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02/25/2011, 04:47 PM | #351 |
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tabwyo how long has your A.T.S been up and running?
I was hoping to make something out of wood as a though style A.T.S Do you have a link for the stuff you use to treat the wood? Do you know if it comes in black? thanks |
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Here are pictures of Dogstar74's tank.
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02/25/2011, 04:57 PM | #353 |
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Here are some bubble trap ideas
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02/25/2011, 05:32 PM | #354 |
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Gonna go with a receptical that overflows into the main display tank. That should shut the thing up! Thanks all.
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02/25/2011, 05:38 PM | #355 |
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Since the large tank has a sump of 6' x 2' I'd have the return manifold into three short sections that ran back to front. Instead of with the long direction of the sump. That way you could easily slide the screens out the front of the cabinet or stand and put them in a bucket. You don't want to take the screens out by the width.
So take the 2nd picture in srusso posted with the three screens hanging parallel, and rotate the feed lines 90 degrees. Then you're money. Cheers, Aaron
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I like that idea as well!
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02/25/2011, 07:01 PM | #357 |
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scrubbed the CYANO off the screen. No more CYANO in the DT. Life is good.
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02/25/2011, 07:04 PM | #358 |
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took me 8 pictures to make that panoramic about 5 months ago
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02/25/2011, 07:25 PM | #359 |
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LOL so what you're saying is you only have one blue tang? Looks nice.
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02/25/2011, 07:56 PM | #360 |
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Lol, no, i have gotten many more fish since then.
6 Domino Damsels 1 sailfin 1 yellow tailed damsel 1 blue damsel 1 mandarin goby 1 pink shrimp goby 1 decorator crab 1 Huge hermit crab (orange and blue spotted) 1 long spine urchin 3 yellow damsels 1 sea grass wrass 1 fire shrimp 1 cleaner shrimp 1 maroon clown fish 2 anemones 1 rose anemone 2 "sharks" (cat fish) 3 flower anemones 1 purple firefish goby 2 spotted (signal) gobys 6 black spotted red damsel 1 shield head nudibranch 2 sand sifting star fish 1 serpent star 1 general red star corals and snails and hermits |
02/25/2011, 07:57 PM | #361 |
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the stuff on the sidewalls i dont like too much but the fish seem to like to eat it (some) and so do the snails and my urchin
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But once my algae scrubber gets back up to 100%, all that algae on the side walls will be gone. |
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This design means you need a couple of inches of water in the scrubber or the full siphon will constantly gurgle and create bubbles in your display. |
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here are some more pics of my scrubber build!!!!
Picture descriptions: 1. Plastic tote from wal-mart used to support ATS and minimize splashing. 2. Some left over acrylic I had laying around. tie strapped to tote for support. 3. Side view of cut out for pipe. 4. Roughed up (cactus like) screen. 5. Installed |
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lights used and kelvin rating? i'm screwing around with my kelvin rating |
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i used the 5k light as well,
seen little growth for 4 days (my tank is cycling so no load) switched to 27k today. jury is still out. |
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Hey Jeremy is this plumbed into the overflow? Could you show the end of the pipe withthe screen. Did you just cap it or do you have an "emegency" overflow built in. |
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you cant see the cap but just outside the pic on the right is the cap. thats pretty much a complete pic of plumbing |
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