bangaicardinal
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Hello all, after years of researching this hobby and finally buying a house so I can set up a worth while tank, I have done so.
I have a 125g reef tank with a 40g sump underneath
I've enclosed pictures
The DT is drilled, and a pipe feeds the water down to my sump / refugium
I have a filter sock catching the water from the DT, and my fuge is in that same chamber. I have egg crate and lexan seperating that chamber where my chaeto and L.R. are, then beside it in chamber 2 is my skimmer (I bought it second hand, it's an aquamedic with a secondary pump). Beside that in the same chamber is my return pump. No problems with microbubbles, the skimmer has some sort of box coming out of it and then tubes going back into the water which seem to do a damn good job of destroying any bubbles)
First question, my chaeto isn't growing. Ever since I got it from a friend, it has seemed to shrink and isn't staying in a tight ball (peices are floating away from my refugium nursury and landing on the sponge for my return pump)
I have a light on it for 12 hours at night, and my nitrates are 40 ppm (just finishing my initial cycle)
Any advice on to why this is?
Also the skimmer isn't really pumping a lot of gunk up and over into the cup
I've tried tweaking it, and initially I got about 6 good ounces of green liquid at the beginning of my cycle. Now, nothing. Is this because my water is clean? The nitrates don't support this theory
I have 150 lbs of L.R. (half of it was live, half dead when I started cycle)
And 150 lbs of live sand (same thing, half was live, half dead)
Cycle seems to be finished now, here are parameters
April 15, 2016
PO43 Phosphates 1.0000 ppm
NO2 Nitrites 0.0000 ppm
NO3 Nitrates 40.0000 ppm
Ca2 Calcium 420.0000 ppm
KH Carbonate Hardness 125.3000 ppm
pH Potential Hydrogen 8.0000 pH
Any idea why my phosphates are still so high?
I only use the finest RO/DI, 0ppm
I'm going to do a 25% water change today
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Regards
I have a 125g reef tank with a 40g sump underneath
I've enclosed pictures
The DT is drilled, and a pipe feeds the water down to my sump / refugium
I have a filter sock catching the water from the DT, and my fuge is in that same chamber. I have egg crate and lexan seperating that chamber where my chaeto and L.R. are, then beside it in chamber 2 is my skimmer (I bought it second hand, it's an aquamedic with a secondary pump). Beside that in the same chamber is my return pump. No problems with microbubbles, the skimmer has some sort of box coming out of it and then tubes going back into the water which seem to do a damn good job of destroying any bubbles)
First question, my chaeto isn't growing. Ever since I got it from a friend, it has seemed to shrink and isn't staying in a tight ball (peices are floating away from my refugium nursury and landing on the sponge for my return pump)
I have a light on it for 12 hours at night, and my nitrates are 40 ppm (just finishing my initial cycle)
Any advice on to why this is?
Also the skimmer isn't really pumping a lot of gunk up and over into the cup
I've tried tweaking it, and initially I got about 6 good ounces of green liquid at the beginning of my cycle. Now, nothing. Is this because my water is clean? The nitrates don't support this theory
I have 150 lbs of L.R. (half of it was live, half dead when I started cycle)
And 150 lbs of live sand (same thing, half was live, half dead)
Cycle seems to be finished now, here are parameters
April 15, 2016
PO43 Phosphates 1.0000 ppm
NO2 Nitrites 0.0000 ppm
NO3 Nitrates 40.0000 ppm
Ca2 Calcium 420.0000 ppm
KH Carbonate Hardness 125.3000 ppm
pH Potential Hydrogen 8.0000 pH
Any idea why my phosphates are still so high?
I only use the finest RO/DI, 0ppm
I'm going to do a 25% water change today
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Regards
