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puffer24/7
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we are all entitled to our own opinion and thats fine
puffer24/7
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tangs should never be fat in my opinion, any healthy tang that i have seen including my own have never been fat, just mo though
mitzel
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Originally Posted by jcrim
Mitzel, your tank looks awesome! Where's that garibaldi??? (you should have never told me about it) :joy:
Thanks I really want it but will have to wait. My tank is already kinda heavy on the stock list. And we had a little problem over the last week. Lets just say I have learned My lessons on QT and new fish and buying anything from deathco. COUGH COUGH dogface has ich COUGH COUGH coral beauty had it too and died COUGH COUGH . both from the same *****. But this is not a bashing thread . It was my own fault for not QTn them. I think I caught it before it spreed but I'm keeping a very sharp eye on the tank. The puffer has been in QT for a week and is looking great. And nobody else has showed any symptoms since. Another week or so in QT and he can come back to the 125. He has made serrious improvments while there he is hand feeding with no signs of shyness and has gotten that puffer personality now .
Mitzel, your tank looks awesome! Where's that garibaldi??? (you should have never told me about it) :joy:
Thanks I really want it but will have to wait. My tank is already kinda heavy on the stock list. And we had a little problem over the last week. Lets just say I have learned My lessons on QT and new fish and buying anything from deathco. COUGH COUGH dogface has ich COUGH COUGH coral beauty had it too and died COUGH COUGH . both from the same *****. But this is not a bashing thread . It was my own fault for not QTn them. I think I caught it before it spreed but I'm keeping a very sharp eye on the tank. The puffer has been in QT for a week and is looking great. And nobody else has showed any symptoms since. Another week or so in QT and he can come back to the 125. He has made serrious improvments while there he is hand feeding with no signs of shyness and has gotten that puffer personality now .
squidd
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Originally Posted by mitzel
I already have a power head hooked to a sprayer bar putting out about 250 GPH that is pointed out along the floor of the tank. should I try uping this some?
Thanks for the help squidd.
For a 125 I would suggest 1200 to 1500 ghp total "Goal Flow" for the tank...Some coming from the sump return and the rest made up of "supplemental flow devices such as powerheads (larger ones like seios or tunzee) or a closed loop system...
This is just the "rating or output" of the devices, and does not take into concideration that 24" from the powerhead the water hardly moves at all...
10X in a tank that size (properly spaced or divided) will be just enough to keep the water moving the full volume of the tank and will certainly not "blow your fish around"...
I already have a power head hooked to a sprayer bar putting out about 250 GPH that is pointed out along the floor of the tank. should I try uping this some?
Thanks for the help squidd.
For a 125 I would suggest 1200 to 1500 ghp total "Goal Flow" for the tank...Some coming from the sump return and the rest made up of "supplemental flow devices such as powerheads (larger ones like seios or tunzee) or a closed loop system...
This is just the "rating or output" of the devices, and does not take into concideration that 24" from the powerhead the water hardly moves at all...
10X in a tank that size (properly spaced or divided) will be just enough to keep the water moving the full volume of the tank and will certainly not "blow your fish around"...
puffer24/7
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mitzel just out of curiosity how big is ur qt tank
mitzel
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Squid : I have two pumps in the return from my sump rated - 750 gph that return water at the top of the tank . If I ran one to the spray bar would that help? and then moved the PH to the top of the tank to help with gas exchange ? do you think that might work? also as it is the out put of the PH/spraybar already causes the sand do drift . any suggestions . I'll snap a few pics to show what I mean.
puffer24/7
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would u reccomend my 12 gallon jbj dlx for a qt tank right now i use it for curing my lr but will it work once i have done all of that for when i add new fish to my tank, like a goldenflake or a koran angel
mitzel
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Originally Posted by puffer24/7
would u reccomend my 12 gallon jbj dlx for a qt tank right now i use it for curing my lr but will it work once i have done all of that for when i add new fish to my tank, like a goldenflake or a koran angel
To be honest I couldn't say. I would like to have a bigger set up just for the swiming space. But then adding meds would take more to dose the tank.
Squidd: this is one of the returns from the sump same thing on the other side.
This is the PH that runs the spray bar
This is one of the drifts/trenches cut by the spraybar .
would u reccomend my 12 gallon jbj dlx for a qt tank right now i use it for curing my lr but will it work once i have done all of that for when i add new fish to my tank, like a goldenflake or a koran angel
To be honest I couldn't say. I would like to have a bigger set up just for the swiming space. But then adding meds would take more to dose the tank.
Squidd: this is one of the returns from the sump same thing on the other side.
This is the PH that runs the spray bar
This is one of the drifts/trenches cut by the spraybar .
psusocr1
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im going through on HECK of a time tryign to pisition my powerheads just right os i dont get these drifts im getting, my sand in one spot is abotu a queter inch and in others it is 6 inches...its only happening in the middle and right side of the tank the left is perfectly flat, but thats where my return is(on the left) i might t-out my return and put another return in the right corner also so it might evan the flow out a bit. i have two powerhead hidden in my live rock on the left and the right(one in each corner)..i keep playing with them but no luck, they are rated at almost 1000 gph each i have about 12 times turn over rate, but i think i might beef my return pump up and go with 20...any suggestions?
squidd
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mitzel...With the power head on the bottom feeding the bottom spray bar, your pretty much just moving the bottom layer of water around the bottom...need to get it "mixing" with the upper layer of water...
Perhaps using one of the sump returns as the feed for the spray bar and move the power head near the surface for agitation...:thinking:
psusocr1... I have my closed loop pushing "up" from the bottom with the intake near the surface...(small 45* elbows on bottom)
The other thing for both you guys is to create "larger" more open and voluminous flow rather than the high intensity/pressure "squirts" from the a spray bar hole or power head outlet...
Perhaps using one of the sump returns as the feed for the spray bar and move the power head near the surface for agitation...:thinking:
psusocr1... I have my closed loop pushing "up" from the bottom with the intake near the surface...(small 45* elbows on bottom)
The other thing for both you guys is to create "larger" more open and voluminous flow rather than the high intensity/pressure "squirts" from the a spray bar hole or power head outlet...
puffer24/7
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thanks dude wil be lookin better once i add more rock cant wait
whitey
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Originally Posted by puffer24/7
yea it would be pretty sweet i thought, ecspecially with being how beatiful the blue face is, i truly think it is one of the nicest fishies out there even in the wild, would u agree
Nah, Ive seen much better looking Blue Face Angels. Not worthy of a show fish.
yea it would be pretty sweet i thought, ecspecially with being how beatiful the blue face is, i truly think it is one of the nicest fishies out there even in the wild, would u agree
Nah, Ive seen much better looking Blue Face Angels. Not worthy of a show fish.
space_geek
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Yeah, Puffer, I would have to agree with what Whitey said. I haven't seen any blueface angels before I saw yours, so I thought yours was very nice looking. It is, but quite dull in color for a blueface-definetely not worth the money you spent on him. Check this one out!!!
fedukeford
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adam- what size tank is that?