Recent content by Sco453

Jsong Thanks for the advice. Splitting the syphons into 4 or more is a good idea, like you say it gives good contingency. I've been looking at the emergency drain system too, basically now I'm going with one on the display tank and the sump, hopefully they should never see water but I think if...

Angels can be quite the bully when they want to be too!!!!! :D

jsoong Thanx for the reply. It will be drilled in several places, I've attached a PDFwith a rough mock up of how it will look. I'm going for a weir in one corner with a Durso system to keep the noise down. As I'm scaling up from usually 3 & 4 foot system to as you say a monster tank, I looked...

Hi all Getting back into the tank after a few years away from my passion. Good times, my partner wants to renovate the house and add an extension :brows: (there had do be some kind of trade off right???? :thumb:) Okay, heres some queries which I've been trawling through the web looking for...

I'm on the bigger is better side if you have a sump, purely because you can load up with bio balls etc. the level of bacteria will be proportional to 'system load' but if you have excess capacity then you have a safety factor built in. External canisters are okay and are great for loading up...

Bio media mate, fill it to the gunnals with the stuff in my opinion!!! Bio balls, alfacrog, anything that will allow bactria to grow on it!!! Some will say that you only need enough media for the number of fish and this is true but often does not allow for fluctuations in water conditions and...

Hi all Getting back into the tank after a few years away from my passion. Good times, my partner wants to renovate the house and add an extension :brows: (there had do be some kind of trade off right???? :thumb:) Okay, heres some queries which I've been trawling through the web looking for...