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I didn't know there were other Jeepers with an interest in marine life. Kevin's tank is beautiful, and somebody else seemed interested. I thought I'd start a new thread on marine tanks!
I have a question for any of you fish people who've been doing this longer than me. We're having a problem with micro bubbles blowing into the tank. It's making the nitrates high and our coral (star polyps) sad. We're keeping up with regular water changes, but have also noticed an increase in red algae (too much nutrients in the water... we have a protein skimmer). We think we forgot to use tap water conditioner in a couple water changes which started the red algae growth. It's slowed down greatly after the last couple water changes.
Anyways, here's a description of our setup:
~40 Gallon acrylic tank, overflow siphon to pull water off the back of the tank down to the ~20 gallon sump which has some filter medium in one side, and a protein skimmer in the other. From there it is pumped (big pump) back up to the tank through a powerhead.
The system only has negative pressure (to pull in air) from the sump to the pump. Once it's at the pump, it's positive pressure and would leak water, not suck in air. We can't figure out a good way to test where the air is coming in on this small section. We've replaced the hose, new clamps and that didn't fix it, so we're thinking it's a fitting, but on what end? pump or sump?
Any ideas?
(If you want, I can take pictures of any part of it to help aid my crappy description).
I have a question for any of you fish people who've been doing this longer than me. We're having a problem with micro bubbles blowing into the tank. It's making the nitrates high and our coral (star polyps) sad. We're keeping up with regular water changes, but have also noticed an increase in red algae (too much nutrients in the water... we have a protein skimmer). We think we forgot to use tap water conditioner in a couple water changes which started the red algae growth. It's slowed down greatly after the last couple water changes.
Anyways, here's a description of our setup:
~40 Gallon acrylic tank, overflow siphon to pull water off the back of the tank down to the ~20 gallon sump which has some filter medium in one side, and a protein skimmer in the other. From there it is pumped (big pump) back up to the tank through a powerhead.
The system only has negative pressure (to pull in air) from the sump to the pump. Once it's at the pump, it's positive pressure and would leak water, not suck in air. We can't figure out a good way to test where the air is coming in on this small section. We've replaced the hose, new clamps and that didn't fix it, so we're thinking it's a fitting, but on what end? pump or sump?
Any ideas?
(If you want, I can take pictures of any part of it to help aid my crappy description).
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