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So i have bought a 135 gallon tank.. 2 mh 1 400 mh 2x 40 gallon (sump refugium) aquac protien skimmer.. and a 1900 seieo to drive the skimmer.. and a 5200 barracuda/hammerhead cant remb which to drive it all...oh yeah a 1/4 chiller, a 40 watt uv.. and a 365 gph pump for them too..
these things i have collected from cl over the last 4 weeks... or less (before i found you all
so i set it all up.. this last sat i installed the uv light and chiller (tank was around 89 with the lights on? ) around 79 now.. diatoms still there.. but i leave the lights off more cuase I am just cycling the tank...(hard to do)
(btw did i mention this is my first tank?)
And sunday ..well all night sat and most of sunday we installed the reeflo.. becuase the cheap mag rip off 1400 lifesomething pump crapped out in less than a month... sigh... and this morn (still havent slept yet) i turned it on.. HAHAHAH .. and woosh .. oh its strong all right.. woosh in less than 3 secs it sucked all the water in the refugium and dumped into the tank.. oh.. around 20 or so gallons.. and my tank overflowed and the sump too... hahaha it i was like uh oh.. when wife see 30 or so gallons on the floor.. im a gonner..
The pump is as loud as a shop vac? something wrong with it? i have heard others and they where wihsper quiet.. Is it my piping? should i open it up and look at the prop head? the pipes are 1 from pre drilled holes from the refugium... the inlet is 1.5.. should I just put this pump over the refgium with a foot/check valve..? I spent all sat working on it..all sunday less a few hours installing piping 1" from the tank.. to 1.5 from the reeflo.. /(shakes head) driving me nuts ><
How slow does the water ahve to pass through the refugium/ps? ..?I had to take off those long pvc pipe to elbow thingys in my plumbming.. but the water .. falls down from the the tank.. pass through the sump at a high rate.. and the refugium .. and gets pumped back up...
Now I have a ton of micro bubles.. a loud pump that sounds like a wet vac... and tired and discouraged as heck ..sheesh ><
these things i have collected from cl over the last 4 weeks... or less (before i found you all
so i set it all up.. this last sat i installed the uv light and chiller (tank was around 89 with the lights on? ) around 79 now.. diatoms still there.. but i leave the lights off more cuase I am just cycling the tank...(hard to do)
(btw did i mention this is my first tank?)
And sunday ..well all night sat and most of sunday we installed the reeflo.. becuase the cheap mag rip off 1400 lifesomething pump crapped out in less than a month... sigh... and this morn (still havent slept yet) i turned it on.. HAHAHAH .. and woosh .. oh its strong all right.. woosh in less than 3 secs it sucked all the water in the refugium and dumped into the tank.. oh.. around 20 or so gallons.. and my tank overflowed and the sump too... hahaha it i was like uh oh.. when wife see 30 or so gallons on the floor.. im a gonner..
The pump is as loud as a shop vac? something wrong with it? i have heard others and they where wihsper quiet.. Is it my piping? should i open it up and look at the prop head? the pipes are 1 from pre drilled holes from the refugium... the inlet is 1.5.. should I just put this pump over the refgium with a foot/check valve..? I spent all sat working on it..all sunday less a few hours installing piping 1" from the tank.. to 1.5 from the reeflo.. /(shakes head) driving me nuts ><
How slow does the water ahve to pass through the refugium/ps? ..?I had to take off those long pvc pipe to elbow thingys in my plumbming.. but the water .. falls down from the the tank.. pass through the sump at a high rate.. and the refugium .. and gets pumped back up...
Now I have a ton of micro bubles.. a loud pump that sounds like a wet vac... and tired and discouraged as heck ..sheesh ><