I have a 600 gallon mix cichled tank, with about 1100 total gallons and 300 plus fish from 8 inches down to little baby and everywhere In between. I bought about 190 fish and they have been breeding for over a year now. My bio load is extremely high as I feed 8 big teaspoons of pellets twice a day and 4 sheet of seaweed a day.
For nutrition export I have 2 algae scrubber one of the large ice cap and one of the large clearwater scrubbers. I also have one pothos plant not one vine one whole plant from a planter maybe 6 or 7 vines 12-20 inches long and I also employ a drip water change system that will be turned off for this test.
I filled a TS3 sulfur denitateor reactor with biochar and I am running about 800 GPH through the media. I noticed when putting the biochar in I was able to tap the bottom of the reactor on the ground and fit alot more in. I like this because the tighter they are packed together the less likely they are to channel water.
I have three 5 gallon buckets with 1 40ppi and two 20ppi sponges for macanical filtration and I also have a 48sqft DE filter that I only run a few hours a week. I can go about 3 days between cleaning the sponges. I do not vacuum the tank.
PH is 7.6-8.2 this depends on how much water I am dripping in the system as my well water has a PH of 7.0
Nitrates are 30 ppm
I am hoping to see these drop the pictures below are my baseline any reduction will be a success because I don't have the drip system running, my tanks nitrates would normally rise.
I can't wait to see if this work!!!!! I have tried AGC and I had some Geo's get HITH. When I stped using it it started to clear up. I don't know why this happened I have used activated carbon before and never had a problem.
I will be posting all my results on this thread.
If there is anything anyone wants to know of maybe have me try just let me know.
For nutrition export I have 2 algae scrubber one of the large ice cap and one of the large clearwater scrubbers. I also have one pothos plant not one vine one whole plant from a planter maybe 6 or 7 vines 12-20 inches long and I also employ a drip water change system that will be turned off for this test.
I filled a TS3 sulfur denitateor reactor with biochar and I am running about 800 GPH through the media. I noticed when putting the biochar in I was able to tap the bottom of the reactor on the ground and fit alot more in. I like this because the tighter they are packed together the less likely they are to channel water.
I have three 5 gallon buckets with 1 40ppi and two 20ppi sponges for macanical filtration and I also have a 48sqft DE filter that I only run a few hours a week. I can go about 3 days between cleaning the sponges. I do not vacuum the tank.
PH is 7.6-8.2 this depends on how much water I am dripping in the system as my well water has a PH of 7.0
Nitrates are 30 ppm
I am hoping to see these drop the pictures below are my baseline any reduction will be a success because I don't have the drip system running, my tanks nitrates would normally rise.
I can't wait to see if this work!!!!! I have tried AGC and I had some Geo's get HITH. When I stped using it it started to clear up. I don't know why this happened I have used activated carbon before and never had a problem.
I will be posting all my results on this thread.
If there is anything anyone wants to know of maybe have me try just let me know.
