She's Salty!
We're Salty!
Felt like forever to fill the tank with RO but got that done during the week and over the weekend she got filled with salt.
I added a liter of siporax from the mini to help seed it as well as a small piece of live rock. Also siphoned some water from the mini's sump sucking up some detritus, mysis and amphipods so they can get a head start.
Was pretty keen to try out the new quiet drain on this tank. Well to begin with it was both quiet and loud! lol
The actual overflow once set right is absolutely silent unless I put my ear right next to it. The drain below the tank is another story. The mixture of air and water when first set up sounded like my washing machine! I tried a variety of flow levels and positions for the hose but it was all the same.
After speaking to a fellow elos owner across the pond i put a valve on the drain so it runs full of water. Took a while to play around with but in the end it's basically silent and as it sits beside my mini at the moment it's a ton quieter.
Hopefully picking up my skimmer tomorrow and get that bad boy up and running.
Still have dosing lines to run, cords to tidy and dosing containers to setup.
Sand is on its way but think I'll hold off to put that in just yet.
Will keep an eye on parameters and see how we get on!
Felt like forever to fill the tank with RO but got that done during the week and over the weekend she got filled with salt.
I added a liter of siporax from the mini to help seed it as well as a small piece of live rock. Also siphoned some water from the mini's sump sucking up some detritus, mysis and amphipods so they can get a head start.
Was pretty keen to try out the new quiet drain on this tank. Well to begin with it was both quiet and loud! lol
The actual overflow once set right is absolutely silent unless I put my ear right next to it. The drain below the tank is another story. The mixture of air and water when first set up sounded like my washing machine! I tried a variety of flow levels and positions for the hose but it was all the same.
After speaking to a fellow elos owner across the pond i put a valve on the drain so it runs full of water. Took a while to play around with but in the end it's basically silent and as it sits beside my mini at the moment it's a ton quieter.
Hopefully picking up my skimmer tomorrow and get that bad boy up and running.
Still have dosing lines to run, cords to tidy and dosing containers to setup.
Sand is on its way but think I'll hold off to put that in just yet.
Will keep an eye on parameters and see how we get on!
:rofl
haha 
