kanima
Member
HI I hope you can help me out some I have a lot of questions on some stuff.
First let me list my tanks and equipment.
1 55gal at office
1 emperor 400 bio wheel
1 ehiem 2299 wet/dry
Maybe 40 lbs live rock
100 watts pc lighting.
1 90 gal at home
Aqua pro 125 wet/dry
Ocean runner 2500
216 watts t5 ho lights
90 or so lbs live rock.
Quite one 3000 running to a scwd closed loop.
And as most people I said I was going to do a fish only and now 3 months later I am trying my hand at some soft corals . I am doing the 90 at home for the corals then I might money permitting do the 55 later if all goes well with the 90 at home.
My biggest question is this. The 55 at work the water is crystal clear nothing floating around and has been crystal for sometime. The 90 at home there is always small stuff “sand silt” I assume due to a sifting goby that if I could catch would be in 55 (PITA) floating. I have tried numerous types of filter floss on the wet/dry and still can’t get the tank crystal. I haven’t lost any of the fish in any of the tanks nor the inverts. So it is not something that is deadly to the fish in the tank just gets on my nerves.
So since I am trying my hand at the softies coral I changed out the wet/dry for a 30 gal refugium with a tunze protein skimmer. I decided since the SCWD , with the UV and 2 phosoban reactors , one with phosoban the other in carbon where getting junk form the tank in them Due to no filtering on the feed line. That I would run both pumps in the back end of the refugium and solve that issue.
The problem I have run into is running both pumps causes the overflow ( AGA megaflow ) rated at 600 gph makes the water rise and fall in the overflow 3 inches down 3 inches up. So after playing some I remove the short drain line and added a longer one took the second pump out of the refugium and fixed the rising and falling water in the overflow.
But I still don’t understand what is causing the rising and falling in the overflow I don’t see how I can be pushing the limit with the two pumps with head loss of 600 gph. Both pumps are only over 500 gph and with head loss is half of that. I would like to run both pumps in the refugium. I know it has something to do with the overflows return pipe but I just don’t know what.
So basically after this long post I am asking What causes the water to rise and fall in the overflow on a reef tank? Is it too much flow or is the a drain pipe issue and how do you fix it.
And what type of filter floss are you guys using to clear up the water. Thanks
First let me list my tanks and equipment.
1 55gal at office
1 emperor 400 bio wheel
1 ehiem 2299 wet/dry
Maybe 40 lbs live rock
100 watts pc lighting.
1 90 gal at home
Aqua pro 125 wet/dry
Ocean runner 2500
216 watts t5 ho lights
90 or so lbs live rock.
Quite one 3000 running to a scwd closed loop.
And as most people I said I was going to do a fish only and now 3 months later I am trying my hand at some soft corals . I am doing the 90 at home for the corals then I might money permitting do the 55 later if all goes well with the 90 at home.
My biggest question is this. The 55 at work the water is crystal clear nothing floating around and has been crystal for sometime. The 90 at home there is always small stuff “sand silt” I assume due to a sifting goby that if I could catch would be in 55 (PITA) floating. I have tried numerous types of filter floss on the wet/dry and still can’t get the tank crystal. I haven’t lost any of the fish in any of the tanks nor the inverts. So it is not something that is deadly to the fish in the tank just gets on my nerves.
So since I am trying my hand at the softies coral I changed out the wet/dry for a 30 gal refugium with a tunze protein skimmer. I decided since the SCWD , with the UV and 2 phosoban reactors , one with phosoban the other in carbon where getting junk form the tank in them Due to no filtering on the feed line. That I would run both pumps in the back end of the refugium and solve that issue.
The problem I have run into is running both pumps causes the overflow ( AGA megaflow ) rated at 600 gph makes the water rise and fall in the overflow 3 inches down 3 inches up. So after playing some I remove the short drain line and added a longer one took the second pump out of the refugium and fixed the rising and falling water in the overflow.
But I still don’t understand what is causing the rising and falling in the overflow I don’t see how I can be pushing the limit with the two pumps with head loss of 600 gph. Both pumps are only over 500 gph and with head loss is half of that. I would like to run both pumps in the refugium. I know it has something to do with the overflows return pipe but I just don’t know what.
So basically after this long post I am asking What causes the water to rise and fall in the overflow on a reef tank? Is it too much flow or is the a drain pipe issue and how do you fix it.
And what type of filter floss are you guys using to clear up the water. Thanks
