refuse question

njhadfield · 03/27/2011, 02:46 PM

I have a eshopps 100 or 20 gallon sump which came with a sponge for micro bubbles but I know if I kept the sponge in the sump I nitrates could explode. So I but in some baffles but never thought about seperating the baffles out enought to put in a refusium. So,,,,I put cheato inbetween the baffles where the sponge would be and the cheato is doing great and now I am getting a very minor water fall effect, I am guessing from not having enough room to grow out, there growing towards each other basically forming another form of filtration. Phosphates are 0 because All water has to flow through the cheato. Is there anything wrong with this set up?

bertoni · 03/27/2011, 02:56 PM

That depends on what would happen if the Chaetomorpha area gets blocked up completely. I'd be careful about this sort of setup. A picture might help a lot.

njhadfield · 03/27/2011, 03:00 PM

if you look at a eshopps sump...where the sponge filter sets into...about 4 inches deep and about the same wide and side to side. I can't emagine it to plug. I could only see that if one side got pluged and there would be an increase of water flow on the other side which I couldn't emagine it to plug.

bertoni · 03/28/2011, 06:29 PM

If it's not going to plug, I wouldn't worry.

03/27/2011, 02:46 PM	#1
njhadfield Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: redmond oregon Posts: 50	refuse question I have a eshopps 100 or 20 gallon sump which came with a sponge for micro bubbles but I know if I kept the sponge in the sump I nitrates could explode. So I but in some baffles but never thought about seperating the baffles out enought to put in a refusium. So,,,,I put cheato inbetween the baffles where the sponge would be and the cheato is doing great and now I am getting a very minor water fall effect, I am guessing from not having enough room to grow out, there growing towards each other basically forming another form of filtration. Phosphates are 0 because All water has to flow through the cheato. Is there anything wrong with this set up? __________________ Nathan Hadfield Current Tank Info: 90 gallon tall reef tank

03/27/2011, 02:56 PM	#2
bertoni RC Mod Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mountain View, CA, USA Posts: 88,616	That depends on what would happen if the Chaetomorpha area gets blocked up completely. I'd be careful about this sort of setup. A picture might help a lot. __________________ Jonathan Bertoni

03/27/2011, 03:00 PM	#3
njhadfield Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: redmond oregon Posts: 50	if you look at a eshopps sump...where the sponge filter sets into...about 4 inches deep and about the same wide and side to side. I can't emagine it to plug. I could only see that if one side got pluged and there would be an increase of water flow on the other side which I couldn't emagine it to plug. __________________ Nathan Hadfield Current Tank Info: 90 gallon tall reef tank

03/28/2011, 06:29 PM	#4
bertoni RC Mod Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mountain View, CA, USA Posts: 88,616	If it's not going to plug, I wouldn't worry. __________________ Jonathan Bertoni

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