Hi folks. New 140g system due in early next week. Plumbing, filling, getting the nitrogen cycle started... be a month or two before I'm ready to actually start with the 'system', but had a few questions that I thought some of the experts around here might be able to answer.
1) What is the size of the 4x Core7 containers? I see lots of dosing info, and I think I've got a handle on how much I want to dose, when I want to start, but I'm trying to calculate costs... and I can't find the size of the bottles _anywhere_.
2) Bare bottom tank. Yeah, I see that the method calls for a shallow sand bed, and I may well go that way, but it's not my current plan. This will be a 5' long, 30" wide tank, mounted peninsula style. I'm going to have to generate mucho flow all at one end in order to keep the kind of flow I'm wanting. I'm afraid a sand bed, anything finer than large particle crushed coral, is going to blow all over the place. Can the method be followed with a bare bottom system successfully? I was thinking perhaps some siporax in the sump to help make up for the lost bio filtration space.
3) Dosing pump. Hard not to buy the jabao DP-4, price wise, but I've had several pieces of Jabao branded equipment fail on me, and I'm not a fan. Other 4 head dosing pumps... seems like the way to go might be with the Kemoer X4. A little high tech for me, but it's that, or a master and slave of the Eshopps brand, which isn't going to save me any money. I guess I could buy another PB4 for my Reefkeeper and 4x BRS 1.1ml dosers... still not saving me any money. Any other recommendations?
Thanks
1) What is the size of the 4x Core7 containers? I see lots of dosing info, and I think I've got a handle on how much I want to dose, when I want to start, but I'm trying to calculate costs... and I can't find the size of the bottles _anywhere_.
2) Bare bottom tank. Yeah, I see that the method calls for a shallow sand bed, and I may well go that way, but it's not my current plan. This will be a 5' long, 30" wide tank, mounted peninsula style. I'm going to have to generate mucho flow all at one end in order to keep the kind of flow I'm wanting. I'm afraid a sand bed, anything finer than large particle crushed coral, is going to blow all over the place. Can the method be followed with a bare bottom system successfully? I was thinking perhaps some siporax in the sump to help make up for the lost bio filtration space.
3) Dosing pump. Hard not to buy the jabao DP-4, price wise, but I've had several pieces of Jabao branded equipment fail on me, and I'm not a fan. Other 4 head dosing pumps... seems like the way to go might be with the Kemoer X4. A little high tech for me, but it's that, or a master and slave of the Eshopps brand, which isn't going to save me any money. I guess I could buy another PB4 for my Reefkeeper and 4x BRS 1.1ml dosers... still not saving me any money. Any other recommendations?
Thanks