- Location
- New Jersey
As some of you might know I've been battling with my first Salt Water tank setup for the last 2 weeks or so. I have also been battling my filtration options as well. Well yesterday something did it for me. I returned home to find that my recently purchased sandsifting goby had been building a home near a piece of my live rock. He burrowed out a hole under the rock which was his home. Unfortunately this had the bad effect of collapsing a piece of live rock which killed my yellow sea cucumber (Dirk Diggler) which caused toxic waste to enter the water and my little clown fish named HappyEnding his girlfriend is named ChopStik who was playing with the sea cucumber died of toxic waste and then my emerald crab Mr. Crabs went and tried to eat my sea cucumber and died of poisoning and then one of my hermit crabs tried to eat HappyEnding and died of poision as well. I found them all in a small pile dead. Either my critters were part of a religious tank cult or they just died the way I know they did.
Well. this prompted me to drain half the tank install my sump remove the media from the canister filter except the polishing cloth and carbon and foam and over all install a sump. over All including the 5 gallon I think Canister filter and the 10 gallon sump
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70 Gal
I currently have about 69 gallons of water goign through my system. The sump's return if good strong and power ful the return from the canister is nice clean etc. The sump overflow is pulling crap from the top of the water while the canister is pulling crap from mid/bottom of the water and is circulated by 2 powerheads pointing directly at the live rock making some good current but also forcing water to filter through the live rock and into the back area behind the live rock to get sucked up by my canister filter. Heres A visual. I'm sad. But at least it was a few inverts and not my Chromis or larger more colorful Clown. :?
Well. this prompted me to drain half the tank install my sump remove the media from the canister filter except the polishing cloth and carbon and foam and over all install a sump. over All including the 5 gallon I think Canister filter and the 10 gallon sump
55
10
5
___
70 Gal
I currently have about 69 gallons of water goign through my system. The sump's return if good strong and power ful the return from the canister is nice clean etc. The sump overflow is pulling crap from the top of the water while the canister is pulling crap from mid/bottom of the water and is circulated by 2 powerheads pointing directly at the live rock making some good current but also forcing water to filter through the live rock and into the back area behind the live rock to get sucked up by my canister filter. Heres A visual. I'm sad. But at least it was a few inverts and not my Chromis or larger more colorful Clown. :?
