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April meeting 4/14 @ 7PM - Grant's house

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2007, 05:05:43 am »

Nacheetah calls the floating rocks creativity.  We thought we would give it more character and decided to silicone the smaller rocks to the glass and eventually we will have some frags or something cool growing on them.  As we are keeping an eye on the activity of the flow and current in the water we see that we have either alot of tiny bubbles or sand circulating or both.  Evidence in the sump tells us it's fine sand because we have a thin layer of what appears to be sand at the bottom.  We are debating if a smaller pump would do the job or doing away with the sand and maybe just having the larger crushed coral for the bottom.   Undecided

According to the graph on our hammerhead pump, it is pushing around 4500 gls and is recommended for a 300-500 gl tank so maybe it's too big.  We were told that it would work for our 125. Huh

Any suggestions?



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« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2007, 08:41:51 pm »

Do you have a gate valve on the outlet to control flow?  That might help.  Also, if you have anything else that needs a pump. ie a skimmer, you could T off of the return and use that pump.  That would help divert sme of the flow.
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« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2007, 12:47:49 am »

I still would not worry.  The fine silt is normal for a new batch of sand.  It will take some time to get out of the system.  Actually it is good that you are able to collect the fine silt in the sump, otherwise it would settle in the sand bed and prevent the water from flowing through the sand and keeping the nitrates from building up.  That is why we use a gravel vacuum on our sand beds to keep them clean.

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« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2007, 03:04:11 am »

Thanks for the advice.  Yes we have a gate valve but maybe we will do some modifying to see if we can ease the flow.
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