Roller mat excessive rolling?

[Notsolostfish]

I have the red sea roller on legs in my sump. And i turned it on like few days ago.. i was heavy feeding the tank for a while. While the roller matt is off. Now its rolling like wild a day. Is that normal? I have high nutrients like 0.20 phosphate, and 15 nitrate with 2 clowns. Its crazy. But im up on my water changes. But is that normal for the roller to pull that much i have it on 0.6 length

 

[reefadam]

Which size mat and size of your tank? It’s definitely not uncommon for the first time you start running a mat that it uses it self up like crazy while it’s filtering out all the debris/ detritus, especially if you have been heavily feeding. if it persists longer than one roll I would look for other causes. Also, are you carbon dosing? That can exacerbate the clogging problem. I’ve also seen heavy frozen food use make it worse and clog easier.

 

[Notsolostfish]

Which size mat and size of your tank? It’s definitely not uncommon for the first time you start running a mat that it uses it self up like crazy while it’s filtering out all the debris/ detritus, especially if you have been heavily feeding. if it persists longer than one roll I would look for other causes. Also, are you carbon dosing? That can exacerbate the clogging problem. I’ve also seen heavy frozen food use make it worse and clog easier.

Its 200G tank. 150g display and 50G sump. And i dont use carbon. And roller is the red sea 1200

 

[reefadam]

I would say that’s appropriately sized. I ran one on a Red Sea max 900 around the same volume and after initial break and I would get around four weeks of usage per roll depending on feeding.

 

[C_AWOL]

The water level in the sump in relation to the roller might be too high. I keep my reefmats submerged only about 4" down and have an ultra high bioload tank to get a similar useage to yours.