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09-28-2010, 05:30 AM
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awesome Tony, so if it took almost two years to get water in it. How long before live rock/livestock ?
 
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09-28-2010, 07:37 AM
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09-28-2010, 07:41 AM
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If you are going open aquascaping then get some sand for sure.
if you doing a wall style, like the old berlin tanks. then maybe not sand. I have a horseshoe crab, 6 nass snails, and a sandsfiter star, at night you can see them burrowing around, like bugs bunny in the retro cartoons. I do help them abit at the ends of the tank. Its really worth it though.
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09-28-2010, 07:45 AM
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Might not be quite a zen-ish as yours but I am thinking islands. Have a slightly different vision in mind but we'll see if I can translate concept into reality, I'm not very artistic.
A horseshoe crab?! Wow. I always thought they were something of a no-no but now that I think of it, I have no idea why. Maybe for fear they'll knock things over? I don't really know much about their captive care. Ever thought about tiger tail cukes? I had some for a while but it occurs to me it's been a lonnggg time since I seen any, maybe they kicked off some time ago and I just never noticed. They did a pretty good job of pooping out clean sand though.
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09-28-2010, 08:07 AM
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I am using the aragamax select. its not too big and not too small. the horseshoe crab do get large, 24in large, but i think that it will take sometime to get that big, I have had him since the start of the tank and i barely see him. I wish for one of those donkey cucumbers, i think he would do a great job. Didnt see any around though for along time.
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09-28-2010, 07:43 AM
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Not sure why but I actually get faster than 75 gpd out of mine. It is reading 0 tds so I don't question it.
Get a few powerheads in the tank so you can mix salt already!
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09-28-2010, 07:50 AM
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Maybe your RO/DI is 100gpd membrane? Or you have higher inlet pressure? You're right, with a TDS of zero .., just run with it and be happy.  I'm getting zero right now but it's all new prefilters and new DI. The RO is outputting steady at around 7. Not the best membrane I ever owned, the one before this one had a much better rejection rate or whatever the term is, it was almost always zero except for the first half hour or so. My DI lasted much longer on that membrane .. until the membrane went that is.
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09-28-2010, 08:08 AM
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I use the Dow Filmtec 75 gpd. And yeah used to get me 0 - 1 TDS out of the membrane only but these days 5-6 for 5g fills...can drop lower if I'm running it longer.
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09-28-2010, 03:52 PM
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Wow have I missed alot lately ! Its really great to see how much you have accomplished. Everything is looking awesome. I remember that skimmer of Johnathon's, she is a beast but worked well. Have you seen or heard from him lately ? On the sand topic I'm glad you decided to add some. With a large tank I think it looks so much better and allows you to go with a much more open arrangement (like Johns). Keep up the good work.
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