jcovercash
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Very nice setup. I am in the process of setting up an AP24 myself. This is my first experiance with saltwater so im trying to learn as much as I can, so far im enjoying it and have soaked up a good bit of knowledge from reading the posts on this forum.
I like the eggcrate mod that you have did, im sure this is much more effective than the stock little blue filters (which I seem to be having trouble with currently on keeping debris out of my tank, it still seems a little couldy even though it has been running for a few days now.
I was wondering if you could give me more info on it exactly. I know you have a few shelves built (two in your original picture). On the top you put filter floss right, which is just a polyester filter material?? Then on the lower rack you put chemi-pure? Now the filter floss is the only actual mechanical filter that the water is running past right? The chemi-pure bag is just in the water doing its thing correct?
So if I build an eggcrate rack the most important aspect of it is that it needs to catch water on the filter floss when it flows over the top weir of the tank (which I have already modded to add in a final peice to make it actually skim the top having my rear tanks 3-4 inchs of water lower than the front area). It doesn't really matter where the chemi-pure would sit then correct? If I put in filter floss/chemi-pure would that we enough filtration? I currently have 10 lbs of liverock and will be adding more today from my LFS. I am also using 20 lbs of live sand.
I just want to get rid of the blue filter/bio-balls/chalk blocks that come with it stock and do whatever I can to get crystal clear water.
Anyone who can help please chime in though.
Great looking tank setup!
I like the eggcrate mod that you have did, im sure this is much more effective than the stock little blue filters (which I seem to be having trouble with currently on keeping debris out of my tank, it still seems a little couldy even though it has been running for a few days now.
I was wondering if you could give me more info on it exactly. I know you have a few shelves built (two in your original picture). On the top you put filter floss right, which is just a polyester filter material?? Then on the lower rack you put chemi-pure? Now the filter floss is the only actual mechanical filter that the water is running past right? The chemi-pure bag is just in the water doing its thing correct?
So if I build an eggcrate rack the most important aspect of it is that it needs to catch water on the filter floss when it flows over the top weir of the tank (which I have already modded to add in a final peice to make it actually skim the top having my rear tanks 3-4 inchs of water lower than the front area). It doesn't really matter where the chemi-pure would sit then correct? If I put in filter floss/chemi-pure would that we enough filtration? I currently have 10 lbs of liverock and will be adding more today from my LFS. I am also using 20 lbs of live sand.
I just want to get rid of the blue filter/bio-balls/chalk blocks that come with it stock and do whatever I can to get crystal clear water.
Anyone who can help please chime in though.
Great looking tank setup!
