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02/18/2018, 10:03 PM | #26 |
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Your tank is very young and your sump is brand new. I would let things establish and settle in first. I think they can be a great addition to a tank, like many things, but many people run crystal clear tanks without. Are you running a skimmer? mechanical filtration? carbon dosing?
And zeolite?
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02/18/2018, 10:21 PM | #27 |
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Zeolite, in a way, is essentially carbon dosing.
I would take it offline. I bet money that’s what is fueling the bacteria.
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02/19/2018, 09:31 PM | #29 |
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Checked parameters again today and all is good.
Calcium is 440-460 Ammonia 0 Nitrate 10 Nitrite 0 Ph 8.0 Its gotta be a bacteria bloom. I added 4-5 gallons with the new sump, added 8 lbs of cured rock (not live). And my leather coral is not doing well. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk |
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And here is a video. Looks like a ton of particulates and micro bubbles floating around as well.
https://youtu.be/WsTVOIV-n3s Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk |
02/20/2018, 05:53 AM | #31 |
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Micro bubbles could be a couple things. Plumbing not sealed and sucking in air, power head pulling air down form the surface via a vortex, of course a skimmer. It looks like a fair amount of stuff on the surface of your water. Does your overflow skim the surface? How big is the overflow?
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02/21/2018, 05:49 AM | #33 |
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Interesting overflow. Did you build the full version of the diy overflow, or is that just a pipe running down to the sump?
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I did re-cut my weir so that it skims the surface. Water looks a lot better. Still a little cloudy, but the micro bubbles are crazy.
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I was referring to the hole that’s drilled in the return pipe. If that’s sucking in air then you gonna blow bubbles. Your picture looks like that hole is pretty close to the surface. |
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UPDATE: I found my old Red sea prizm skimmer and put it in my sump last night. Ran it all night and water was pretty much clear by morning. Lots of dark skimmate in the cup. Kinda weird tho, cause my water parameters were perfect.
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