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  sumps

  Posted: January 15th, 2012, 1:52pm CST by Dean Schreuder

  UGood day all,
  
  I have a sump running like this 1st chamber ts1 skimmer overflowing into a dsb with live rock on egg crate above and cheato, 3rd chamber purigen, chemipure and phosogaurd, last chamber return pump and pump for chiller.
  
  Question i have, i have seen many petshops have ceramic rings and bio balls intergrated in there sumps. Exotic, pet masters etc all have it running. They all are running reef systems.
  
  My tank is new and im running my cycle with live rock and stability, will be adding prodibo soon ;)
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  Sump - Bio or Mechanical

  Posted: January 10th, 2012, 5:17am CST by Dean Schreuder

  Good day all
  
  I currently have a 2 ft sump split into 4 compartments, water enters gets skimmed passes over and through a 5cm layer of sand (wanted this as a dsb- i now know that it must not be oxygen rich) then flows under and rises through Bio pellets, purigen, chemipure and then flows over into ceramic rings..
  
  Im thinking of taking out the middle plane of glass and making a proper DSB with sand collected deep in the sea, then using that last compartment for purigen chemipure etc..
  
  My tank is 11days old now so rather get it right 1st time.. Another thing will i be able to cardon dose(vodka) if i have a DSB?
  
  :thumbup:
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  Prodibio

  Posted: January 7th, 2012, 7:42pm CST by Dean Schreuder

  Hey All
  
  I spoke to Furbs the other day, by the way thanks for the sale and help :-)
  
  I have done some research on the product and want to give it a go, Want to know tho.. Should i start the lighting straight away? I wont stock in a hurry will wait like 2 weeks think thats fine?
  Should i run a phosphate reactor to remove my phosphates to avoid unwanted algae (Have readings of 1mg/l), Should i Run the Skimmer? I know they instruct u not to a certain period?
  
  How should i maintain my tank afterwards, just dose every 2 weeks and do water changes and monitor the water paramaters.:thumbup:
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  cycling

  Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 8:59am CST by Dean Schreuder

  Hey all
  
  Happy to be part of the forum, I have a question for u guys and girls. I have a 3ft tank and 2ft sump, the main tank has 8kg of live rock. The lights are off and I have added a dead shrimp to aid in the cycle. Should I continue running the skimmer and I was wondering should I remove the puragen , chemipure as this should affect the ammonia levels as I also have ammonia stones in the sump but my gut tells me to remove all chemicals that can influence the water parameter/bacteria.