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10-08-2010, 12:52 AM
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thanks Lance...I was actually really surprised how porous it is...TONS of small holes and swim throughs etc...and for 65lbs there was a crap load of nice sized rocks next to no rubble.
Brett it's all Key Largo dried rock...going to grab a cup or so of live sand from a LFS in the area and away we go!
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10-08-2010, 07:16 PM
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so yeah, no big deal...the pumps are running. A customer here who is a plumber said if more gph were going through the pipe than dripping the leak would get "sucked in" enough to stop the drip and I could glue it while the tank was running. Totally worked.
Lights should be here in a couple days!
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10-08-2010, 09:32 PM
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Interesting. I would have thought that because the water was being lifted that it wouldn't so much suck in, as push out. Unless it was on the suction side of the pump?
Well whatever the explanation that's awesome that it did the trick.
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10-08-2010, 09:51 PM
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Quote:
Huh! Learn something new everyday. Have to remember that.
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10-08-2010, 09:55 PM
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I was a little nervous about it too...but the guy swore by it...so we tried it and it did! gotta be on an OUTGOING pump though...not a drain pump. Don't ask me why, cause I don't have the slightest clue...
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10-08-2010, 09:58 PM
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having said that. The tank is still cloudy as all hell and I have to wait to get some filter socks....so got a couple of those nylon bags and filled em full of polyfiber. Slowly getting there. Got the tank up to a nice 80* and sg is 1.025 on the button....so got the current skimmer running which should help as well...
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10-09-2010, 04:32 PM
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still a little cloudy...but you get the idea:
 Top down of the right hand side of the tank, trying to show the little cove:  Top down of the left hand side of the tank 
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10-10-2010, 03:30 PM
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fired up the closed loop, works like a dream. With the two pumps and the small heater I'm maintaining a steady 80* reading. SG is 1.025...forgot to bring in some raw scallop yesterday and today is a day off, so tomorrow we'll start the cycle. Scallop and a cup or so of sand from an established tank should do the trick.
Also ordered two TLF reactors, going to run one with carbon and one with Rowa-phos or something similar. Question...should a maxijet 1200 be enough flow to daisy chain the two reactors together??? Rowaphos in the first one, carbon in the other? or should I look at two separate pumps.... This low budget tank is officially breaking me.
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