Beneficial bacteria question

[esoxlucius]

Ok cool... because i only get around 5 gph flow from my RO unit (mineral buffers included in the unit). I take out around 100 gal of my tank water every WC, so i figured i would need 20 hours more or less to fill in the tank back in. For that time being i cant use my sump. Hence this issue bothers me.

But i guess i can say it is safe from yall feedbacks and experiences?

Hehe im here to learn.

Why ask if you only wish to hear what you wanna hear

I dont mind critics as long as it is constructive

20hrs to fill your tank back up!!! I can understand why you started the thread now. I think you need to re-evaluate your current method of changing your water. Is there anything stopping you from using a hose pipe attached to mixer taps. Dose in your conditioner and away you go. 100g shouldn't take that long.

 

[skjl47]

need 20 hours more or less to fill in the tank back in.

guess i can say it is safe

Hello; 20 hours. OK, I do not think the bb will be a problem even tho I can not give proof. I do however see a potential for decay byproducts to build up in the sump. Seems a bubbler in the sump might be a simple and hopefully effective way to help with this potential issue.

i just wanted to know myself as well as other that raise the question.

Hello; I am not set up to conduct the sort of research to get a quantified answer. Advances in science have often been made by individuals doing the research on their own. I hope you take it on and can give us some definitive answers in the future.

 

[Jhay3513]

In my 55 I had a canister filter break on me and didn’t have enough money to replace it so I put two power heads in the aquarium for oxygenation and never had a cycle. The tank stayed like that for a month and a half until I built a sump for it. Never had a sick fish. The fish just continued as normal and i vacuumed the substrate once every two weeks during this time. Our B.B. is a lot tougher than we give credit

 

[mattison187]

This is a good read guys.

 

[giar]

20hrs to fill your tank back up!!! I can understand why you started the thread now. I think you need to re-evaluate your current method of changing your water. Is there anything stopping you from using a hose pipe attached to mixer taps. Dose in your conditioner and away you go. 100g shouldn't take that long.

Tap water problem. It contains 4ppm ammonia, 40ppm nitrate and 150 TDS. I could just put the water in a separate container and treat it first, but it is not an option for me since i have 2x 285 gal tanks. Lol

The water comes out from my RO unit have 1ppm ammonia 5ppm nitrate and 60 TDS.

 

[giar]

Hello; 20 hours. OK, I do not think the bb will be a problem even tho I can not give proof. I do however see a potential for decay byproducts to build up in the sump.

That is why i am planning to run an extra pump to pump the water from the clean water chamber back to the 1st chamber. So the sump will operates just like normal. What do u say?

 

[Drstrangelove]

Tap water problem. It contains 4ppm ammonia, 40ppm nitrate and 150 TDS. I could just put the water in a separate container and treat it first, but it is not an option for me since i have 2x 285 gal tanks. Lol

The water comes out from my RO unit have 1ppm ammonia 5ppm nitrate and 60 TDS.

That underlined part confused me as a response. How does having 2x 285 gallon tanks force you to have one and only one possible method of changing your water? I've had hundreds of gallons (and others have thousands of gallons to change.) I had 3 completely different methods of water changing.

Why can't you simply process 100 gallons one day, then, when you have all 100 gallons completed, do the water change? You could do one tank one day and the other tank the next day, or two days later. People create barrels of water in prep for a water change all the time. It isn't my preference, but it's certainly an easy and doable method.

The water won't go bad in 24 hours, and if you want, you can add an air pump in the container to keep it aerated until the change.

 

[giar]

Thanks for the feedbacks. However With that method i need to prepare water almost everyday and it is not an option for me.

My 1st tank use overhead filter and canisters. It doesnt use sump. so i can just drain the water and fill the water slowly just fine. So i get no problem with that.

All my tanks use autodrip system, so each of them have an overflow to the backyard. Therefore i can just leave the tank while fillin the water and do my stuff.

And this 2nd 285 gal tank is the only one with sump

 

[esoxlucius]

Tap water problem. It contains 4ppm ammonia, 40ppm nitrate and 150 TDS. I could just put the water in a separate container and treat it first, but it is not an option for me since i have 2x 285 gal tanks. Lol

The water comes out from my RO unit have 1ppm ammonia 5ppm nitrate and 60 TDS.

That absolutely sucks, i feel for anyone who has sewage water as a starting point.