Big Daddy's Box of Water

[GoVols]

Uber cheap budget

Love the SeaSwirls.... ;Woot ;Woot

They are really nice!!

 

[Big Daddy Reefer]

I love the seaswirls too, low maintenance and great for a more natural current in the tank.

 

[temetvince]

I just started dosing calcium, I’ll let you know but I suspect it will be covered by Christmas. I’ll video the fish and invert behavior tonight. Thanks for the support.

Let's mark the calendar!

 

[temetvince]

Dang those SeaSwirls are pricey! Do you have any experience with these vortex random flow generators? I had one and liked it, but I don't think it'd really be comparable considering the price of the SeaSwirls.

Random Flow Generator | Vivid Creative Aquatics

vividcreativeaquatics.com

 

[Big Daddy Reefer]

Dang those SeaSwirls are pricey! Do you have any experience with these vortex random flow generators? I had one and liked it, but I don't think it'd really be comparable considering the price of the SeaSwirls.

Random Flow Generator | Vivid Creative Aquatics

vividcreativeaquatics.com

No experience with vortex flows, although they look interesting. Maybe I could stack them onto my seaswirls for double the effect ;Happy

Looks like vortex randomizes the flow from a point source, while seaswirls oscillate water in a 90 degree motion. Apples and oranges in my opinion.

 

[GoVols]

Dang those SeaSwirls are pricey! Do you have any experience with these vortex random flow generators? I had one and liked it, but I don't think it'd really be comparable considering the price of the SeaSwirls.

Random Flow Generator | Vivid Creative Aquatics

vividcreativeaquatics.com

I don't run SeaSwirls, but they are hard to beat, and a great company to work with.

 

[Big Daddy Reefer]

Explanation of biological anoxic filtration:

Since nitrifying bugs rapidly colonize any wet surface (including the media in a conventional aerobic filter) where there is also a source of ammonia, every surface in a fish tank will provide a home for the ammonia bug (nitrosomonas). Their waste product, nitrite, will then provide a nutrient source for the nitrite bug (nitrobacter) which will also colonize every wet surface in the aquarium. The result is that there will always be a degree of the nitrogen cycle conversion of ammonia to nitrate in fish tanks. Where anoxic filtration is employed, the ammonia is removed from the system without leaving nitrate as the end product. Therefore a quicker rate of removal of ammonia from the main aquarium and the consequential reduction of background ammonia in it is not only of benefit to the fish but it also reduces, as far as is possible, the nitrogen cycle taking place in the main aquarium. This allows the majority of ammonia to be removed and dealt with in the anoxic aquarium without nitrate being produced as an end product.

Source: http://www.iewgks.org/pdfs/filtration-2.pdf

 

[temetvince]

Explanation of biological anoxic filtration:
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Source: http://www.iewgks.org/pdfs/filtration-2.pdf

I followed that link, then followed the link to their source and was surprised by a really cool picture of a colored Koi gene tree. Pretty neat:

http://www.mankysanke.co.uk/assets/images/autogen/a_Gene_tree.jpg

 

[Big Daddy Reefer]

Took a few photos, nothing crazy but it’s still a fairly new tank.

 

[temetvince]

Great photos. What kind of coral is that last one?

 

[Big Daddy Reefer]

Great photos. What kind of coral is that last one?

Thanks, it’s a duncan coral

 

[GoVols]

@Big Daddy Reefer

Man...
I love your thread in "reef discussion"

But, I'll play it out with you, in here...

 

[Big Daddy Reefer]

@Big Daddy Reefer

Man...
I love your thread in "reef discussion"

But, I'll play it out with you, in here...

Thanks.