hummers 55gal all wet

[hummer]

here is the micron bag that my boss gave me it ia working great i 2 together and no more micro bubbles........yaya


i put them in where my overflow pipes go right into them

[spookey]

nice hummer.. im going to start redoing my 55g canopy and stand this weekend should be fun and my gf is going to help this time al right


chris

[bobert]

good job!!!!!!!!!!! looking good

[hummer]

good luck spookey take you time ....i think thats the secret

[stevebla]

Hummer great looking tank!!! Will motivate me to work on my 55 and get her running a little better. I have a question about flow in your sump you run a mag 18 ? How wide is your sump and how deep is the water? three questions anyway. The reason I ask is that on my 100g I am setting up i will need more flow in it and am trying to figure how much flow i cam manage in sump.

[hummer]

well my sump is 36"long 18" at it two widest parts except for 6 inches worth its10" because of the rear bracing in the center for the most part of the sump the water is 10"deep

im totaly new too salt but i wish thay would a made a mag 20 pump imo.. i thing that would of work better. i think i could of used a little more flow..for me im using my sump more like a closed loop system with a built in refuge that has very slow flow going too it
hope this makes sence to you

[stevebla]

Hummer it is helpful information thank you. I made a sump for the LFS guy in town and he going to do other things with his filtration and is going to sell it to me today. It is 4' long 12" wide and something like 16 high with 6 baffles. I will get to experiment during fresh water test I will post photos it will be funny seeing how many pumps i can fit in return chamber. can't test micro bubbles in fresh .

[Iconz]

Hmm, not to hijack your thread bob, but I'd like to address a part of Steve's question... Flow through the sump....

You really don't want more than 10-12x through a sump, and you want about 5x through your fuge. You want your water to have as much contact time in the sump (with the skimmer) as possible. So, slower is better. So, for instance, in you 100g tank, I'd go with about a 1000 - 1200gph return pump. Then, for the rest of your flow, I'd go with a closed loop manifold (CLM) or powerheads (PH's) whichever you prefer. CLM is more work, but usually looks alot better and you have more options with flow direction. Also, don't get a CLM and a RM (Return manifold) confused, alot of people do. I would sugguest something like a mag 12 or 18 for your return. And probably something from the Sequence line for a CLM (like a dart or a barracuda). But, that's just me.

[Sweetpea]

Okay, I'm going to re-hijack this thread... Bob, can I get one of those bags from you?

[hummer]

here are some pics of the cleanig crew i got

in the first pic are the snails i have 3 of them bu cant remember name of them

i also have 2 nassarius but there burroud in the sand some where....lol


pic # 2 is my blue leg hermets i have 3 of them and behind him is one of the red ones i have 6 of the red leg hermets

the last pic is my peperment shrimp almost lost him yesterday he got cought in my over flow box... but he is ok ,,,,, and he ate all my abstsyshas...