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reefierone · 01/29/2008, 03:10 PM

anybody have problems with there maroon clown fish moving A LOT of sand

Bunkerbean · 01/29/2008, 03:37 PM

Yep. til he got a new home

reefierone · 01/29/2008, 03:59 PM

well that sucks he insists on seeing the bottom glass i was hoping maybe a mate or anenomie would fix the problem but not sure about adding an anenemie

usefulidiot213 · 01/29/2008, 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by reefierone
i have been kicking around the idea of adding a remote deep sand bed
i was hoping to get some input on this as i have no experience with deep sand beds
the display has about 1 1/2 of sand in it throughout so im thinking that this idea maybe pointless???
i was thinking of having the skimmer dump into a small sump i have laying around and filling it with about 6-8" of sand or mud as well as house the chaeato then feed it via gravity back into the sump which would be full of live rock rubble

if it goes as planed there would be no pump and i believe i could eliminate the two korilas that are in the sump right now

I am a big fan of a Deep sand bed, but I have never set up a remote one. The idea seems good. Just haven't done it myself yet. I use a 4" DSB in my Display tank. Does very well with keeping down Nitrates and feeding the tank. Just have to make sure there is nothing in the tank that's going to mess with it to much. Have to make sure you don't mix it up, or all kinds of bad happens..

reefierone · 01/29/2008, 05:02 PM

yeah thats y i wanted to have it contained in a separate tank so that nothing could stir it up. im not really sure how deep is too deep

reefierone · 01/29/2008, 05:15 PM

this is the sump i was thinking about using bc its already drilled another plus is that i have the option of running two skimmers not that this one compares to the octopus but why not use it also

so my idea is to have the skimmer pump pull from the area that the micron sock is in through the octopus and dump into this sump which would have about 6-8" of sand and cheato then over flow into the second skimmer section then overflow through the two bulkheads and back into the 75g sump to the area just after the micron sock
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reefierone · 01/29/2008, 07:14 PM

man this stuff is rank

reefierone · 01/29/2008, 07:33 PM

reefierone · 01/29/2008, 07:34 PM

01/29/2008, 03:10 PM	#26
reefierone Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: memphis TN Posts: 171	anybody have problems with there maroon clown fish moving A LOT of sand

01/29/2008, 03:37 PM	#27
Bunkerbean Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: McDonough, GA Posts: 298	Yep. til he got a new home

01/29/2008, 03:59 PM	#28
reefierone Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: memphis TN Posts: 171	well that sucks he insists on seeing the bottom glass i was hoping maybe a mate or anenomie would fix the problem but not sure about adding an anenemie

01/29/2008, 05:02 PM	#30
reefierone Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: memphis TN Posts: 171	yeah thats y i wanted to have it contained in a separate tank so that nothing could stir it up. im not really sure how deep is too deep

01/29/2008, 05:15 PM	#31
reefierone Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: memphis TN Posts: 171	this is the sump i was thinking about using bc its already drilled another plus is that i have the option of running two skimmers not that this one compares to the octopus but why not use it also so my idea is to have the skimmer pump pull from the area that the micron sock is in through the octopus and dump into this sump which would have about 6-8" of sand and cheato then over flow into the second skimmer section then overflow through the two bulkheads and back into the 75g sump to the area just after the micron sock ??????????????????????

01/29/2008, 07:14 PM	#32
reefierone Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: memphis TN Posts: 171	man this stuff is rank

01/29/2008, 07:33 PM	#33
reefierone Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: memphis TN Posts: 171

01/29/2008, 07:34 PM	#34
reefierone Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: memphis TN Posts: 171