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    elmo, you'd love these clowns...

    Looks like inbreeding too much or something
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    HI. Back after the weekend. After testing everything I could think of, I have come up with this as the problem: The water level in the inside o/f box and the level in the outside o/f box is not different enough to siphon the water fast enough. The only thin I can think of is to add another...
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    right now, I'll see you in a few! :)
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    (Oh, duh) :) The elbow on the standpipe stays at 3/4 to 1/2 submerged. Depends a lot on how much air I let in.
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    I'll have to take a picture. The U-tube is over the wall of the aquarium. So the top of the tube can't fill with water unles the room of the house fills that high with water (J/K) :) Both ends stay submerged (else it would not function) THe puzzling thing is that without the standpipe the...
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    If I remove the air tube or pull the cap, the water level rises pretty high and the inside o/f box level rises also. I may have to rebuild the standpipe using 1 1/4" instead of 1". I'm looking seriously at the stockman design. I also agree in balancing flow before quieting it down, I'm...
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    I already have them submerged. I am so confused. It really shouldn't be this hard to figure out, especially since I have done it before. :(
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    So, my 1" hole has a 1" pipe fitting on the top (insode of box) and a 3/4" in fitting on the outside (bottom) - it's a reducer fitting. SHouldn't this work? It worked on my last tank. ????
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    Okay, now I think we are on the same page, Ilike I said in the first post, I built a Durso style stand pipe. So, When we talk about a 1" bulkhead fitting, are we talking about the size of the hole the fitting fits in (i.e. the size of the hole drilled in the overflow box) or are we talking...
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    NO, It's not a drilled tank. I have overflow boxes. The tank is tempered. Also, the lines are 3/4" the standpipes are 1"
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    If I shorten the standpipe at all, the u-tubes will lose siphon if I lose power. (Same problem if I remove the stand pipe, even if I could stand the noise.
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    Problem is that the pump is about 1150 gph. THe overflow should handle 1200 gph. I had to throttle back the pump to 1/2 or less with a ball valve. Like I said, the standpiep seems to be the problem. If I pull it off, my flow is good, just VERY noisy (thus the invention of the standpipe. :) )...
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    Standpipe Too Slow

    Hi all. I had to restrict the flow from my sump to keep the main display from overflowing. The water wasn't emptying out of my overflow boxes fast enough. I have tinkered with several things, here is the run down: There are (2) 1" holes which are plumbed with 3/4" lines going to sump. The stand...
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    what is eating my coral?

    A nasty nudibrach. You'll want to get rid of them all, obviously. THat may be hard. I don'y know what species it is, but if it's eating your corals, it's bad news. Find a critter that eats nudi's. That would be my recommendation. Good luck, Monty
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    400lbs of sand....suggestions

    Some people disagree with rinsing your sand. The finer particles are better for biological growth. Your water will cloud for a little longer, but then it'll settle and you'll have a great bio filter. That is how I do it, and I know others that do it that way. I have used the regular home...
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    400lbs of sand....suggestions

    I just put sand in my 100 gal. two days ago. It took 200 lbs for 4"-5". THe dimensions of the bottom are 16"x72". If your dimensions are close to that 400 lbs is too much, unless you want a 6"-8" deep bed. To answer your question, I buy my sand at home depot and use a sand activator to seed...
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    id this

    Why not touch it or move the rock and see?
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    id this

    Looks like the legs of a starfish to me
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    Calcium too high?

    Actually, there was a massive die off of the blade caulerpa at first. It has now taken back off. There are still bits of the dieing plants in the tank. I was going to let them just finish being eaten and or decompose. It sounds like I should remove them asap. Given this info, does that...
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    Calcium too high?

    I haven't used "Large amounts" of reef builder. I have dosed it twice, maybe three times since setup over a month ago. I understand (mostly) what you are saying about teh precipitation of calcium, etc. My entire Bio-load right now is this: One molly, one strawberry pseudochromis, one yellow...
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