Discus Hans USA Fish House Tour : EXTREME LOAD WARNING!

[riu]

This means I can brake down the filters and got some extra space, guess what??????...........................MORE TANKS

That imagined

Some questions about your installation.

1-How do you control that the foam 1 is dry and 2 and 3 are wet? How do you control the water level?

2-What are the holes in the picture?

3-The water rises at different heights with the same bomb? The water, not lose power for more height?

4-The dry wet of room 2, makes more bacteria for the nitrogen cycle that the system of the room 1?


I also have discussions Stendker, there are many in Spain

Greetings

Raul

 

[Discus-Hans]

That imagined

Some questions about your installation.

1-How do you control that the foam 1 is dry and 2 and 3 are wet? How do you control the water level?

2-What are the holes in the picture?

3-The water rises at different heights with the same bomb? The water, not lose power for more height?

4-The dry wet of room 2, makes more bacteria for the nitrogen cycle that the system of the room 1?


I also have discussions Stendker, there are many in Spain

Greetings

Raul

Raul,

1. That's just matter of filling the filter so far (while the pump is running) that 2 are under water and the top one is above.

2 All racks are back to back on 1 system. The holes connect the "filter boxes" under each rack. because 2 "boxes" are on 1 pump, I connected the 2. sumps together. If the pump for what ever reason takes to much from 1 side, the water will , because of the holes (with a pipe to the other side) stay on level and not in the worst case over flow on one side.

3. If I under stand well you mean the same water flow in each tank, top or bottom row??? Each tank has a valve that we can adjust. The tanks close to the pump at the bottom row get (without a valve) more water as the last tank on the line at the top. To adjust the valves took me a while.
I balanced the valves as good as possible, drained all the tanks when I was done and plugged the pump back in, by keeping an eye on the speed they filled up, I adjusted them here and there. Now all tanks have +/- the same flow rate.

4. Raul, before I started Discus Hans USA, I did Discus more or less as hobby in Holland. I've build a few systems over the years but I'm just a screen printer (was in the t-shirt/textile printing +/- 22 years) I'm not a professor in water science, nor a plumber, nor carpenter, etc. I learn all my things more or less the hard way.
I thought the filter in room 2 (old system) was THE way to go. Now it's running for 3 years I see things I over looked. Hard to flush, etc.
When I feed my Discus I see a low Ph drop in my water, when I skip a feeding it stays stable, so my filter can handle the amount of Discus but the feeding can drop it over the edge.
The new system works better in many ways, Ph drop is lower, if I flush the filter (by every water change) I can see how much dirt is coming from under my filter foam. Maybe in 3 years I build a complete new, better system, I don't know. But till now it's the best I designed

Hope this helps a little.

Yeah those Stendker Discus you see every were, you can't get away from them anymore

Hans

 

[Death Pony]

Those blue discus are gorgeous! Love these things.

 

[riu]

Hi Hans, I do some more questions I like your system and it seems to me curious.

I did an picture of you sump, is correct??

Also I made a plane of as up the water of the tanks, is ok??

Your system is really a revolution. Great work

Raul

 

[Discus-Hans]

This is correct Raul,

I will tell more later no time at the moment, have to run,

Hans

 

[Discus-Hans]

okay, if you build this, take the pipe coming FROM the pump to the tanks, cut it, put in a T, one pipe to the tanks and 1 to the drain. Make a valve to the tanks and 1 to the drain. Normal the one to the drain is closed, to the tanks open.
If you change those you can drain your filter, if done, refill your sump, switch the valves and your up an running again,

Hans

 

[Discus-Hans]

Btw I didn't notice but my return system is a little different.

the pipe from the pump goes all the way up and at the top is going 1 pipe down for 3 tanks (in your drawing)
So no pipe above each row but one pipe, all the way up and above each 3 tanks vertical down,

Hans

 

[Dkarc]

When I feed my Discus I see a low Ph drop in my water, when I skip a feeding it stays stable, so my filter can handle the amount of Discus but the feeding can drop it over the edge.
The new system works better in many ways, Ph drop is lower, if I flush the filter (by every water change) I can see how much dirt is coming from under my filter foam. Maybe in 3 years I build a complete new, better system, I don't know. But till now it's the best I designed

Hans

Try adding some form of alkalinity into your systems. With the high stocking density you have, alkalinity is being depleted pretty quickly by the bio filter. Low alkalinity will also hurt your bio filter (not work as efficiently). As a rule of thumb, for every pound of feed fed, 1/4lb of bicarbonate (alkalinity source) should be added to the system to maintain proper alkalinity and bio filter efficiency. By doing this, your pH will remain stable and your filters healthy.

-Ryan

 

[rucus]

Wow, thats all i can say. Wow

 

[Discus-Hans]

Try adding some form of alkalinity into your systems. With the high stocking density you have, alkalinity is being depleted pretty quickly by the bio filter. Low alkalinity will also hurt your bio filter (not work as efficiently). As a rule of thumb, for every pound of feed fed, 1/4lb of bicarbonate (alkalinity source) should be added to the system to maintain proper alkalinity and bio filter efficiency. By doing this, your pH will remain stable and your filters healthy.

-Ryan

Ryan,

I know if I add baking soda to my filters it will stay more stable, played a little with that in the past, now we do just big water changes to keep it stable,

Hans