heavy organic unloads

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peninha

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dear MonsterFishKeepers

i presume this might be the 2million time the question is made but there is always a new guy to the hobby needing help. i am planning a 400 gallons tank to replace my present 100G. i am also planning to have a sump to filter all the heavy organic unloads of my fish... they have been growing and growing... 4 red oscars, 5 jaguar cichlids, 2 jack dempseys, 1 severum cichlid, 1 hiplesecara temporalis, 1 convict cichlid, all cichlids are between 5 and 8 inches and 12 loricarids most of them already passed 10 inches in length.
my question is, what kind of water intake should i use to help me pull all the really heavy sh... they make... cause i already make 20 G water changes everyday just to clean the bottom of my 100G. i dont want to be making 80 G water changes everyday on a 400 G tank...please help me
 
i dont know if this will work but if you had a water outlet near the bottom that could possiblly keep the waste from settling allowing it to be sucked up. or evenhave it so you can turn it on and off as needed? just a thought
 
A power head set low and angled to bounce the flow off the bottom would get the waste moving in the water so that more would be taken up by the filter intake.
 
that filter also has the water polishing filter that works great for my sea horse tank
 
hi guys,
thank you so much for all the great ideas, one year has gone by and my 400G tank is doing great...i took several of your advises into consideration and also decreased the organic load on the tank by selling some fish.
i used a lower water intake, i also used a couple of filters added to the sump flow, and i keep a powerhead low pointed and at an angle that pushes all the sh... towards the water intake... only thing i couldnt try was the reverse flow undergravel filter. and now i am a proud owner of a tank with the best test values i ever seen... i think when i add the freshwater skimmer i bought (Shuran Freshwater Jetskim 150) i'll start selling bottled water from my water changes, Evian & Perrier beware.... :ROFL:
thank you so much everyone
 
hi everybody
my Shuran Freshwater Jetskim 150 its pumping for a month already. my tank looks great, my fish are healthy and i am studying how to bottle water from my water changes. its amazing what a skimmer can do, it all happens before the dirt and non eaten food can eventually become amonia and nitrites, all disappears from the waters way before that. i think my bacterias are distributing ration tickets among themselves like in WW II. next step? increase the UVC power it has a 9W and a 16W working and i think i'll join in a 36W.... so any bacteria wondering the fields looking for a little bit of food will be ZAAAAPED!!!! can we kill them fish of excessive filtration????
 
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