Am I catching on?

[Mark Cooper]

Well, I seem to have finally gotten a grip on my 29 gal reef-to-be.

ammonia 0
nitrites 0
nitrates 10 (I think these will continue to drop)
phosphates 0
pH 8.3
kH 145
calcium 460 ppm

One thing that helped a lot was I took the foam sleeve out of my
overflow, and instead cut out some pieces of filter pad that would do the
same thing, and these are changed out every day so there's no nasties
sitting there and percolating.

Now I'm getting the itch to get a critter :)


thanks for all the great info folks!

Mark

P.S. What's the best salt mix? ;)

[George Patterson]

Mark Cooper wrote:

> P.S. What's the best salt mix? ;)

I like Tropic Marin.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

[Marc Levenson]

Why do you need any kind of filter pad in your overflow? Is it to keep
the drain silent, or to keep the water level at a certain height?

I used to run my HOB overflow with only a 90 degree elbow and some rigid
airline tubing. It worked well and kept things silent.

Marc


Mark Cooper wrote:
> Well, I seem to have finally gotten a grip on my 29 gal reef-to-be.
>
> ammonia 0
> nitrites 0
> nitrates 10 (I think these will continue to drop)
> phosphates 0
> pH 8.3
> kH 145
> calcium 460 ppm
>
> One thing that helped a lot was I took the foam sleeve out of my
> overflow, and instead cut out some pieces of filter pad that would do the
> same thing, and these are changed out every day so there's no nasties
> sitting there and percolating.
>
> Now I'm getting the itch to get a critter :)
>
>
> thanks for all the great info folks!
>
> Mark
>
> P.S. What's the best salt mix? ;)
>
>
>
>

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[Mark Cooper]

Marc Levenson > wrote in
t:

> Why do you need any kind of filter pad in your overflow? Is it to
> keep the drain silent, or to keep the water level at a certain height?
>
> I used to run my HOB overflow with only a 90 degree elbow and some
> rigid airline tubing. It worked well and kept things silent.
>
> Marc
>

It's there to serve as a prefilter. I could probably get by without it.


Mark