Thinking of Starting up a bubble tip dominant tank
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I kind of messed up my goal and added a magnifica yesterday
If I could track down as many nice anemones as you seem to be able to I'd have a hard time controlling myself as well.
Ad Meliora
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Any way you can do a closed loop system instead? I get enough flow just from running my return through one of those duck-billed flow enductors. Never have to worry about an anemone in the powerhead now and it feels great.
Ad Meliora
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Also, if you want some inspiration check this thread from our Australian forums.
http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=144&t=262627&start=60
http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=144&t=262627&start=60
nemguy
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That's a great idea I turned off the power head and just theft to 2 return pumps running and everything seems really happy even the magnifica I also have the uv running and a small canister but there's no suction from that due to the giant internal sponge on the inside of the intake here's a video of the flow just from the pumps on the magnifica with the nighte lights on https://vimeo.com/172546620 this is the tank I keep in my room because I just love it so much!
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nemguy
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Woo @nemguy I'm going to keep updated
Thanks I'll keep it updated I want to see if I can find a trigger or a factor that prevents the bubble tips from losing the bubbles maybe keeping a super bright 250 watt halide and 96 watts of t5s will keep the bubbles or maybe it has to do with the flow or most likely that if they are hungry maybe they are just extending their tentacles for more food ?
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Where is your CL intake? Or do you mean your sump return?
It's been suggested in other threads that anemones are just as likely to be damaged by contact with a CL intake as they are with a PH. I have a hard time seeing that, but have thought that the flow patterns provided by the PH were beneficial enough that it made them worth any extra risk. But if all that fancy controllable flow is really more for me than for them I'd take a CL system any day over my old MP10's.
Beautiful tank in that link...
nemguy
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It's a Red Sea max 130d with the upgraded pumps the magnifica was all over the overflow of the tank but the intake is well designed and did no damage to the settling mag I just ordered a pair of bonded midnights arriving today and a new 17 gallon rimless tank for them on Amazon! I want to try and see if I can make another nem tank out of that and experiment with the flow
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What kind of turnover would you estimate those pumps provide?
I just ordered a pair of bonded midnights arriving today and a new 17 gallon rimless tank for them on Amazon! I want to try and see if I can make another nem tank out of that and experiment with the flow
You, sir, are in need of serious professional help. J/K, any idea what you'll be doing for flow & lighting? Please continue to post the results of your experiments!
nemguy
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What kind of turnover would you estimate those pumps provide?
Im not sure I'll have to check
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Ad Meliora
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I'm not sure on the correct terms, I just have an overflow to my sump on one side and a return from my sump to the tank on the other side, coming out of an enductor like this http://www.guppysaquariumproducts.com.au/water-circulation-equipment/enductor-out-flow-loc-line/1-2-inch-15mm-duck-billed-enductor-out-flow-system.html"]
What's a CL intake? Maybe I misunderstood what CL means, I thought it was just where all the flow comes from the returning water from the sump.
My tank is shallow and not that big, but if it was bigger I would just run two returns or tee it off, I've seen enductors that connect to one bulk head and then tee themselves off with a Y tee so you wouldn't lose too much flow from a T shaped tee. I'm setting up propagation tub at the moment, so I'll see how the closed loop goes in a much bigger system.
As for the random flow, I have thought about that for my new setup. If I wanted to do it in an anemone system I'd probably rather look at something like a sea-swirl, which runs your return through an oscilating enductor. They are around $200+ which is a bit much for me, but is not much compared to some powerheads. I've had no noticeable problems with the unidirectional flow, but hard to say what benefits I might be missing. I tend to just swivel the enductor to face a different direction every now and again. Those enductors really accelerate the flow though, so mine blasts things if I'm not careful. I essentially point it into the far corner, and it seems to get some variation in flow around the tank but definitely not anything like when I used to run powerheads.
Sorry for the long reply. Basically, I think I'm never going back to powerheads on an anemone tank! :lmao:
nemguy
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Yeah power heads suck I had a beautiful 14 inch purple base bubble tip get ripped to shreds and lost all his tentacles and got his food severs nearly in half but thankfully I've been able to keep up with water changes 10 gallons a day in a 35 gallon and it's been a month and he's looking a lot better no more tears and slowly growing tentacles back the rest of the new nems seem to be settling in fine and gettig bigger every day the magnifica in the tank is doing great! I originally thought the store had him for a month but it turns out he came in that day he hasn't even been in captivity for a week and he's doing amazing here's a vid of all the nems 20k halide sorry for the messed up colors camera can never get the true color https://vimeo.com/172883075
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gunther13mt
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how do you guys place your nems so they don't move around your tank I have a condy that settled in the back of my tank and you cant see him I want to move him to the front where he will be visible.
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