Banned Member...Thread Closed!!
- Thread starter spazz
- Start date
- Status
spazz
New member
ya it will be interesting to see how many fish he gets in for the first stocking. it should fill his 600 gallon holding tank very well. the big problem will be dividing up the fish so they don't fight while there in the smaller tank. I do know he has talked about putting sections into that tank so the fish well be separated. but I don't know how well that will work. it all depends on how many fish are introduced to the 600 g holding tank at once. and how long they will be in there for. there is still a lot I don't know and will need to talk to bill about so I am getting my facts straight. bill tries to weigh out everything before implementing a plan of attack. things will change as the system progresses. so for now anything I say may change down the road. so please bare with me and any mistakes I make in reporting about this magnificent tank. i'm just the messenger. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Family Reefer
New member
This is a unbelievable thread. Thank you Spazz for the time and updates. It keeps us Newbies excited to graduate to the big leagues.
So what is he doing with his old set-up? Is he going to keep it or sell it?
So what is he doing with his old set-up? Is he going to keep it or sell it?
Tigger240
New member
spazz im very interested in why the quarinten (see i cant sp either) skimmer is using a counter current method of introducing new water to the skimmer. on this design doesnt it make the air rated water (im assuming the water injection willl be below the foam line) more turbulent, something you were trying to avoid, hence the bubble diffusor? any insight on this? i can see where this would help process the tank water through the cc method and then again through the nw and air injection so it would be kinda the best of both worlds, but i thought the air water being stable was were it was at.
roushboy2857
New member
Hmmm money well spend on a skimmer
Reefer_Jester
New member
anymore Pics of the house yet i getting so itchy want to see more PICS
:jester:
:jester:
spazz
New member
well bill decided he didnt like the amount of skimmate he was getting so he did some expermenting. it turns out it increased the skimmate by making it run counter current. it pulled alot of skimmate by puttingthe wate into the pumps and running it through the diffuser but making it counter current pulls even more. the turbulance inside the skimmer are minimal. the best way to describe it is like this.
all the water has to go through millions of bubbles before it can reach the bottom of the skimmer. that would be like trying to ga against the flow of rush hour traffic. your not going to get there real fast. so its increasing dwell time and being mixed around inside the main chamber. bill did a test one time with some food coloring. he injected food coloring into the intake pump that feeds the skimmer. it took 15 mins for the skmmer to clear up. so that gives a good indication of how long the water really dwells in the skimmer. the longer the water can be inside the skimmer the cleaner it wil be when it exits the skimmer. alot of that has to do with bombardment rate also. you need to have a high air to water ratio in order to clean the water properly. so to do that you need tones of super fine bubbles.
Tigger240
New member
hey spazz i actually got an idea while "trying to keep an open mind" lol - if you capped off the elbow thats pointed towards the bubble diffusor and then drilled holes around the circumference that were in quanity and in size to support the flow of water to the skimmer. this would force the new water across in a thin sheet instead of a downward like tube. it may help with turblence and also dwell time, but im sure it probably splitting hairs and not make too much of a difference, if at all. the thinking behind it is that the new bubbles would tear into the new water more evenly and throughly because of the even disfussion of the new water into the diameter (instead of height) skimmer body, but i already see some holes in my idea, the water is forced into the central part of the skimmer, where the bubbles are most likely in highest percentages. just a thought - also is bill still using flexible needles or has he switched over to stiff ones?
original-reefland
Reefer
Just to clarify, that food coloring was just a test to see how long it took to get the colored water diluted in the skimmer. It had nothing to do with the skimmer actually removing the food coloring, right?
- Status
Similar threads
