The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
I got my 90 gallon tank off of Craig's list and I'm currently cycling it but then I realized how crappy of plumbing is on it and was wondering if there was anyway to improve that. Maybe adding a sump?
Also a lot of water goes into the overflow through the cutout for the return nozzle. Would a spray pipe instead help this or give the live rock better flow?
just attach pvc to the bulkhead, and make appropriate bends where needed. but try to use 45's instead of 90's. and I wouldn't worry about the cutout for the return nozzle. you are gonna get a lil flow thru there no matter what
And ive been reading up on the wet dry filter nitrate factory thing and should I take out my bio balls now during the cycle or just leave them in there?
i personally believe that you COULD run bioballs, however, unless you are able to keep all 100% of them in a consistant waterflow, I find them highly inefficient. running live rock rubble as mentioned is a good idea
exactly, not to mention that they need to be "wet" to actually grow BB, any part or entire bioball that's not touched by water is simply taking up space.
So I am defiantly going to take out my bio balls so should I leave the drip plate on and let the water drip into the empty area? Or put something there instead
Just remove about 20% of bio balls at a time so you don't remove all that bb at once. You could place live rock rubble in place of bio balls. I've ran into same scenario when I set my system up and never had a crash, so you should be fine. Just remember everything done in a reef should be done slow. Happy reefing!