degibson84
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ya my wife will not let me remove the carpet we just put that in when we moved in this past summer
220 Gallon build
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ya my wife will not let me remove the carpet we just put that in when we moved in this past summer
degibson84
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ok i know i have been away for a while but im redy to plug everything in but the lights.
stand level
plumbing
scaping
the only thing i am worried about is the overflow box. I went with the eshopps pf-1200. I am worried about how high the water will run on the teeth of the box. Will i be able to control this with the ball valve on my pump?
stand level
plumbing
scaping
the only thing i am worried about is the overflow box. I went with the eshopps pf-1200. I am worried about how high the water will run on the teeth of the box. Will i be able to control this with the ball valve on my pump?
degibson84
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ok so system has been up and running and I am very confused. The water level in the sump fluctuates so bad. one day the water level is just at the water level mark. the next day it is under the mark and it isn't evaporation, SG stayed the same.
this led me to believe the pump was running faster than the overflow could handle and i did notice a slight increase in water height in the DT. I closed the ball valve just a bit to try and slow it down. Left for about 7 hours and came back and the water level is yet again about an inch lower in the sump. If i cut the pump back any lower then i start getting air bubbles in the U-tube.
What in the world am i doing wrong????
this led me to believe the pump was running faster than the overflow could handle and i did notice a slight increase in water height in the DT. I closed the ball valve just a bit to try and slow it down. Left for about 7 hours and came back and the water level is yet again about an inch lower in the sump. If i cut the pump back any lower then i start getting air bubbles in the U-tube.
What in the world am i doing wrong????
degibson84
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ok i know it has been a while but i figured i would post up a pic of the tank.
degibson84
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Here is my Scrubber which has since been tied up to hang level
degibson84
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man there is just no one following along anymore
ReefApprentice
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Im still following but I don't know much about filtration.
degibson84
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awaiting my CUC from reefs2go.com. debating on buying a goby for sifting through the sand. My LFS always has diamond gobies but i would prefer a small conch if possible. I haven't been able to find them online anywhere
degibson84
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I have all the plumbing/water level issues finally worked out. as far as adding more rock i dont think i want to. The picture makes the tank look very empty but when you are looking at the tank it looks much fuller than the pic shows. I also have a large piece of live rock in the sump. I am not sure of the actual weight of the rock but the entire left side of the tank is very mature LR that was transferred over from my 75. i would like to say there is around 100lbs of live and around 100-125 dry
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Your thread... getting a lot of views, sometimes I think many members follow, but just don't post much
Replies: 130
Views: 2,665
here one way... to get more following... visit some other threads & give out some likes
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I love your tank !!!
Boo! I'm going to be the voice of reason here... GET THE GOBY! They're cool... because I said so. That's reasonable, right?
j/kI have a watchman goby and he isn't digging at all because my rock structure has so many caves. He just bounces around between them. Though, sometimes I see him grab a mouthful of sand to chew on.
degibson84
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Boo! I'm going to be the voice of reason here... GET THE GOBY! They're cool... because I said so. That's reasonable, right?
I have a watchman goby and he isn't digging at all because my rock structure has so many caves. He just bounces around between them. Though, sometimes I see him grab a mouthful of sand to chew on.
my luck he will throw sand over all my corals once i add them in
Noaconstrictor
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I have a pink luthers goby and a dusky jawfish. Both sift sand and throw it. Its cool to watch only ever bothered one of my frags and I just moved it. I say get it. It's neat to watch then perch on their "foot"
degibson84
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last weekend I bought a small rock that had to be split to transport down to me. One piece had one mushroom and the other had zoas and 3 mushrooms. As I was feeding the tank today I noticed 2 small aiptasia nems on the larger rock with only one shroom. So I reached in and pulled the rock out and took a dremel to cut the mushroom off. I put the new smaller piece back in the tank but now I am afraid that I am doomed.
what do you guys think?
what do you guys think?
degibson84
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tried a sweet tiger goby and even though i had the tank screen off around the top he found a way to jump on to the top glass and got a very crispy suntan. I am not sure I can keep a conch in my tank since I have a Green Spotted puffer. He seems to go after all my snails
sorry to hear about the jumper
degibson84
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He was a beautiful fish he made a nice little burrow under a rock and was starting to eat frozen and i came home from work to find him sun bathing. I am imagining that the puffer startled him. I really need to get rid of the puffer but my wife wont let me.
Just because you saw a few doesn't mean your doomed. They pop up in all of our tanks every now and then. The trick is to be vigilant and not to let them take over.