Mitch AKA CarpentersReef can i have a picture of your tank p
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Shirley
Check out this thread.
BTW, I just bought a house this week, (sshhh...don't tell cwa) and I ordered 2 more 180's
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Mitch
Check out this thread.
BTW, I just bought a house this week, (sshhh...don't tell cwa) and I ordered 2 more 180's
Mitch
For the 2 new tanks, I think I'm just going to go with 150w HQI's, and use the 25ow setup you see for SPS, clams and the BTA's. I am having trouble keeping shrooms and some softies thriving in my present setup. The 180 pictured will become a refugium/seahorse tank with a LR wall supported with acrylic rods. The LR wall will separate the refugium and seahorses, with water flow going from the refugium through the LR to the seahorses.
I'm very excited!
Mitch
(now I've got to draw up some plumbing plans to give to my LFS so he can manufacture the tanks for me!
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I'm very excited!
Mitch
(now I've got to draw up some plumbing plans to give to my LFS so he can manufacture the tanks for me!
That sounds like an awesome idea for the sea horses. Id love to see it whn its finished. Im glad you said that the 250 HQI's were a bit much for softies and shrooms because im still trying to decide about 250 or 400W. But i think from what you say 250 will be more than sufficent. Do you have any LPS under those lights, ultimately i think id want as many LPS as SPS if not more.
Ahh i see you too are in search of the Holy Grail, the automated cascading planctonic feeder system. I was going to try and do it with the reactors AB make, they have overflows to attach the two together. Only problem is trying to avaid cross contamination of cultures. So that would mean supplying the first reservoir with new salt water. How were you going to do it, spill beans please.
Mitch, heres the piece about connecting them up.
7. Automation of the system with dosing pumps
The plankton cultures need daily maintenance. Both, the algal and the rotifer culture have to harvested, diluted and fed daily, to keep the high growth rate.
This effort can be minimized by the use of dosing pumps.
In the following, a system is described,where an aquarium with invertebrates is supplied with live plankton every day.
One dosing pumps sucks water out of a tank or the aquarium. It is adjusted, so that the amount pumped per day is app. 1 Liter. This is controlled by a time switch. As the water from the aquarium might contain zooplankton, it has to be filtered. Here a 10" Filter housing witha 5 µm filter cartige from the reverse osmose can be used.
This filter retains all zooplankton from entering the algal culture. From the filter, the water enters the algal culture. The water is added into the air pipe with a T-piece and pumped into the culture together with the air. The plankton light reactor is supplied with an overflow. The inflowing water forces now the same amount of algal culture to flow out into the zooplankton culture. It is important to switch a drip counter between the algal and the zooplankton culture to avoid, that rofifers enter the algal culture.
A second dosing pump adds parallel to the first one fertilizer into the algal culture from a storage
I had heard form people they make a cascade, but personally i think there will be problems with the culture reproduction rates seen as both cultures have the same vessel. I recon building a purpose built one would be more suitable. oh well.
7. Automation of the system with dosing pumps
The plankton cultures need daily maintenance. Both, the algal and the rotifer culture have to harvested, diluted and fed daily, to keep the high growth rate.
This effort can be minimized by the use of dosing pumps.
In the following, a system is described,where an aquarium with invertebrates is supplied with live plankton every day.
One dosing pumps sucks water out of a tank or the aquarium. It is adjusted, so that the amount pumped per day is app. 1 Liter. This is controlled by a time switch. As the water from the aquarium might contain zooplankton, it has to be filtered. Here a 10" Filter housing witha 5 µm filter cartige from the reverse osmose can be used.
This filter retains all zooplankton from entering the algal culture. From the filter, the water enters the algal culture. The water is added into the air pipe with a T-piece and pumped into the culture together with the air. The plankton light reactor is supplied with an overflow. The inflowing water forces now the same amount of algal culture to flow out into the zooplankton culture. It is important to switch a drip counter between the algal and the zooplankton culture to avoid, that rofifers enter the algal culture.
A second dosing pump adds parallel to the first one fertilizer into the algal culture from a storage
I had heard form people they make a cascade, but personally i think there will be problems with the culture reproduction rates seen as both cultures have the same vessel. I recon building a purpose built one would be more suitable. oh well.
yup,
sounds like a pretty complicated mousetrap. (no pun intended) (damn, what was that guy's name again? About a year ago I built a huge treehouse that had a TON of wheels and pulleys that did nothing more than lift a stupid log about 5 feet. The kids loved it though!)
More thinking required. I probably won't have the whole system up and fully functional for at least 6 months! (oh, well...gives me something to do!)
Mitch
[ February 21, 2002: Message edited by: Carpentersreef ]</p>
sounds like a pretty complicated mousetrap. (no pun intended) (damn, what was that guy's name again? About a year ago I built a huge treehouse that had a TON of wheels and pulleys that did nothing more than lift a stupid log about 5 feet. The kids loved it though!)
More thinking required. I probably won't have the whole system up and fully functional for at least 6 months! (oh, well...gives me something to do!)
Mitch
[ February 21, 2002: Message edited by: Carpentersreef ]</p>
FYI, I used to grow nanochloropus and rotifer. I did the manual way. All was good for a couple weeks. I have 3 tubes, one with nano, one with rotifer, one with artemia. The nano is quite productive, and the water feeds both the rotifer and to the tank straight. The rotifer feeds the artemia, and I replenish NSW and nutrient to the algae tube to keep up with the production. It is a lot of work to be done everyday just on transfering liquid and also make sure the container used is sterile otherwise the culture may crash. Mine actually crashed several times and had to start over.
I finally got tired of the manual labor and go back to frozen algae paste, golden pearl, and LFS brine shrimp that I enrich myself.
I recently ordered live nanochloropus and saltwater rotifer from Sachs systems and should arrive today. Their price is relatively cheap. I will let you guys know if the stuff is good. I am thinking of drop ship small samples to Tom and Matt at Inland Reefs to take picture under the microscope to compare the density with DT's. Maybe I will do that!
I finally got tired of the manual labor and go back to frozen algae paste, golden pearl, and LFS brine shrimp that I enrich myself.
I recently ordered live nanochloropus and saltwater rotifer from Sachs systems and should arrive today. Their price is relatively cheap. I will let you guys know if the stuff is good. I am thinking of drop ship small samples to Tom and Matt at Inland Reefs to take picture under the microscope to compare the density with DT's. Maybe I will do that!
Mitch:
Shouldn't that red handled clamp be in your workshop and not attached to your tank ?
Rich
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Shouldn't that red handled clamp be in your workshop and not attached to your tank ?
Rich
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