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06-25-2003, 03:31 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: colorado springs
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Tank Milk shake
I just put LS in to the tank yesterday. Should I let everything settle or should I hook up a filter? I have a overthe back filter that I took off my last aquarium.
Chris
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125 gal
2 under tank filters.3 overflows. 2 Power heads 2 oceanrunner OR 6500
30 LBS LS, 150 lbs LR
,2 perc clowns, 1 med hippo tang, 1 med yellow tang, 1 bi color blenny, 1 royal gramma, 1 carpenter flassher wrasse, 1 tri color wrasse.
Snails , mushrooms, open brain, ball sponge, 3 gorgonian, hammer, bubble, frog spawn, devils hand, toad stool, xina, BTA, pogda, star polups, pipe organ.
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06-25-2003, 03:34 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Chris you can hook up the filter it wont hurt anything.
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06-25-2003, 03:34 PM
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www.pris-MATIC.com
Join Date: Mar 2003
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I would let it settle...
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06-25-2003, 03:35 PM
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Professional newbie!
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Waukesha, WI
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How long has your tank been established? You don't want to remove the fine grains of sand and thats exactly what your PF will do to you. The bacteria is what binds the finer grains of sand together and keeps them in place.
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06-25-2003, 04:04 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: colorado springs
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it isnt established....cycleing
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125 gal
2 under tank filters.3 overflows. 2 Power heads 2 oceanrunner OR 6500
30 LBS LS, 150 lbs LR
,2 perc clowns, 1 med hippo tang, 1 med yellow tang, 1 bi color blenny, 1 royal gramma, 1 carpenter flassher wrasse, 1 tri color wrasse.
Snails , mushrooms, open brain, ball sponge, 3 gorgonian, hammer, bubble, frog spawn, devils hand, toad stool, xina, BTA, pogda, star polups, pipe organ.
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06-25-2003, 04:14 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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running the filter will hurt nothing I always run mine on start up helps to get it oxygenated .
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06-25-2003, 04:19 PM
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Professional newbie!
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Interesting. I'd think the carbon filters in a Power filter would catch the fine sand present in a "milkshake" and not let it settle.
I'm prolly wrong. Lord knows its not the first time and most certainly won't be the last. 
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06-25-2003, 04:21 PM
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Eat more PIE
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I actually take out the carbon and just use the filter to move the water 
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06-25-2003, 04:32 PM
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i agree with the let the filter just move the water and not let it trap any goodies. either fine grains or bacterial wastes. it will take several days for it to settle. it makes you wonder if it ever will. 
all you can do is wait it out.
G~
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06-26-2003, 10:48 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Geoff
i agree with the let the filter just move the water and not let it trap any goodies.
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Ditto.
The fine sand granules have so much more surface area per equal volume (more granules with more surface) that act as the substrate for bacterial biofilms to populate. This will start out as a series of nuisance blooms, but will change over to nice clean sand one the competition for new real estate is established and your tank matures. Think of the coming algal blooms as growing grass for the "next level" of consumers in the tank. Primary production must occur first before more complex life forms can be supported. Keeping the fines makes it occur with greated population densities as each specie blooms. You are encouraging complex food chains from the bottom up.
Heh! Let the feeding frenzie begin!
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06-26-2003, 12:04 PM
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Summer's Daddy
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Lawrenceville, Ga in a van down by the river
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I actually run the filter with a very coarse filter plate (mine has those plastic screens to sqaush the filter material in between) it wont catch the fine particles but seems to help calm everything down.
Ray
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