Issue With Mixing Synthetic Salt In Water

[seffieuk]

Just been an had a look at ebay and googled, seems lots of people from Dubai use the American ebay site

Seffie x

 

[achit]

Hummm..that can be an option. I will take a look at it and see what I can find.... Shipping here is always a problem though. If I had known that I would be getting into this hobby, I would have bought some equipment from the states when I was living there and bought it over here
Worth a look still, otherwise you will see a TL 550 with 6 powerheads sticking out of it

 

[achit]

Out of curiosity, what is the flow provided by the stock pump in the tank (is there even one? Im assuming its there somewhere and water is pumped back out through the spraybar). So its a 20x flow after taking the base flow of the setup into consideration ? Also, I have a 900 l/hr internal power filter lying around at home. I can use that to supplement my flow, but internal filters are pretty bulky looking. Is it worth setting that up inside the tank aswell ? If so, should I just keep the filter sponge media thing inside (which I know im going to have to clean out every week) or keep it empty ?

Also, the 24Wx2 stock PC lighting seems a bit underpowered for any reef setup. it works out to about 1.75 Watts per Gallon. How are your corals faring in that Seffie ? I noticed both you and Trod have mushrooms and colt leather corals listed in your profile.

On another note, in my visit to the LFS today, I saw he had so many nice inverts and corals. It really makes me think about a coral/inverts only setup for my tank. If I were to do it this way, whats the bioload/maintainance requirement like. I'm guessing it will be a lot lighter than a tank with fish.

 

[Trod]

The lighting for softies is fine, seffies toadstool is amazing, absolutely beautifull, mine is going through a sulking period at the moment but hopefully will pick itself up soon. xenia's also do well, and mine is growing like a weed, my mushroom came with my LR and it has trebled in size so it must like it
Zoa's and ricordia's are also a good choice, and my green star polyp is doing well under the lights, so if you want to go down the softie route you have plenty of choice
Should just mention my colt coral didn't survive it never really settled in, I shall duly take that off my profile

 

[seffieuk]

Out of curiosity, what is the flow provided by the stock pump in the tank (is there even one? Im assuming its there somewhere and water is pumped back out through the spraybar).

Yes the stock pump, pumps the water through the spray bar - the spray bar needs to be angled up to create surface agitation - does quite a good job actually

So its a 20x flow after taking the base flow of the setup into consideration ? Also, I have a 900 l/hr internal power filter lying around at home. I can use that to supplement my flow, but internal filters are pretty bulky looking. Is it worth setting that up inside the tank aswell ? If so, should I just keep the filter sponge media thing inside (which I know im going to have to clean out every week) or keep it empty ?

I wouldn't even bother counting the stock pump I would not put an internal filter in there, will spoil how the tank looks and be a nitrate factory - I got rid of the sponge straight away, but Trod kept hers

Also, the 24Wx2 stock PC lighting seems a bit underpowered for any reef setup. it works out to about 1.75 Watts per Gallon. How are your corals faring in that Seffie ? I noticed both you and Trod have mushrooms and colt leather corals listed in your profile.

Yeah we both still have the t5 bulbs and they are fine for my requirements I also have a couple of hard corals, I just keep them high up, a lovely hammer and a frogspawn

On another note, in my visit to the LFS today, I saw he had so many nice inverts and corals. It really makes me think about a coral/inverts only setup for my tank. If I were to do it this way, whats the bioload/maintainance requirement like. I'm guessing it will be a lot lighter than a tank with fish.

Yes the bioload would be lighter, but think you will want at least a couple of fish swimming around they add entertainment value and movement to the tank

Seffie x