AP24 questions

[scubaD]

I am in progress setting up an Aquapod 24 gallon HQI 150. First off the tank is only just a tad over 20 gallons total volume. I don't know where they get 24 from. There are only 2 compartments behind the false wall. Is that normal. My friend has an AP12 and his has 4 compartments. In mine On one side is he overflow and on the other the return. I currently have both sponges that came with it stuffed down the overflow side. The back is also beveled in a way that the space before the dividider in the back is very narrow. I have a MaxiJet1200 with the intake screen on it attached to the back wall because I couldn't get the big suction cup frame to fit on the bottom back there. This takes up most of the other side. Before I knew I would only have 2 compartments and was thinking 4 I was planning on sponges in the first, live rock rubble in the second, cheato in the third, and the return in the fourth. Now with only two I am not sure what I can do. What do you do.

We just put our substrate in last night. Have the salinity adjusted. Planning live rock this weekend.

Thank you for your input.

David

 

[HAMsmith]

The 24 normally comes with 2 chambers. Currently I run a mj1200 and thermo in the return side and filtration in the skim side. I've messed around with the types of filtration and currently I run some of the stock sponge plus floss plus carbon. In the bottom of the skim chamber I have some live rock rubble.

In the future I will be adding a submersible light and chaeto to the skim side as a mini-refugium.

Good luck!

 

[noschmo]

Four chambers in the Nano. Sounds like someone "liberated" one of your chambers. That said, good luck David.