish back in the display tank these past few weeks. it's weird how much pleasure we get from watching the fish. it's also weird to spend a few hundred dollars on fish and more on corals, compared to how much money we spend to house them and try to keep them alive and healthy.
what motivates me is it seems a more natural approach and removes PO4 which a skimmer doesn't. less electricity i think.
my next system i want to have the tanks from the garage in a greenhouse. then they could be really great refugiums, cheatomorpha, etc.
it would be great to only have to use electricity to move the water, no skimmer, no lights.
my fish were all in one of the 250 gallon tanks in the garage and fed a lot. but the other tank was a deep sand bed and a few corals, no fish.
no algae scrubber or macroalgae. nitrates have been 0.2 ppm for months. and PO4 was staying under 0.10ppm not as low as i would like.
i have really enjoyed the fish back in the display tank these past few weeks. it's weird how much pleasure we get from watching the fish. it's also weird to spend a few hundred dollars on fish and more on corals, compared to how much money we spend to house them and try to keep them alive and healthy.
Reefski's
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my new really sunlit system.
so far it only has a few hundred pounds of live rock in the sumps and a few hundred pounds of sand in the glass tank. all from the old system in the garage.
it has been running for about two weeks now. no ammonia or nitrite and nitrate is <1ppm.
this is how my garage looks today. one could even park a car in there, not that we ever will.
i know the skimmer is in totally the wrong place in the sump.
fishcatdog66
Member
Wow I guess you made the call to sell afterall.Will look forward to the next build for sure. Curious what you ended up doing with the inground pool/koi pond?
