 Re: The New Tank Setup
Hey Mattfish! I just saw this thread and thought Id post. Sorry so late.
Looks like a great set up. Right in the middle of everything!
MMMMmmmm....but all the fish....all the dosing? Dont care who set it up or what they told you. Its too much unless they designed the system for that much bio load with a way oversized skimmer and some serious flow to get the crap to the overflow with no dead spots in the tank. Let me tell you IMO whats going to eventually happen. With all that dosing and feeding, over time, you are going to get a build up of phosphates in your LR and substrate. You will think everything is going along fine for 5-6-7-8-9 mos until those phosphates are going to show up and then all sorts of bad stuff is gonna show up. You will be helpless in the effort to rid your tank of this. It will run its course. Thats just my thoughts on the subject of all the dosing and feeding. Are you running any phosphate removal media? Could be totally wrong. I am by no means an expert but I do hang out on some other forums and belong to a couple large clubs with a few thousand members and...I see or hear of this happening at least once a week. I know of a couple people here that you would respect their opinion that would concur with what I have said if they would be bold enough to say whats happend to them in the past.
Hey I dont have a perfect tank either. I battle some of the bad stuff like others here too  |