SCIFI_3D_zoo
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Do you have to make up some water sometimes... once a year at least?... to account for any evaporation, salt-creep... thus causing a drop in salinity.
Whatever it is it does not look like one of the high-end skimmers that TOTM's usually have.. ones that end up being the back-bone of filtration for their system. There is a little bit of a language barrier I guess. Earlier I thought you said you did have a "fake" skimmer... just the housing with bio-balls in it. So it's a skimmer, generic one I guess, and there are bio-balls that are under water in the bottom of the skimmer? My old wet/dry they were suspended in the air with water dripping over them. I think I threw all that stuff away years ago. I have AquaC skimmer and it's not very good. I'd rank it average.
Last time I saw something this colorful was a Zeovit system.. and those are very high maintenance. Add drops of this and that every day, every other day. Ridiculous. I've been messing with Prodibio but it has not made anything great happen on it's own. I have flow and lighting problems though.
SO.. you have 2 half cone skimmers... top right one is the bio-ball one and other bottom one is acting like a real skimmer? Bio-balls only in one?
One thing you don't have are some Refugium pics. WOW.. looks like your ceramic and gromax stuff is just put in a tupperware plastic bowl. It's so simple it's almost insane. Just throw it in there... throw some bio-balls in skimmer... done. Those red plastic bowls... what is below that? Another DSB?
Maybe Randy or somebody could do a full analysis on your "mountain water" but I seriously doubt it has anything to do with it. Discussing it with other people here and they all have crazy ideas like .. some mountain goat must be urinating in the water, some special chemical, etc. NAH. Your water is either 0 TDS or very low TDS... and nothing else special.. but I'd still be interested in a test. BY the way... you have a Rowaphos reactor just to house BIO-BALLs right? You are NOT using GFO or other media like that to remove metals, or phosphates right?
@jadendo... thank you for your compliment...jadendo WOW...WOW...WOW!!! I am such a big fan of the no WC. However this is extreme! I could never figure out how such a simple system is so successful.
Letter2No... Would you be so kind and show us your dosing routine, please..
Also for my education, please tell me the generic form of these addictives and where I can find them..
Calcium Cloride (???)
Magnisium Cloride/Sulfate (???)
Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate (Baking soda..yes i know this one)
Thank you so much... You are my idol!
@haksar... thank you. really? but you should travel to Jogjakarta by plane and by bus to go to Magelang.Haksar Stunning tank,I was there in Jakarta a few days back.Wish I had seen your TOTM thread earlier I would have been lucky to have a glimpse of your tank.
ehmm +/- 20 cm from the water.fewponds How high is located LED lamp over the water surface?
ehmm +/- 20 cm from the water.
@Fernando, i don't install Cree but use luxeon led.Hey Letter2no !!
By the way do you CREE Leds lights installed ??
Regards
Fernando Chang
@Nunny... do you use DSB in your main tank?Nunny your tank looks great. i'm very new to the hobby and my tank is being taken over by red algee, how did you get rid of it in your orginal tank?