jervismun Posted December 12, 2006 Author Share Posted December 12, 2006 Photo taken 8.30am (Day 2) - 24 hours upon running... Lovely Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 12, 2006 Author Share Posted December 12, 2006 12.30pm - Day 2 Only been running for 28 hours... and it is already showing sign of 'fierceness' Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 12, 2006 Author Share Posted December 12, 2006 5.02pm Hopefully by tomorrow... I will get thick skimmate Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 12, 2006 Author Share Posted December 12, 2006 3 x 26W Needlewheel (Rotomix) Foaming Pumps Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 12, 2006 Author Share Posted December 12, 2006 3 separate 2-pin plug... neatly mounted to my power extension (to be replaced by Aquatronica Power Unit soon) Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 9.30am (Day 3) Been running for 49 hours... looking great I guess Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 This is the water level I set... just at the base of the neck (Shot with all 3 foaming pumps off) Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 This is the part where I adjust the height of the water within the chamber (the transparent tube is a good indication for easy adjusting) Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 As expected from a skimmer this size... MICROBUBBLES!!! Quite abundant in my opinion... so proper sump design is needed if you want your tank bubble-free Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melvyn_Tan Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Can u explain more in detail "proper sump design is needed if you want your tank bubble-free" Is it already incooperated into yr sump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 Can u explain more in detail "proper sump design is needed if you want your tank bubble-free" Is it already incooperated into yr sump. Ok a proper sump design (in this context) should comes with mean/s to trap/stop microbubbles from returning to the main display tank. As for my case... it may not be the best (thanks to my ever-growing ideas and demands... until a point my tankmaker can't keep up with me anymore ) but it works perfectly fine as my main display tank is bubble-free Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melvyn_Tan Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Can you show some features of your sump tat help to eliminate micro bubbles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 Can you show some features of your sump tat help to eliminate micro bubbles? The picture I posted earlier shows a separate chamber for most of the bubbles to settle... the water column will then move through the bottom, which is around 24" below... into the main chamber of sump no.2... the water will then travel to sump no.1 throught a durso to reduce additional bubbles (and sound)... the water that is being discharged to sump no.1 contains very little microbubbles... the water then travels to the right... through 3" of black sponge... before reaching the return pump As mentioned before... may not be the best design... as the original sump was not designed for this skimmer... but hey... I am happy with my crystal clear tank water Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melvyn_Tan Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 ok thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 Ok... the smell is too unbearable... Gotto do something about it... the pix was taken with all 3 foaming pumps switched off Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 It took exactly 72 hours (during kick-in) to produce this amount of thick skimmate... I shall do another comparison in 3 days time Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 Alas... cannot "tahan" anymore Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 4.30pm 4 days 8 hours... the amount of foam produced increases everyday. Here's what I have done in the past 24 hours... removed the bioballs from my sump (a bit of floating detritus created from the process)... fed once using Live Brine Shrimp (not overfeeding) at 3.00pm Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 The bubbles on the neck looks the same to be in terms of denseness and fineness... everything looks the same to me except for the dryer and foamier candy floss... Could the Live Brine Shrimp produces so much wastes? I removed every single drop of water that comes with the shrimps Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 3.30pm 6 days 7 hours upon firing-up... I believe the skimmer has fully kicked-in... the skimmate is still constantly filthy-looking although I've been controlling my feeding... yesterday pellets only... today 3 cubes of frozen mysis (water removed) Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Sapp Posted December 18, 2006 SRC Member Share Posted December 18, 2006 Bro, the waste not only comes from the food you feel. Your LS and corals also produce waste leh... From the looks of your skimmate, this is onehelluva skimmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 Bro, the waste not only comes from the food you feel. Your LS and corals also produce waste leh... From the looks of your skimmate, this is onehelluva skimmer. Yes bro... but I only mentioned my feeding regimens as the LS and corals are pretty constant throughout the past week Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 Finally... 7 full days of running... (pix taken yesterday morning) As expected... skimmate keep pouring out Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 The foam is a little too dry... will do something about it later Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jervismun Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 Another glass... thick and dark Quote Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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