AngeleToR
05-27-2015, 05:22 AM
Hi guys,
Long time away, but I'm back thinking about improving my tank filtration adding a second algae scrubber to my setup. Right now I have a massive horizontal (sloped in fact) one (1.3 meters long x 30cm wide -> 50" x 11" in imperial units) with 70 watts red/blue lighting and 6000 liters/hours flow over it (1500gph approx).
The aquarium is 750 liters + 200 in the sump, almost 1000 liters total (260 gallons) and I still have some problem with algae and need to keep my skimmer on.
I have two pumps in the sump, first one only for the algae scrubber, second one for the rest (chiller, UV light, Ca reactor and back to the tank) same power both, set up as redundant so in case of fail both circuits can be operated by hust one, I have PVC valves to restrict flow as needed in that case so everithing will keep working just at half the flow while I fix the problem. No more flow outages at last. They total 12.000 liters/hour (3120gph) that I plan to take advantage of, here's how:
The amount of flow back is HUGE, I have LOTS of bubbles formed in the sump, as well as noise (not a problem, the display goes through a wall, so the noise is in the 'machinery' room) and I was thinking about building a scrubber modifying your drop design to directly receive the flow from the main display, and with the bubbles I already have in a natural 'ventury noisy' way I would need no air pump.
The return from the display is a pool type PVC, 50mm wide (1.5 inches if I'm correct) so I'm thinking to set up a box-type scrubber, attach that monster return to it and throw in a hell of light, in plain words. What do you think about it, could it be too much flow for algae to attach??
I will add a couple of pics of my sump in a while and will try to make a draft of my idea.
About lighting, at first I though to do a HOG type one. But now I'm really in love with the drop type, heat is not a problem for me as I use evaporation for cooling and auto-refilling and have the chiller as backup, I can easily cool down to 25-26ºC even in summer, and in winter I prefer to reuse all the heat available for the tank (I'm thinking about changing my expensive vortechs for cheap powerful Jebaos, go figure!!!). So LEDs will be 'water cooled', just need to figure a way to seal everything perfectly.
Thank you very much if you got this far reading, I just wanted to make clear my idea, will add pics soon to help explain myself.
Best regards and THANK YOU for your job, you're the best, man!!!!
Angel Cezon
Spain
Pics:
6017
6018
Long time away, but I'm back thinking about improving my tank filtration adding a second algae scrubber to my setup. Right now I have a massive horizontal (sloped in fact) one (1.3 meters long x 30cm wide -> 50" x 11" in imperial units) with 70 watts red/blue lighting and 6000 liters/hours flow over it (1500gph approx).
The aquarium is 750 liters + 200 in the sump, almost 1000 liters total (260 gallons) and I still have some problem with algae and need to keep my skimmer on.
I have two pumps in the sump, first one only for the algae scrubber, second one for the rest (chiller, UV light, Ca reactor and back to the tank) same power both, set up as redundant so in case of fail both circuits can be operated by hust one, I have PVC valves to restrict flow as needed in that case so everithing will keep working just at half the flow while I fix the problem. No more flow outages at last. They total 12.000 liters/hour (3120gph) that I plan to take advantage of, here's how:
The amount of flow back is HUGE, I have LOTS of bubbles formed in the sump, as well as noise (not a problem, the display goes through a wall, so the noise is in the 'machinery' room) and I was thinking about building a scrubber modifying your drop design to directly receive the flow from the main display, and with the bubbles I already have in a natural 'ventury noisy' way I would need no air pump.
The return from the display is a pool type PVC, 50mm wide (1.5 inches if I'm correct) so I'm thinking to set up a box-type scrubber, attach that monster return to it and throw in a hell of light, in plain words. What do you think about it, could it be too much flow for algae to attach??
I will add a couple of pics of my sump in a while and will try to make a draft of my idea.
About lighting, at first I though to do a HOG type one. But now I'm really in love with the drop type, heat is not a problem for me as I use evaporation for cooling and auto-refilling and have the chiller as backup, I can easily cool down to 25-26ºC even in summer, and in winter I prefer to reuse all the heat available for the tank (I'm thinking about changing my expensive vortechs for cheap powerful Jebaos, go figure!!!). So LEDs will be 'water cooled', just need to figure a way to seal everything perfectly.
Thank you very much if you got this far reading, I just wanted to make clear my idea, will add pics soon to help explain myself.
Best regards and THANK YOU for your job, you're the best, man!!!!
Angel Cezon
Spain
Pics:
6017
6018