nitrate solution?

[onefishtwofish]

Originally Posted by Myka

I would also suggest a booster pump for the RODI. With nitrates at 20 ppm, that's rather high. Too high. An RODI will need 55 psi I do believe. Packing jugs of water around sucks. It gets old real fast, and you tend to do less water changes because of the effort.

What do you mean your electricity is maxed out? You don't have any room on the sub panel, and the breakers are maxed?

yeah. i paid 4500 to have my electric upgraded . they took out my old 100 amp panel, put in a different 100amp panel. i was led to beleive I had 100 amp service, but the power to the pole and to the house have 60 amps. They told me there was not enough to even put in a wall oven when i took out the stove and put in a counter cook top. the problem is...I have only got room for the set up in the living room..and i already have a 50g, 2x 48g, 29g, 2x33 , 2x20g long a 10g and a 15g running. each have a light and a min of one filter, many two, heaters and air. this system will require 9 plug ins. I am already using my kitchen plug ins to run some of these. mts or what...lol

[onefishtwofish]

lol. my friend says if i buy a ro unit he will kindly allow me to install it at his house and be able to come get the water when ever I need some...such a generous soul...

[BlueAbyss]

Hmm, you only have 60 amp service? That sucks man... you may well have trouble providing enough power for a full reef. If you go FOWLR, you will have much less trouble with this (a lot less light is needed, just enough to see the fish).

Just a thought, any idea how much power you are actually pulling with that many tanks, plus your own use? You might not even have enough power left for a reef...

[onefishtwofish]

yeah...not fair. bad contractor...its gonna be tight. thank goodness there is only 2 of us living here, but i get told off alot when my daughter has to vacuum cause everything in the livingroom and most of the kitchen has fish stuff attached and she is afraid to unplug anything.

I will go fowler and i have decided against the bigger tank and all the ro for now. once i get this contractor into court and hopefully get the money out of him and upgrade to the 100 amps he was to do it too, i will reconsider. thanks every one for the advice. much appreciated.

[BlueAbyss]

Sorry to hear of your plight man. Stuff like that really sucks... hopefully you can get the work out of him!

Have you considered breaking down to less tanks? You do have an awful lot of tanks... and it's likely that when you get a saltwater setup going, you'll want to spend less time doing maintenance on your freshwater setups and spend more time gazing at your slice of ocean.

[onefishtwofish]

Sorry for the late reply. yeah I would love to reduce tanks.....but they keep my mind off the court case and stuff and i love all my tanks as they r so varied. I have a lake malawi, a tanginykin, angel, puffer, demisoni, victorian cichlid , fry growout and 2 mixed tropical/angel. I did buy a biocube 14. i figure i can get away with a fowlr in it without too much draw. Soon i can add the fry to the main tanks and free up a bit of wallspace and outlets as well. I can manage that amount of water storage if I have to as well. I shall not be deterred ...lol

I am disabled and I find having no choice but to maintain the tanks and care for the fish motivate me to get up even when I am hurting because all those little faces r depending on me...lol