Would you turn OFF your skimmer

[2_zoa]

All organisms benefit from the wave box, not just the LPS. The back and forth movement helps to bring food to the organism and give it a chance to capture the food before the flow reverses.


Sorry if I missed it. How much flow are you running through the sump for the skimmer? Have you thought about running less flow to the skimmer giving the food more time in the display.

 

[marinemanohio]

I love the idea of natural filtration, so following along. By the way, your macro tank is sweet!

 

[Mudbeaver]

All organisms benefit from the wave box, not just the LPS. The back and forth movement helps to bring food to the organism and give it a chance to capture the food before the flow reverses.


Sorry if I missed it. How much flow are you running through the sump for the skimmer? Have you thought about running less flow to the skimmer giving the food more time in the display.

The flow is 950gph right now and its slow ah the water is going just right over the overflow not a cascade not a tear either just perfect skimming . I don't want to use a slower one it wont go over lol. Its the same for the refugium.


Besides as i was explaining earlier i do stop the return when i feed and the fish and the corals for a good hour while feeding and an hour after the return has been restarted. I'm always surprise i don't have cyano or other algaes forming but thats because my food is being used up, and skimmed up too quickly lol. Like i said a coast to coast is so efficient you have no idea, until you've tried one. its my second one and their's no comparison to any corner box or central box.

I don't regret the set up one bit, because i have options this way and thats the beauty of it . By the way i skim dry.

Oh something i've done to help with nitrates with a hight nutrience tank, i've put a gorilla crab in my coast to coast over flow with a bit of algaes and a rock.

And when i find bristle worms too stupid to stay hidden i pluck them up and put them in the overflow to eat what ever gets in there. They get fat and eventually they become spaghetti for buddy here .

A perfect recoop of both bristle worms and gorilla crabs. lol and he does the rounds i see him go a move about the 6 foot over flow lol

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[Mudbeaver]

Had you been putting in other live food during that 6 months?

Poisonous to people is not the same as poisonous to fish.

The behavior of the lion fish was very predictable for a predator prey relationship.

I can't explain how the lion lived in tank for 6 months with no food.

When i say poisonous he's poisonous for the lionfish its part of his deffence system as well, anyway your talking about raw Fugu in Japan and its a different subject.

The dwarf lion fish is a night crawler he's a Dendriochrius barberi and i did try all of it.... gosh shrimp you name it, molies, krill, what ever ; every methods he never ate what i presented to him . Dead, frozen, or alive and went into hidding and i though he died long time ago, theory?..... he ate pods its the only way he survived .

I don't know what you find predictable in this but anyway . He came out to surprise me and ate a poisonous fish. lol. Thats what i met life finds a way in my statement , that was an expression of whats going on in are tanks sometime with no rational reasons.​

 

[tanksfishtank]

It is a great source of O2 for your aquarium!

 

[Mudbeaver]

A few new additons to my NPS zone and beyond.

A few new additons to my NPS zone and beyond.

A few new additons to my NPS zone and beyond.


Chili coral

Red sponge with a Parazoanthus parasiticus . Its a single unit of multiple polyps connected by chanel under the sponge's derm. It lives in a symbiotic way sometime not. It catches bigger pieces of food that it transmit to the sponge and helps with its feeding. Its mostly en demic to the Caribbean .

 

[Fredfish]

Hi Chris. Thanks for letting me drop by to see your system. It really is impressive!

Folks. In person, the aquascaping on this tank is stunning. You could sit there for hours staring at the tank. Wait, I did.

 

[Mudbeaver]

Hi Chris. Thanks for letting me drop by to see your system. It really is impressive!

Folks. In person, the aquascaping on this tank is stunning. You could sit there for hours staring at the tank. Wait, I did.

Your welcome it was nice having you and talking all that time its funny how time fly when we're on that subject their's no end about topics and amusements of it, stories and what not, really facinating to exchange experiences. If you every are in the city just phone no problem.

 

[2_zoa]

The flow is 950gph right now and its slow ah the water is going just right over the overflow not a cascade not a tear either just perfect skimming . I don't want to use a slower one it wont go over lol. Its the same for the refugium.


Besides as i was explaining earlier i do stop the return when i feed and the fish and the corals for a good hour while feeding and an hour after the return has been restarted. I'm always surprise i don't have cyano or other algaes forming but thats because my food is being used up, and skimmed up too quickly lol. Like i said a coast to coast is so efficient you have no idea, until you've tried one. its my second one and their's no comparison to any corner box or central box.

I don't regret the set up one bit, because i have options this way and thats the beauty of it . By the way i skim dry.

At that flow rate given your coast to coast has teeth. I'm gonna spit ball and say the water depth going through the teeth is about 3/16-1/4" (4-6mm) deep. Slowing the water flow down would give you much more protein laden surface water for the skimmer to process. Say about 1/8" deep. The water will still flow, haha. Making the really dirty water to be cleaned and very little food leaving the display. You might find that you'd need to feed less this way. If your feeding the refigum from the sump, I can understand your hesitation. Nothing a pump in the external overflow wouldn't remedy though. Or somewhere else even.


Really, I'm just throwing out different ideas to maybe get you to the same place without as much effort. I for one don't like cycling my pumps anymore then I have to. In my experiences, it drastically shortens the pumps lifespan. Also, I've never had any controller to run my tanks so, I've always had to unplug my pumps. Which is a big bummer when you don't remember to plug them back in.