Grizz's 8' shallow sea

[The Grizz]

Well the tank has been running now for 12 hrs now and still seeing micro bubbles coming out of the returns and I am still baffled as to what is causing it.

[belzebuth]

I also had this problem when setting up the tank... I could not figure out where the microbubbles came from, then we found out tiny pin holes in some of the plumbing.

[lockrookie]

time to bring out the duct tape i hope its not all of the plumbing but you could try wrapping it a bit at a time and see if that is what it is im not sure what else you could do

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by lockrookie

time to bring out the duct tape i hope its not all of the plumbing but you could try wrapping it a bit at a time and see if that is what it is im not sure what else you could do

There really is not that much plumbing to check for the return, the duct tape was exactly what I was thinking

[The Grizz]

Well i found the air leak with a little help from Terry (marine apprentice) & Josh (bauder1986). It was a very small leak in the bulkhead nipple connected to the union on the feed side of the return pump. So now the tank is nice and clear, no more micro bubble's.

Here are a few pic's, have not finished the rock work yet but have tested all my water parameter's and everything is 100%. It really helped that 80% of the water in the new tank was from the old tank and the rock went from the old tank directly to the temp tank and then to the new tank.



Only one skimmer running at the moment as the feed pump that I was given with the tank make a lot of noise and need to get a new one. Also going to put in my PhosBan Reactor's tomorrow. Only one set of light's are on the tank, once I get every thing back into the tank I will move the other light, change a few bulb's and set the timer's.

[kien]

very nice :-) That sure is a heck of a lot of buckets!!

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by kien

very nice :-) That sure is a heck of a lot of buckets!!

That is only half of the bucket's I have.