As the water has warmed up and I've been feeding more the water has started having some foaming as organics are building up. Hiatt system are very efficient at gobbling up organics IME so I decided to add a small torpedo filter with 10 lbs of tribase carbon plus the Right Now bacteria. Out of dumb luck it was easy enough to install off of the wall mounted fountain and adjust the flow rate to the 600 gph I needed for the 10 lbs of carbon I used. It will be interesting to see if this small setup makes a difference on 25,000 gallons. Now I just need to build a cover for it. For those not familiar with Hiatt filtration you can read about it here http://saltaquarium.about.com/library/weekly/aa012899.htm
I've also been playing around with designs to get the ebb & flow system on my stock tanks to work better. It took a while to get a drain that would always start a siphon and always break the siphon. Finally came up with something that works all the time. There's a very small hole in the cap. I don't understand the physics of it but the siphon starts & breaks every time now and it lets me drain the drain tanks all the way down now.
I've also been playing around with designs to get the ebb & flow system on my stock tanks to work better. It took a while to get a drain that would always start a siphon and always break the siphon. Finally came up with something that works all the time. There's a very small hole in the cap. I don't understand the physics of it but the siphon starts & breaks every time now and it lets me drain the drain tanks all the way down now.
