Bored? How about Mentoring a Newbie?

[RtomKinMad]

Hmmm. Something going on there. I just do not want overwhelm this thread so I will not get in to it. If you like start a thread about it and call me. We can work on couple of things. No promises but we can try to debug...

Cool thank you!

 

[road_runner]

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[Scott Christenson]

Btw when you do water change careful do not put too much water that if return pump of off, you system flood.
Best way to do that is: turn off your return pump and let water drain to the sump.
Then siphon all water out of the sump. Clean it. Then fill in the sump with the new water until all sump is full to the top minus half an inch or so. Then turn on your return pump. This way if return pump failed and stopped working, your sump will not fill up and over flow. It will fill up to the point you originally filled it. Once you do that adjust your ATO floats to the new operational water level.
So basically this firstbwater change you will not be able to vacume the sand or take water out from the DT. Which is ok. Next time you can do that.

Unless you can precisely estimate how much water you can pull put of the system them push in without overflowing your sump.

If later we wanted to increase the water level in the sump more, I can walk you through how you do that( it will be a matter off your return and overflow pipe height inside the display tank that decide how drain water go in to the sump when return pump is off)...I hope am not confusing you here..kind of hard to explain in txts...

Nope, I'm following you, thanks for the steps

 

[Scott Christenson]

Did you want the salinity at 35?

 

[ZoWhat]

long distance mentoring works about as well as long distance dating. lol.

intentions are good at first but the relationship quickly fades

I say just rely on posting questions here and getting a bunch of input from diff sources

 

[road_runner]

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[Katrina71]

I'm happy to see you asking questions! I'm even happier that you are willing to adopt a tank.

 

[road_runner]

Did you want the salinity at 35?

Did you twat salinity of your new salt water before you use it?
Did you test salinity if your tank before water change?

How did you test and what was the value?

 

[Scott Christenson]

Cleaning right now, will have those answers soon.....

 

[road_runner]

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[Scott Christenson]

WOW, so now I know why you asked me to do this. My tank is at 35.1. Saltwater from lfs is at 29.8. I used a digital Hannah and refractometer. So, I'll work on getting the lfs water to 35 now.

 

[Scott Christenson]

I took 10 gallons out and will put 10 gallons back in.

 

[road_runner]

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[Scott Christenson]

Will do, on a side note, we need to make this mentoring relationship work to prove all of these naysayers wrong

 

[road_runner]

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[Scott Christenson]

When you get time can you also please send those sock replacement ideas my way?

 

[road_runner]

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[Scott Christenson]

So how would that work in my sump?

 

[road_runner]

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[Scott Christenson]

So could I just place a filter pad on top of the openings, make the pad large enough so that it doesn't fall into the hole?