MiddletonMark's 58 [photo-heavy]
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Uncle Luke
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Absolutely gorgeous pics!! Great job
MiddletonMark
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Thank you all for the kind words.
I upgraded from a Remora Pro around the time I went BB. Whether from rock-shedding, die-off from interceptor treatment around the same time, or learning to run a BB system + get flow right ... I had nutrients for the first few months running it. Bi-weekly glass cleaning, some macro on the rocks, mediocre results for a few months.
But given a few months, a few tweaks - and I watched that algae disappear ... and about this time last year the tank colored and grew like never before.
I get a lot of particulate in the skimmate, esp if run wet. It's not as dark of skimmate as I've gotten with other skimmers - but as the results are what I want, I quit being hung up on skimmate color.
It was difficult to make the bubble/frogspawn happy with both ... and while I very much liked the eductor's results, I wanted 6 months without a giant nozzle as part of the display
And the shadow it casts ... 58's are great for lack of center brace - yet the eductor almost did the same.
Given my turbelle just set off some alarm on Friday morning [always best to start the workday by talking a freaked-out wife through the jumble of cords to get the wailing to please stop :lmao:]. It looks like this afternoon I will be replacing that with something until I can fix it - maybe a Seio, maybe just re-eductor for a bit.
I love it. It's not the most electrically efficient, and it took me a while to really learn to tweak it, have it close to `set and forget'.Wooden Nickel said:
I upgraded from a Remora Pro around the time I went BB. Whether from rock-shedding, die-off from interceptor treatment around the same time, or learning to run a BB system + get flow right ... I had nutrients for the first few months running it. Bi-weekly glass cleaning, some macro on the rocks, mediocre results for a few months.
But given a few months, a few tweaks - and I watched that algae disappear ... and about this time last year the tank colored and grew like never before.
I get a lot of particulate in the skimmate, esp if run wet. It's not as dark of skimmate as I've gotten with other skimmers - but as the results are what I want, I quit being hung up on skimmate color.
Rob - I removed it probably 4 months ago, when I substituted a Tunze 6060 in for a Seio 820.Ewan said:
It was difficult to make the bubble/frogspawn happy with both ... and while I very much liked the eductor's results, I wanted 6 months without a giant nozzle as part of the display
And the shadow it casts ... 58's are great for lack of center brace - yet the eductor almost did the same.
Given my turbelle just set off some alarm on Friday morning [always best to start the workday by talking a freaked-out wife through the jumble of cords to get the wailing to please stop :lmao:]. It looks like this afternoon I will be replacing that with something until I can fix it - maybe a Seio, maybe just re-eductor for a bit.
gman0526
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Had to dig up your thread Mark because I have a question. If I'm not mistaken there where some pics somewhere where you had the eggcrate structure visible, am I right? If I am do you still have those pictures I'm thinking about redoing my tank's aquascape since I'm getting some detritus build up under the LR no matter how i tweak my flow and could use some ideas. TY
Ereefic
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I'm pretty sure the eggcrate that your thinking of was his frag rack. I don't believe he has his rocks elevated off the bottom.
What i've done is just make some racks out of PVC and eggcrate. Drill 2 holes at the top of the PVC and then zip tie them to eggcrate. Easy racks to make and totally customizable. HTH
What i've done is just make some racks out of PVC and eggcrate. Drill 2 holes at the top of the PVC and then zip tie them to eggcrate. Easy racks to make and totally customizable. HTH
MiddletonMark
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Ereefic's right ... I've only used the eggcrate for frag-racks.
Which I tend to do once/twice a year ... handy to cut frags, have space for them right in-tank for a month to encrust and start growing.
But I haven't done an eggcrate structure in this tank ... next tank
Hardly enough room in this one, IMO.
Which I tend to do once/twice a year ... handy to cut frags, have space for them right in-tank for a month to encrust and start growing.
But I haven't done an eggcrate structure in this tank ... next tank
Hardly enough room in this one, IMO.
MiddletonMark
Premium Member
Better take some more pics, post them up this week.
Going to be taking the bubble coral to my basement tub for fragmentation ... and then get to re-aquascape and re-arrange the flow/corals just a bit
Playtime!
Going to be taking the bubble coral to my basement tub for fragmentation ... and then get to re-aquascape and re-arrange the flow/corals just a bit
Playtime!
photobarry
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I missed this the first go around. Looks great!
MiddletonMark
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Thanks folks 
Monkey - I run a 20 tall as sump.
Have a heater and my PM Bullet2 skimmer in the sump. No 'fuge, no PO4/other media.
Have run a UV most of the time in the last year - and while I took it down for my vacation [less complexity for tank-sitter] ... I'll be hooking it back up due to the impression that it was helping.
Monkey - I run a 20 tall as sump.
Have a heater and my PM Bullet2 skimmer in the sump. No 'fuge, no PO4/other media.
Have run a UV most of the time in the last year - and while I took it down for my vacation [less complexity for tank-sitter] ... I'll be hooking it back up due to the impression that it was helping.
MyMonkey
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Hmmm... No fuge? i was planning on using a 20 gallon Long as a sump/fuge. But, it barely fits underneath. Leaves me with 5 inches or so on the end for "fish stuff". If I forgoe the fuge I can get a way with the 10 gallon I have. I suppose I will stick with the 20L and use a fuge. I apprently need it as i have hair algae and nasties in there now.
MiddletonMark
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Well, the tank is run barebottom - so the whole method aims mostly at getting stuff to the skimmer for rapid export vs. 'fuge for biomass-soakup/export.
When I had substrate, I ran a small 'fuge in the sump ... but when I went BB I upgraded the skimmer, had no space for it, and eventually [IMO] no need for it.
When I had substrate, I ran a small 'fuge in the sump ... but when I went BB I upgraded the skimmer, had no space for it, and eventually [IMO] no need for it.
