Melev's new 280g Starfire tank thread - Page 4

Travis · #76 12/14/2005, 01:00 PM

melev, we miss you.

Alright everyone, let's see how many pages we can fill up with useless information before he gets back.

GregM779 · #77 12/14/2005, 01:08 PM

OK, did you know that the only US state that produces coffee is Hawaii?

Qwiv · #78 12/14/2005, 02:54 PM

Someone was asking about the DSB in a bucket.
Here is a good bulkhead to use:
http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/.../8600/cid/2009

1/2" and 3/4" work great.

These are great for this installation. They are very tight and produce a good seal. Also, low flow through the bucket is key. You need just enough to keep the water moving and particles suspended. I Tee these off my return line, not off my overflow lines, as you want particles to settle in your sump, not in the bucket.

These work great in aquaculture facilitues as you can link as many 5 gal buckets or other containers as needed in a row. You can date the lids, producing a LS production factory + as cheap filter for your corals. Then sell the sand as livesand after a few months use.

They make regular bulkheads that have a radius on the seals, but they are expensive and have radius requirments. They sell them at water tank supply companies and are normally designed for use on a specific tank. I have never seen one that will fit a 5 gal bucket myself.

original-reefland · #79 12/14/2005, 02:56 PM

Hope he remembered to turn the pumps back on before he left this time.

fishman805 · #80 12/14/2005, 03:53 PM

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Originally posted by original-reefland
Hope he remembered to turn the pumps back on before he left this time.

Yea, I hope so too.... Hey, here's a question for anyone using a Phosban Reactor... When adding the Phosban ( or any other media for that matter ), do you just put the stuff in loose or do you put it in a filter bag then into the reactor?? or does it really matter one way or the other..??

Bob

Micki · #81 12/14/2005, 04:02 PM

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Originally posted by fishman805
Yea, I hope so too.... Hey, here's a question for anyone using a Phosban Reactor... When adding the Phosban ( or any other media for that matter ), do you just put the stuff in loose or do you put it in a filter bag then into the reactor?? or does it really matter one way or the other..??

Bob

I just put the stuff in lose, but, I run 3-5 gallons of tank water through it before actually running it in the tank. I then add 3-5 gallons of premade salt water back int the tank. Tiny water change I guess.

xchrisjb · #82 12/14/2005, 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by Travis
melev, we miss you. Alright everyone, let's see how many pages we can fill up with useless information before he gets back.

Does it have to be reef-related?

I tried to think of some useless info, but then realized that when first getting into the hobby a lot of "useless" info was really pretty useful to me ... Someone else will have to really start this off.

Apparently I'm useless ...

GregM779 · #83 12/14/2005, 05:16 PM

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Originally posted by xchrisjb
Does it have to be reef-related?

I tried to think of some useless info, but then realized that when first getting into the hobby a lot of "useless" info was really pretty useful to me ... Someone else will have to really start this off.

Apparently I'm useless ...

I already did

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Originally posted by GregM779
OK, did you know that the only US state that produces coffee is Hawaii?

GregM779 · #84 12/14/2005, 05:18 PM

I wonder if we can split the thread again before he's back

gkarshens · #85 12/14/2005, 05:21 PM

The state with the second highest Bald Eagle pop. to Alaska is...

Florida.

xchrisjb · #86 12/14/2005, 05:26 PM

Okay, how 'bout this --

Did you know that Smokey bear ("Only you can prevent forest fires") came from New Mexico.

Oh yeah, and Billy the Kid is supposedly buried here too.

Travis · #87 12/14/2005, 05:47 PM

South Dakota's state bird is the pheasant.

gkarshens · #88 12/14/2005, 06:00 PM

I'm sure Marc may chuckle at allthis at first, but after a few pages of it he may ditch the thread all together.

Lordhelmet · #89 12/14/2005, 06:05 PM

Idaho has more millionaires per capita then any other state.

Travis · #90 12/14/2005, 06:06 PM

I wouldn't worry about Marc ditching out on us. People did the same thing to my thread over Thanksgiving. Didn't bother me. Just people being people.

Qwiv · #91 12/14/2005, 07:31 PM

I hate people being people. Why can't anyone find something more interesting to be?

original-reefland · #92 12/14/2005, 08:33 PM

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Originally posted by fishman805
Yea, I hope so too.... Hey, here's a question for anyone using a Phosban Reactor... When adding the Phosban ( or any other media for that matter ), do you just put the stuff in loose or do you put it in a filter bag then into the reactor?? or does it really matter one way or the other..??

I put it in loose since you need to have the flow rate slow enough that the media doesn't even move (phosban media and rowaphos that is). Then top it off with a few inches of carbon.

If this is your first time using phosphate media then start with about 25% of the recommend amount of media. If you drop the phosphate levels to rapidily you may shock the corals (so they say). I'd imagine it is the zooanthelle that has to adjust to a food source being cut off.

Micki · #93 12/14/2005, 08:56 PM

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Originally posted by original-reefland
I put it in loose since you need to have the flow rate slow enough that the media doesn't even move (phosban media and rowaphos that is). Then top it off with a few inches of carbon.

If this is your first time using phosphate media then start with about 25% of the recommend amount of media. If you drop the phosphate levels to rapidily you may shock the corals (so they say). I'd imagine it is the zooanthelle that has to adjust to a food source being cut off.

I run my carbon in a seperate conatiner.

Lunchbucket · #94 12/14/2005, 10:20 PM

my fishes breath smells like fish food

Lunchbucket

Lunchbucket · #95 12/14/2005, 10:21 PM

anyone seen my stapler??

Lunchbucket

original-reefland · #96 12/14/2005, 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by Lunchbucket
anyone seen my stapler??

Top shelf to the right, behind that bobble head doll in the corner.

Lunchbucket · #97 12/14/2005, 10:44 PM

anyone else think clowns are scary?

Lunchbucket

GregM779 · #98 12/14/2005, 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by Lunchbucket
anyone else think clowns are scary?

Lunchbucket

the fish or the people??

Lunchbucket · #99 12/14/2005, 10:54 PM

oops

i mean the freaky people that dress up like them

Lunchbucket

Travis · #**100** 12/14/2005, 11:01 PM

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Originally posted by original-reefland
Then top it off with a few inches of carbon.

That is interesting. I never knew you could run carbon and GFO in the same fluidized reactor without separating them with a sponge pad or something. Does the carbon stay completely separated from the GFO since it is larger and lighter? I wonder if it also helps to keep some of the "dust" from the GFO from getting out of the reactor.