perfectdark
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Originally Posted by aquaguy24
how dow u keep ur tank so clean looking mine has lot of stuff floating around cuz of my inverts kickin up all the stuff up into the water...
Its all in the timing. You take the pictures when the tank looks best. LOL.
Seriously, I have a lot of current in my tank. Not alot of pressure in the current but alot of volume. The surface of my water aggrigates with the pump out of the back of the biocube. Along with that I angled it so that it pushes the current toward the curved corner of my tank. Then the current gets forced across the front of the glass and makes it to the power head thats on the right side of my tank. That one isnt is strong I tuned it down a bit but it pushes that same current toward the filter and the back of the tank. I dont have it blowing directly at the filter its main goal is to keep good flow behind the LR so I have no dead areas. I can only assume thats why my tank looks so clear. I created this constant current for the main purpose of good flow but if my inverts start to thrash my sand and kick up crap the way things are set up clears up all debris quickly.
The angles and positions of these nozzles took almost 2 weeks to get right. I was crazy trying to triangulate the correct position to make sure I got the best current and the most flow around most of my tank. Other than that, I scrub my glass every 3 days or so, wait about 2 hours then rinse off the sponges in the filter areas so that the algea I took off doesnt get back into the tank. When my big hermits or my flame scallop move they can make quite a large plume of tank debris. Eventually my sponges cant hold any more particulates and they make it through getting back into my tank. It makes it always look like theres a sand sifting monster in my tank. Thats when i know the sponge needs to be rinsed out too. In the begining of setting up my tank I was rinsing the media in the filter areas every day to 2 days because every thing was still so new and there was debris everywhere.
The pictures of your tank dont look bad, I also use a very very high end camera too.
how dow u keep ur tank so clean looking mine has lot of stuff floating around cuz of my inverts kickin up all the stuff up into the water...
Its all in the timing. You take the pictures when the tank looks best. LOL.
Seriously, I have a lot of current in my tank. Not alot of pressure in the current but alot of volume. The surface of my water aggrigates with the pump out of the back of the biocube. Along with that I angled it so that it pushes the current toward the curved corner of my tank. Then the current gets forced across the front of the glass and makes it to the power head thats on the right side of my tank. That one isnt is strong I tuned it down a bit but it pushes that same current toward the filter and the back of the tank. I dont have it blowing directly at the filter its main goal is to keep good flow behind the LR so I have no dead areas. I can only assume thats why my tank looks so clear. I created this constant current for the main purpose of good flow but if my inverts start to thrash my sand and kick up crap the way things are set up clears up all debris quickly.
The angles and positions of these nozzles took almost 2 weeks to get right. I was crazy trying to triangulate the correct position to make sure I got the best current and the most flow around most of my tank. Other than that, I scrub my glass every 3 days or so, wait about 2 hours then rinse off the sponges in the filter areas so that the algea I took off doesnt get back into the tank. When my big hermits or my flame scallop move they can make quite a large plume of tank debris. Eventually my sponges cant hold any more particulates and they make it through getting back into my tank. It makes it always look like theres a sand sifting monster in my tank. Thats when i know the sponge needs to be rinsed out too. In the begining of setting up my tank I was rinsing the media in the filter areas every day to 2 days because every thing was still so new and there was debris everywhere.
The pictures of your tank dont look bad, I also use a very very high end camera too.
