flower's build ??

[d-man]

I was planning on doing lower flow in the small tank and higher flow in the bigger tank. I guess the key would be making sure the water mixes well in the return area.

 

[al&burke]

Yes - that would correspond to the flow required in the fuge. Let's see what the others say with bellies full of turkey.

 

[d-man]

I guess at this point I should start looking at protein skimmers so that I know how much room to make for it. I really don't have much to start on at this point and any suggestions would be appreciated.It can be tall but it can't be more than 10in wide.

 

[al&burke]

In Flowers build they picked the Oct XP1000 - the largest dimension is 9.5" - google it you might be able to get the next size down. Once everything is picked out I can put a drawing together.

 

[d-man]

cool I really appreciate that, I'm not so good at drawing a straight line with a ruler

. I'll check out the skimmer. Do you know if it makes much noise? I guess I should ask Flower that lol. I would really like things to be as quiet as I can make them.

 

[d-man]

After reading more I'm now considering putting in a turf scrubber and sticking with my protein skimmers. I like to feed a lot and would like to keep as much food in my tank as I can, so I'm thinking to go with more biological and less mechanical filtration.

 

[al&burke]

I am going to try one as well, first on my goldfish tank.

 

[d-man]

I decided the turf scrubber is not going in the sump, but will be on it's own. I now understand a little more about how to set up the flow control into the fuge with a ball valve while the remaining flow gos into the return section, just not exactly how to do it in the space I have while being able to get at it. Any one have any reason I might want to get into my fuge once it's set up? I'm not planning on putting macro in it or light on it, also how deep should the sand be? I don't have the room to do a deep bed like Flower, so I hope that 2in or so will be enough. What would be better more rock less sand or more sand less rock?. I'm looking for food more than filtration out of my fuge because hopefully the ATS I'm going to make will handle the bio load. I like the idea of being able to control my flow in the tanks and fuge independently of each other, so I'm going to keep working on how to make it so. I'm wondering what people think of a fuge that would be square with a divider in the middle for flow control. So it would be something like 26L and 20W with a divider making it so the water would flow in one side that would be 10x22 or so with 4in open in the other end and then come back on the other side allowing me to have the in flow and out flow on the same side of my fuge, but still have a constant flow from all going the same way.

 

[santamonica]

After reading more I'm now considering putting in a turf scrubber and sticking with my protein skimmers. I like to feed a lot and would like to keep as much food in my tank as I can, so I'm thinking to go with more biological and less mechanical filtration.

Once you remove the skimmer, you will have a much much larger amount of food particles in the water, that you will see floating around. Just like in the ocean.

 

[acrylic51]

Flower here's a little something to wet your appetite and a toy for your skimmer.....Might interest Meowzer as well......
http://www.reefspecialty.com/virtuemart/12-protein-skimmers/65-super-reef-octopus/149-sro--xp-automatic-head-cleaners.html

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by acrylic51 http:///forum/thread/382036/flower-s-build/20#post_3358188
Flower here's a little something to wet your appetite and a toy for your skimmer.....Might interest Meowzer as well......
http://www.reefspecialty.com/virtuemart/12-protein-skimmers/65-super-reef-octopus/149-sro--xp-automatic-head-cleaners.html
LOL....very interesting.....when I empty the cup...I clean the inside of the skimmer neck with a papertowel...works for me

 

[acrylic51]

It could cut your skimmer down time a bit between cleanings....I wonder how well the squeegees hold up on the wiper? I have seen some DIY cleaning heads, but always have seemed to have issues with them holding up.

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by acrylic51 http:///forum/thread/382036/flower-s-build/20#post_3358191
It could cut your skimmer down time a bit between cleanings....I wonder how well the squeegees hold up on the wiper? I have seen some DIY cleaning heads, but always have seemed to have issues with them holding up.
I miss my skimmer

Tracking shows they got the part, but being the weekend, I have not heard anything yet......

 

[gemmy]

I should take a pic of the skimmer at my work and a video of the "foam fractionator" at work. The skimmer is at least 6 feet tall. (The neck cleaner reminded me of it). I miss working on the fish systems at my job.