"swarvegorilla" wrote in message ...
Looking at you chemical measurements it DOES NOT WORK
that good even on your 100gal system.

noticed ya still had a bit of an ammonia and nitrite reading.
Your not cleaning this filter out in chlorinated water are you?
Looks like the bacteria are having a hard time building up
But then thats cycling for ya

Cycling ? For more than a year cycling ?
It supposed to finish in a month... not a year.

I want to put a huge fluidised sand bed filter
on the new system.
Can get almost all the bits for free, and if theres
one thing even I can build it's fbf's!!

There is no room in a reef tank for a fluidized sand bed filter.
This kind of filter is good for a swimming pool, but not in
a reef tank, where it quickly become a nitrates factory.