Re: [GSAS-Member] Sumps and Willows

["simion" <info@simion.info>]

Thanks, Cliff!

Sandu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clifford Miller" <clifford@clevergeek.com>
To: "Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat" <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Sumps and Willows


>
> Shango,
>
> Usually only for salt systems (and there are people on this list with
> vastly greater experience than myself in relation to salt systems (and
> most other things...)), think canister filter with no lid.  There are
> ultra-expensive high end sumps on the market, but most people just
> compartmentalize a cheap tank plumbed beneath their main tank.
>
> This allows you to run most of your equipment (heaters, skimmers, uv, etc)
> out of sight, increases your water volume for a little more stability, and
> gives you a separate spaces to hold non-compatible items like reef
> troublemakers or aggressive fish waiting to be re-homed, rotifers and
> amphiopods for live food, or plants/sand/mud and mechanical/biological
> filtration.
>
> Sandu,
>
> Cuttings from willow trees root readily (in fact they contain a chemical
> that can be used as a rooting agent for other plant cuttings) and do well
> in marshy conditions, so they do reasonably well emersed (but not
> submerged) in a tank.  I've also used Mint and Watercress for this in the
> past, but they can't deplete the nutrients as fast as a willow branch, so
> they don't clear things as quickly.  Another reasonably quick method is to
> remove the fish and throw in some daphnia...they're all about eating green
> water (but pretty much any fish will eat them much more quickly than they
> can eat the green water).
>
> Cliff
>
>
>
>> So let me repeat that...people plant this plant in their sump?  Isn't 
>> that
>> a
>> closed device?  I don't have any experieince with that.
>>
>> Thanks for tolerating this totally noob question.
>>
>> Shango
>>
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