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Honestly I never even knew about Pavonas until I got this at the swap
I looked it up on Google and mine resembles a Maldivensis, not Decussatus.
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I looked it up on Google and mine resembles a Maldivensis, not Decussatus.
Darcy Vasudev
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Yes, well the Malidivensis is far cooler in my opinion, that was a good score! Lucky you.
Enderturtle
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I believe that green pavona came from me at the members frag swap. Not sure what species it is. Was in the 20$ section at Neptune Aquatics.
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After a year of running the BH-100 over my sump, I finally made the switch to an actual cone skimmer. Picked up a Bubble Magnus NAC 3.5 Skimmer (rated 25-80gals) from @boun11
Now that I had to remove the old skimmer, I decided to make some big changes to how I make best use of my sump. So I completely removed the sump, cleaned everything and freshly put things back.
Skimmer had to go to the center chamber cos of the water level (9″). I made the sock chamber also the fuge hoping to keep pruning if I ever get to that state of crazy growth.
Middle chamber is a combination of Skimmer, ATS, Heater, some LR & Mangroves. I have the ATS connected to my drain and I don’t want the water trickling down to bring lot of detritus into the sump, so I have a container with a filter floss there. Also a 180gph pump from here feeds the reactor (GFO+Carbon).
Last chamber has the reactor outflow, Purigen & the return pump.
I have a 23w 6500k CFL for the Chaeto, 54w Hydroponics LED + 23W 2700K CFL on the ATS.
Its a new mesh I just added yesterday so obviously no algae (needed a new mesh cos I re-adjusted height).
150w Eheim Jager Heater (got this about a month ago).
Chaeto from @wpeterson I picked up last weekend.
2 Mangroves (one was from @Enderturtle).
Skimmer getting up to speed. Its just been 2 days now and I’m fine tuning to get it to skim a bit dry.
Thats all for now. Next big step is getting the right LED over my DT
Now that I had to remove the old skimmer, I decided to make some big changes to how I make best use of my sump. So I completely removed the sump, cleaned everything and freshly put things back.
Skimmer had to go to the center chamber cos of the water level (9″). I made the sock chamber also the fuge hoping to keep pruning if I ever get to that state of crazy growth.
Middle chamber is a combination of Skimmer, ATS, Heater, some LR & Mangroves. I have the ATS connected to my drain and I don’t want the water trickling down to bring lot of detritus into the sump, so I have a container with a filter floss there. Also a 180gph pump from here feeds the reactor (GFO+Carbon).
Last chamber has the reactor outflow, Purigen & the return pump.
I have a 23w 6500k CFL for the Chaeto, 54w Hydroponics LED + 23W 2700K CFL on the ATS.
Its a new mesh I just added yesterday so obviously no algae
(needed a new mesh cos I re-adjusted height).
150w Eheim Jager Heater (got this about a month ago).
Chaeto from @wpeterson I picked up last weekend.
2 Mangroves (one was from @Enderturtle).
Skimmer getting up to speed. Its just been 2 days now and I’m fine tuning to get it to skim a bit dry.
Thats all for now. Next big step is getting the right LED over my DT
Enderturtle
Guest
We should have a bar workshop on Algae Turf Scrubbers sometime.
I like your sump. Very organized. And you managed to fit all that equipment in there!
I like your sump. Very organized. And you managed to fit all that equipment in there!
Coral reefer
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I don't see why you have ats, gfo, purigen, and chaeto? I don't think chaeto will grow w all that other stuff...
Nav
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Mike, I've seen couple of systems doing all of it other than ATS. Since I had ATS, never really got into chaeto, this is my first try running all of it. (fingers crossed).
Nav
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It literally took me an entire day (11am to 10pm) to get this done. Unplugging, siphoning, lugging, vinegar baths, etc. Also had complications with a slow leak on one of my overflow drain pipes. Wuh!! Next day I couldn't even walk...
Nav
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No, if you see the full sump shot above, I have a 6500k 23w CFL on the chaeto. The ATS has a red hydroponics grow light on one side and the 3k 23w CFL on the other (removed the CFL for the photo).
aqua-nut
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Although I don't want to make fun of your pain, it's good to hear even the young among us find this tough!
Every time I see some east coast dude with a sump in the BASEMENT, I get jealous!! I lust after a basement!! Being able to work on sump standing up would be heaven.
Very sexy pink light you've got there for the ATS!
Nav
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One week running my Bubble Magnus NAC 3.5. First 2 days it ran pretty wet but slowly tweaked outflow and some air intake and its doing a pretty good job now
Happy that I moved to cone from HOB.For anyone interested the water level is 9", its dialed to 3.5 and I've reduced the air intake by adding a thinner tube (more finer foaming)
Enderturtle
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Does fine foaming in a skimmer = better nutrient export?
I will do this too if it does.
I will do this too if it does.
Nav
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Not really sure, most of them try to get a thick paste... my assumption is when you skim dry, you can skim more (cos if its wet, you gotta keep emptying the cup) so more nutrients exported.