The best way to set up a new tank?

RiaanP said:
You already have livestock The cubes take 2 weeks at least to mature. So what will be your main biological filtration for those 2 weeks? If you can get the one sump to overflow to the other for those 2 weeks... yeah, gap closed.
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I have been runing the cubes in my curent tank now for one month to make sure for my self that they work as advertised before i remove the DSB.
 
RiaanP said:
All you need is 1 * T-piece, 1 * 90 elbow, 1 * female end cap and a few short pieces of 50mm pipe. Short piece vertical. T-p on top, T going out horizontally to the side. Female end cap at the top (highest point). At other sump, 90 degree downwards and last 50mm pipe. Can cut both the downpipes with a 45 degree angle so that they can stand on the glass bottom, without blocking themselves. then no need to try and suspend the contraption.
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RiaanP said:
To do that use 50mm PVC to siphon water from the one to the other. Just as you would siphon water out via a flexible hose. To help get the air out, drill a 6mm hole at the highest point, insert a airline hose with a tap in it, suck the air out with your mouth. close tap. There, siphon started. Check every second day that air pocket did not form in the connection.
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Thanks RiaanP this answered so many questions I had.
 
Ill be using the Bio-Cubes that has been in my tank for a month and old live rock and sand from old tank + new sand that has been cycling in in a container for a month now with a heater and a flow pump and a small piece of LR (no lights). The old tank has been runing for 3 years now.
 
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Pleasure Christo

When are you doing the move?
 
Mechanical filtration, you can switch off for a day. And back on without any dire effects.
Chemical you can remove and add as you wish.

Biological cannot just be taken out, left outside for a day, put back in and everything is OK.
NP-pellets dies quickly with no flow. Well the bacteria in it.
Carbon dosing, although a chemical, depends on a biological reaction to function.
Orca cubes, although cubes in a bag with an airstone, depends on yeast to function.
DSB depends on bacteria living on the substrate.

Anything that although they consume a chemical, but the active ingredient is some micro organism, be it bacteria or yeast, is biological.

Anyway, Christo, good luck and enjoy the upgrade
 
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