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02-16-2008, 11:39 AM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Plankton
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Originally Posted by Otty  Never heard of that one before. Who cooked that saying up??  | Yea...I hear that a lot on forums--don't reurn more than your skimmer can handle. To me it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, given that unless your sump is somehow in-line, all of the water passing through your sump is not being skimmed anyway. I do know one guy who mounts his skimmer in an acrylic box inside his sump. All overflow water drains into the acrylic box and then the skimmer pours water into the sump. Unless you are running a really big skimmer (with a massive pump--I run a Mag-18 on my EV, and it would need to be bigger than that!), you are probably not going to match the desired flow rate for a reef tank. Right? | 
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02-16-2008, 03:34 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Well this gets close to the water I am returning but I don't have a 5,300g tank and I sure in the heck don't have $16,969.00 to spend on it either.  _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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02-16-2008, 03:44 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Plankton
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Originally Posted by Otty Well this gets close to the water I am returning but I don't have a 5,300g tank and I sure in the heck don't have $16,969.00 to spend on it either. | lol...I hear ya. I think the argument would go something like: Run less flow through your skimmer by getting a return pump and skimmer that would run 10x your system volume per hour. Then create the othe 30x GPH flow with a CLS. This makes sense if you have a sump-based refugium, but otherwise, I don't see that returning both skimmed and unskimmed water to the display tank is that detrimental to the health of the system. I certainly don't think it's worth 17k...lol. | |
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02-17-2008, 05:09 AM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Geeze otty i'm kinda dissappointed... I thought you were a high roller!!! 17k, I spent that on breakfast this morning!!
LOL I'm not looking forward to buying my mh's in the next month or so!!! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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02-17-2008, 09:27 AM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: South Florida Age: 42
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Originally Posted by Camilsky Have you ever heard about the Arichemdes Law?! Archimedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LOl...
Small hint no 1:
How many lbs of water will flush from a perfectly filled swimming pool if a 300lbs guy jumps into it ?! 
Small hint no 2:
What is the density of water at 25C ?! What is the volume of 1 gal of water under this temperature conditions ?! |
I thought that was a very good response. You know, teach a guy to fish and all.
Oh well. I appreciated it, Camilsky!
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90G display tank. Kent Phos Reactor running carbon and ROWAPhos, Coralife 225 Skimmer, Typhoon 5 Stage RO/DI, 20 Gal Sump/Refugium with Chaeto/Caulerpa lit opposite daylight cycle. Coralife 2x150MH, 14K + 2x96W PC Actinics, Ecotech Vortech propeller pump, Hydor Koralia #2.
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02-17-2008, 01:18 PM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Feather Star
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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Originally Posted by ReefSparky I thought that was a very good response. You know, teach a guy to fish and all.
Oh well. I appreciated it, Camilsky! | Thanks a lot sparky! We are here to educate! Knowledge is for free! Why not to use it?! I give hint, and somebody else passes some useful knowledge on me! | |
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02-18-2008, 05:00 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
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I would still need to know the temperature of the pool to answer your question. | |
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