setup help - Page 3

Willow · #21 07-06-2005, 05:01 PM

or you light it 24/7.

if your leaving your tank alone for weeks at a time i suspect you have bigger issues than pruning your macros every once and awhile. just an fyi, that’s all i use for my filtration is a big fuge with a micron bag. with all the macro's i have i prune them once every 2 weeks or so. i have never once in 4 years had an issue with macro blocking my return pump because there are baffles between the fuge and the return. i also keep them lit 24/7 and as muck has said cheato cant go sexual and basically grows in a tight ball.

Johnny Reefer · #22 07-06-2005, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by muck

unless you use chaeto..

Okay, but I still see a risk of the return pump becoming clogged, which was the original reason for not going fuge.

And sorry for hijacking this thread. It just kinda evolved that way.

Cheers,

Willow · #23 07-06-2005, 05:14 PM

it might be hard to see but behind the upright are a few baffles, there is no way any macro is going to get thru that and then past gutter screen to block the return pump.

Johnny Reefer · #24 07-06-2005, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Willow

if your leaving your tank alone for weeks at a time i suspect you have bigger issues... ... i have never once in 4 years had an issue with macro blocking my return pump because there are baffles between the fuge and the return....

1. bigger issues ? What do you mean?

2. So do you have filter material stuffed between the baffles?

Cheers,

Johnny Reefer · #25 07-06-2005, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Willow

it might be hard to see but behind the upright are a few baffles, there is no way any macro is going to get thru that and then past gutter screen to block the return pump.

Yes it is hard to see. I take it the flow is from left to right? So the upright you mention is the vertical glass the water is going over on the right? I can't make out the gutter screen. Is it visible?

Cheers,