Clarisea question

[Fisherman Joe]

Getting lots of detritus in my water column.

Tried running the true triton method with no mechanical filter but it’s bugging me.

I have 50mm pipe on my aquarium. If I went for something like a clarisea, that has 32mm pipe, how would I plumb this in?

Also would I lose a lot of flow having this 32mm section? Should I maybe try to adapt the clarisea for 50mm pipe?

 

[Billldg]

Bump

 

[Fisherman Joe]

Anyone got an idea here?

 

[Ayrity]

Anyone got an idea here?

I am redesigning my sump and am including a Clarisea myself. What I'm doing is plumbing directly from the overflow to the clarisea but I am also plumbing a T branch with a gate valve that will let me bypass the Clarisea, and go directly into the next chamber of my sump (essentially the fuge area). This will let me turn off flow to the clarisea if I need to remove it, but also allow me to adjust the amount of flow I want to be filtered. A lot of people say the rollers can drop nitrates to 0, and to have control over that, I may want to direct 2/3 of the flow through the clarisea, and 1/3 to avoid it or so.

You could do something similar and not restrict your flow. Just have some or most of the water go to the clarisea using a reduced, but have another adjustable output that goes elsewhere in the sump skipping it. Make that other branch the full size of your overflow diameter in case you want to turn flow off completely to the clarisea for repairs or other reasons.

 

[Fisherman Joe]

I have a 3 pipe down flow system. 90% goes down pipe A, 10% goes down pipe B.
I could plumb the clarisea to that pipe maybe.

I am having a real problem with low nitrates