A take on BB methodology.

Re: A Question to Bomber

Re: A Question to Bomber

skippyreef said:
And can you give me any other advice from your experience?
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Skip, that sounds like it's a good plan but I'm not a good equipment person at all. To me it sounds great, but someone else might have better ideas about it.
 
skippyreef said:
LAstly where would you hook up the UV pre return from a down line or post return off a T?
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Now that I have a opinion on! :)

I like the UV on it's on loop. Easier to service, adds a extra loop, and you can size the flow just right for the UV.
 
From what I have read over the past months [B/]Flow seems to be as important as a monster skimmer for a BB system.

I am going to do my skimmer on a direct feed from the overflow (gravity with gate valve) to capture the stuff before it gets to teh sump.

Also the idea of an elevated sump to siphon never occured to me before reading the thread. It seems reasonable though to get teh garbage out of teh sump as well.

Now I am a water change man and do it twice weekly so I guess I will siphon the detritus at those times to ease maintenance times (a few minutes twice a week as opposed to a block all at once) for myself.

I am looking forward to looking at teh tank and enjoying it rather than freaking out and worrying all the time.
 
Skippy your equipment sounds good. Remember its not so much how much flow as it is how well you have it incorporated. As per Ozone I do use it and like it. Its not a reqirement but boy does it eat through the organics, make sure you do some research on how to safely use and monitor it.


Bomber you see my little friend??? Air driven!!

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Mike
 
I have an ORP controller on the unit and will drive it via the skimmer and then the water out through carbon to decrease teh likelyhood of it making it into the tank.

I have planned out the circulation paths and will be keeping teh 6080's in hte bottom 1/3 every 24 inches, the 6100's on either side of the overflows and the penductors in the four corners, The wave box will be on an end LOL.

I wanted to create different types of ciculation so I choose the wave box fro the washing action, the 6100's for the pulsing, the 6080's just to keep the bottom parts of teh tank from striating and getting dead spots and the penductors to throw it all around :)

I had a surge at one time on a former tank and loved everything but teh flush and microbubbles :D the flow was terrific though!!!
 
Live rock should provide both an aerobic and anaerobic environment for the conversion of ammonia all the way through to nitrogen gas, just like a sand bed does. It may not have the same size anaerobic area as a sand bed, but for our purposes, it doesnââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t have to. We, generally, try to get as much dissolved and particulate organic material out of our tanks through skimming and siphoning as possible, before it enters the nitrogen cycle.
 
By going BB I think you are all missing out on a great opportunity.

I was watching a show last night about the mississippi. They explained how it dumps millions of tons of sediment into the gulf each year. And that sediment has made millions of barrels of oil.

See what im getting at people? WE could make millions,with our fish tanks.

So heres what i propose:

You feed all 100 fish "in your 90 gl tank", 50 times a day,and in about a year or so you take your 20 in DSB and tap it for crud. I mean crude :)

See theres always a postive just depends on how ya look at it
 
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