ok so it is almost a new setup.
it started when I came back from india from a 2 week bussinus trip and found my tank green 90% of my zoas gone and 2 out of the 3 fish missing I am convinced that the "RO" water that was used for the topups by my tanksitter was nothing more than tapwater as I have never had such alge problems since using ro for topup.
havig read up on ats's I thought now was the time to build one broke out some old lace curtains and some piping from an old hydroponic setup I built and a bedside lamp anconected it to one of the pumps in my thank and wala ats
I then got a call from a mate saying that I needed to come round for dinner and to come with an empty car. when I arived he showed me his new cube and told me to please remove the old 4ft from his flat and that I could have it on semi perminant loan now I have been strugiling along with a litle 3ft with no sump so this was a nice upgrade for me so the 2 of us loaded it in my car after dinner (a corsa light) and I drove home feeling like a sardine in a tin in the morning I unpact it with the help of my gardener and set it up 3 trips to the beach later and it was full with water I let the temp stabalise and moved all my lr pumps and remaining livstock over
so after catching up on some studying I took a brak last night and built an overflow box and driled the tank actualy much easier than I thaught
hopfuly this weekend ill get a chance to plumb in the old 3ft as the sump and and top up the tank till the overflow works going to split the sump into 3 sections with first chamber for a furure skimmer second for dsb witch will have the ats over it and the 3rd for the return pump. a question I have is the pump I have currently for the return is a 1600l/h is this enough the total volume of the tank and sump will be around 300l also the bulkheads in the overflow are for 16mm pipe is this big enough for the flow should I install a seconed one?
it started when I came back from india from a 2 week bussinus trip and found my tank green 90% of my zoas gone and 2 out of the 3 fish missing I am convinced that the "RO" water that was used for the topups by my tanksitter was nothing more than tapwater as I have never had such alge problems since using ro for topup.
havig read up on ats's I thought now was the time to build one broke out some old lace curtains and some piping from an old hydroponic setup I built and a bedside lamp anconected it to one of the pumps in my thank and wala ats
I then got a call from a mate saying that I needed to come round for dinner and to come with an empty car. when I arived he showed me his new cube and told me to please remove the old 4ft from his flat and that I could have it on semi perminant loan now I have been strugiling along with a litle 3ft with no sump so this was a nice upgrade for me so the 2 of us loaded it in my car after dinner (a corsa light) and I drove home feeling like a sardine in a tin in the morning I unpact it with the help of my gardener and set it up 3 trips to the beach later and it was full with water I let the temp stabalise and moved all my lr pumps and remaining livstock over
so after catching up on some studying I took a brak last night and built an overflow box and driled the tank actualy much easier than I thaught
hopfuly this weekend ill get a chance to plumb in the old 3ft as the sump and and top up the tank till the overflow works going to split the sump into 3 sections with first chamber for a furure skimmer second for dsb witch will have the ats over it and the 3rd for the return pump. a question I have is the pump I have currently for the return is a 1600l/h is this enough the total volume of the tank and sump will be around 300l also the bulkheads in the overflow are for 16mm pipe is this big enough for the flow should I install a seconed one?