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I wouldn't sleep at night with a CUC in the sump. Have had snails in the past make their way down alive and navigate all thru the sump. I had a external skimmer that the water level dropped one day. I checked everything I knew to check with no luck why it was happening. I ended up pulling the external feed pump and found a dead snail in the inlet pipe blocking the water flow. Glad it didn't make it to the impeller.A friend of mine had snails clog up his skimmer. What type of cuc is good for a sump?
Are you running a skimmer? You're supposed to skim out the extra bacteria from the nopox. Maybe its getting clogged with bacteria slime?Hi,
I upgraded from a 20 gallon long to a Red Sea Reefer 350 - 70g display and 20 g sump. Everything was going smooth as silk. No ugly stage, no gha, no anything bad really. At about 6 months in my nitrates got up to 12. I think my target should be lower so I started dosing NOPOX as I was doing in my 20. My anemones acted badly at first so I ramped up the NOPOX real slow. I am now at the suggested dose and my nitrates have dropped to 4, which I think is great. However, my filter socks, which I used to change 2x per week, now are clogged and overflowing every day. Is this going to go on forever? Changing filter socks every day is not that fun. When my nitrates are lower and I am dosing less will it go back to the way it was? Change the socks 2x per week?
Thanks, I really appreciate your help.
Details you will probably ask me:
Fish load:
1 Kole tang
1 Percula clown
1 Coral Beauty Angel
1 Orchid Dotty Back
1 Blue Spot Toby Puffer
3 PJ Cardinals
1 Lawnmower Blenny
All fish would still be considered small for their species except 1 of the Cardinals is full grown
Various leathers and toadstools and soft corals, Euphillia including hammers, torches and frogspawn and bubble coral, mushroom corals, gsp, green napthea, Pallys and Paly Grandis. 2 SPS - Styloflora and Montipora Septosa, 3 RBTAs. All look great.
Chemistry:
KH consistently at about 10.2
Calcium 410
Phosphate 0.03
Salinity 1.025
Dosing Red Sea KH as well as NOPOX
I change 1 gallon of water daily
InterestingStill no socks. No change in any water parameters. I still only use socks for a couple of hours after I vacuum the gravel. I have no idea why I was using them before???