roidan Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 left Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SRC Member kee Posted December 12, 2003 SRC Member Share Posted December 12, 2003 nice tank.. hehe.. lots of space and alot thing to do haha keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member ai[k²]wan Posted December 12, 2003 SRC Member Share Posted December 12, 2003 is dat ur rose anemone?? haha no need to cycle liao ar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Anthony Posted December 12, 2003 SRC Member Share Posted December 12, 2003 y dun u diy a rack for ur landscape... save cost save time to do a great job . ... click here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 i gather that i have enough rocks to do the landscape i want lor...so racks..other than for the circulation benefits...the other rock-saving benefits i dun need lor....afterall, more rocks mean more biofilteration also..hehee Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryansimon Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 yes. that is why I got close to 110kg worth of rocks. cost a bomb, but the biofilteration. can't beat that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 yes. that is why I got close to 110kg worth of rocks. cost a bomb, but the biofilteration. can't beat that! yeah..and with your good ev180 skimmer....grow some macroalgae...have a DSB.....take a multi-prong approach to nitrates... Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 side cabinet with my chiller...MH ballasts and UPS... not obvious without flash..hehe but still can monitor the UPS battery status Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 with flash....ooops..everything can see liao Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member boxfish Posted December 14, 2003 SRC Member Share Posted December 14, 2003 roidan, can help to estimate how heavy is the MH bulb holder alone? if possible, the control gear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member ervine Posted December 14, 2003 SRC Member Share Posted December 14, 2003 Hm... looks like your MH are hooked onto a PVC stand issit? I could be wrong but looks like it from one of the photos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 14, 2003 Author Share Posted December 14, 2003 yeah..on pvc stand...but the pvc pipe is isolated from the hot lamp holder itself...so no problems of melting Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 14, 2003 Author Share Posted December 14, 2003 roidan, can help to estimate how heavy is the MH bulb holder alone? if possible, the control gear the control gear is damn heavy...the lamp holder is quite light...definitely can hang around.... Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terryz_ Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 How do you hang the light on to the pvc stand... Member of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 14, 2003 Author Share Posted December 14, 2003 How do you hang the light on to the pvc stand... well, that requires some light thinking....hehe Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member ah^siao Posted December 14, 2003 SRC Member Share Posted December 14, 2003 dun think PVC can.cauz it;s too weak.. use stainless steel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 terry/yazid: the center foam tower seems to be collecting all the gunk instead of pushing all the way into the collection cup..how ah... and these gunk seems to be resisting the foam to go all the way up...end up have to keep cleaning the foam tower of all these any solution? Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryansimon Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 is your water level up to the recommended level first? what I did was I turned the gate valve till the water level is at the halfway mark of the water column. for your case, since the bubble level is almost reaching the collection cup, what you can do is raise the level slightly by closing the gate valve slightly so that the foam will creep up to the collection cup. thats what I did lah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 yazid told me and i also read the manual confirming that the water level by right shouldn't be in the foam tower itself....it should be at most level to the base of the foam tower... i noticed that when i try to push the water level to middle of the foam tower, the bubbling becomes less vigourous, meaning less air went into the skimmer..but when i lowered the water level, the intense bubbling came back again... hehe Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 somehow the manual say that the water level should be at the level of the internal mixing platform the cyan line ....but yazid says that at most we can push it to the base of the foam tower (red line) ....and terry uses the mid foam tower level....the green line...hehe so i also dunno which line... Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryansimon Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 green line *mine* = less contact time = watery skimmate red line = very long contact time, dirty water column, and the skimmate will be genuinely thick. green line *AquaC* = maximum contact time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 so actually all works lah hor... as long as the waste is actually exported out of the main water system...doesnt really matter if the waste genna deposited on the foam tower or in the collection cup right terry? Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryansimon Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 technically, yes. you see some people do not appreciate having too thick a skimmate. the cleaning of the gunk. too gross to think about. some people get turned of with the dirty water column, blah blah blah. but the recommended water line is around where AquaC and yazid states. around that area. maximum contact time. I just get fed up of cleaning my tower with kitchen paper, hence I pushed the column up to somewhere around the midline. although I think its near yazid's level now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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