Ryan D's 55g Reef - Video update 5/06/13

Perfect!

Hopefully someone can chime in on your return pump issue.

 

Very nice vid!

 

Tank looks great Ryan, it has really come along.

Tang look like he has acclimated well.

 

Thank you. The tank definately isnt the algae ridden disaster it was once before!.

 

Love the activity in the tank! Thanks for sharing.

 

Nice man and nice looking tank

 

Ryan,

Nice assortment of coral!

** Why is the return bubbling? Is it from you skimmer? That can be fixed quite easily. Returns don't usually put bubbles back in the tank.

Nice video, Nice tank, thanks for sharing!

PS- the abrupt ending left me hanging, thought somehing was wrong with my puter! LOL

 

Awesome tank and awesome video man. I love videos and wish more people would do them.

I went back and watched it several times to see if I could troubleshoot your bubble problem. I too went through bubble problems. Your sump looks nice and quiet in the return section. I assume your reactor outputs go back into the return section, do you have them terminating under water? I was wondering if the reactors dumping back into the return section are creating the bubbles and your main return pump is sucking them up and dumping them into the display.

 

Thanks . Im going to make a concerted effort to make a few more videos. I am even looking at options to put my tank on a constant live stream!.

Thanks for looking Any tips send me my way!

Hahha I didnt think the ending was to abrupt lol. The return isnt bubbling because of the skimmer because the skimmer is in the first section and there are two sets of bubble traps between it and the return.Thanks for watching

All the reactor outputs terminate under the water. (even though the output of the NPX reactor will be moved this weekend to the skimmer section as per the recommendation by biocube). So there isnt any bubbles being created by those.

What I am thinking is it might be to do with the pvc I put in place as a diversion half way up the return piping, you can easily see it at 13:35. It was put in to divert flow away back to the skimmer section if the flow was to great. But turns out its not and I just have it closed with a ball valve. It could be letting water in.

Also, another thing is, if you look at the PVC onto the pump, the pump isnt tight to the PVC, I need to figure out a way to make a seal around it. Basically its just PVC sitting on top of the pump outlet.

Thanks for the advice

 

If the pump connection that u are talking about is above the water it could be sucking air through the loose connection