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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / October 2007Naso Tang Messing the tank
My water is crystal clear in the morning, but by evening, the tang has passed so much crap that the water is full of debris. It's amazing how much that little guy eats & fouls the tank. 110 gallon, 600gph through sump. I have a protein skimmer and some floss which I change every-other day. I'm fishing for ideas on what else can I do? --Kurt > My water is crystal clear in the morning, but by evening, the tang has > passed so much crap that the water is full of debris. It's amazing how [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I'm fishing for ideas on what else can I do? How big is this fish now? > How big is this fish now? Started at 3", but he's up to 5". Fast little guy too. He has a hyper drive that he engages to cross the tank and duck in his hole in about 100 millisecs. >> How big is this fish now? > > Started at 3", but he's up to 5". > > Fast little guy too. He has a hyper drive that he engages to cross > the tank and duck in his hole in about 100 millisecs. I know exactly what you are talking about... I have a large hepatus tang myself and know what tang's hyper-drive means :-) maybe he would benefint from simply more circulation in the tank. if your sump pump is rated at 600gph, and has to lift the water 3-4 feet, then it may nto be 600gph anymore. depends on how the pump is rated. Myself, i hear that if you have a refuge, like i do on the 60 gal over here, then a slower flow is recommended, so then i need to supplement with 1 or 2 700gph pwerheads for good tank circulation. So, possibly, with 'more' flow, the stuff will hit teh bottom and stay there faster. possibly its not really 600gph, but close to maybe 400gph, and for such a big tank, maybe the flow is actually slow and the stuff is hangin in the water column since it cant find its way to the floss fast enough. > maybe he would benefint from simply more circulation in the tank. if > your sump pump is rated at 600gph, and has to lift the water 3-4 feet, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > is hangin in the water column since it cant find its way to the floss > fast enough. actually, rephrasing my last sentence, maybe it cant find its way to the bottom fast enough. The floss may not find it any faster either way, since the sump is still pumping at the same rate. Im thinking an increased circulation will help it find the overflow siphon, and also help pound it into the substrate as well, hope you have a good maintenance crew behind this to take care of the grounded mess if this works. Most people have a sump with some water flowing from the sump up to the tank, and then back down to the sump again. Then they put some powerheads in the reef tank to increase water flow to where it should be. Then you look in the tank, you see the same particles of stuff, going around and around and around. The way I like to do it is to have live rock rubble filtration in the sump, and have one big pump doing all of the water flow. Then the reef tank gets good turn over. Wayne Sallee Wayne@WayneSallee.com KurtG wrote on 10/17/2007 9:18 AM: > My water is crystal clear in the morning, but by evening, the tang has > passed so much crap that the water is full of debris. It's amazing how [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > --Kurt |
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