Under Gravel filter

[Unregistered1]

125 6 foot long

It looks big i like the rock work

 

[Screwgunner]

125 6 foot

I would still watch parameters.

Nitrates 1 nitrites 0 ammonia 0 phosphates .06 calcium 425 alkalinity 10.2

 

[Unregistered1]

125 6 foot long

What type of lighting are you using if you dont mind me asking

 

[Screwgunner]

Salinity 8.4. 255 dollars for hanna test kit .anything else you want to know. I'm 57 years old . Thats all you get

 

[Screwgunner]

Viperspecter black boxs 3. 145 dollars a piece blues at 100 percent whites at 20 percent

 

[Screwgunner]

8 hours a day 16 hours of light on my algea scrubber two screens clean one a week the other the next week no protienskimmer running charcoal and gfo . About 7 table spoons of each per 2 weeks. Soon as my phosphates hit .03 I will cut back on gfo.

 

[Unregistered1]

8 hours a day 16 hours of light on my algea scrubber two screens clean one a week the other the next week no protienskimmer running charcoal and gfo . About 7 table spoons of each per 2 weeks. Soon as my phosphates hit .03 I will cut back on gfo.

Doesn't your Gfo run counter productive to your algae scrubber?

 

[Unregistered1]

Just wondering why your doing both GFO and Algae scrubber

 

[Uncle99]

That is interesting , I never heard about that style before. Did it not work well?

For what it’s worth, this tank below running 4 years on “under gravel filter”

Old ways not always bad ways.

 

[Unregistered1]

For what it’s worth, this tank below running 4 years on “under gravel filter”

Old ways not always bad ways.

I am in full agreement that UGF work....And RFUG

 

[Unregistered1]

For what it’s worth, this tank below running 4 years on “under gravel filter”

Old ways not always bad ways.

Nice tank bay the way

 

[Unregistered1]

For what it’s worth, this tank below running 4 years on “under gravel filter”

Old ways not always bad ways.

I was referring to the plenum style in the quote you quoted of mine

 

[Uncle99]

It’s a good system if done correctly.
I believe member PaulB has run one for more than 4 decades.

 

[Jekyl]

It’s a good system if done correctly.
I believe member PaulB has run one for more than 4 decades.

I'm just over 2 years

 

[Screwgunner]

For what it’s worth, this tank below running 4 years on “under gravel filter”

Old ways not always bad ways.

That is spectacular, very nice I hope mine look half that good in 5 years

Doesn't your Gfo run counter productive to your algae scrubber?

My rock was high in saturated phosphates the scrubber was bringing it down like .02 every week and if I feed any flake food that took the.02 drop away so I decided to get some rowa never again when it is gone .no more rowa for me. Going back to phosgaurd. Any way tank started out at .76 phosphate algea scubber brought it down to .36 on its own .put in what phosgaurd i had took it to .16 over a week then started rowa nasty dirty stuff. But I am at .06 and algea on scubber looks alot better no nasty slim just green turf. That is a good point think I will take gfo out and see what happens now.

 

[Unregistered1]

Please close and lock this thread im leaving this board