View Full Version : Reef and a Diatome filter?
richm20
07-16-2007, 4:26 PM
Can I run my Diatome filter in my reef tank?
I don't know but would you give us tank specs? Interesting set-up you have there.
Reefscape
07-16-2007, 4:55 PM
yep, no reason at all why you cant use one....
What type have you got in mind? and the specifics asked by Grins would be good too..
Niko
richm20
07-17-2007, 6:27 PM
90 gal tank
20 gallon refg.
75 lbs live rock (more on the way)
I already have a Vortex D1 for my fresh water, but I wasn't sure how it would do with inverts and coral.
Thanks
emonemo420
07-17-2007, 6:29 PM
newb question but wat is that thing in the front?!?!?!?
Looks like a dragon pipefish or another type of pipefish to me. Way cool huh? Maybe one day I'll set up a seahorse/pipefish species tank.
90 gal tank
20 gallon refg.
75 lbs live rock (more on the way)
I already have a Vortex D1 for my fresh water, but I wasn't sure how it would do with inverts and coral.
Thanks
How long has the tank been set up? How are the pipefish and the clam doing? I love the pipefish but I'd be afraid those clowns would get food before it had a chance.
richm20
07-18-2007, 3:41 PM
The thing in the front is a Alligator pipe fish.
I feed him plankton, and at the same time I feed the others flake food so there is no real problem.
The tank has been set up for about 2 months now, but I used sand and live rock from a small FOWLR tank I had going for about 2 years.
I have had the clam for 2 weeks now and hes doing great, hes almost always open.
As far as the pipe fish, I like him because he looks kind of like a seahorse, but hes a community fish, nice addition.
He is beautiful. Everything I've read says to keep them in species only tanks with seahorses perhaps. By the way, that looks like a crocea, have you tried to put it in the rocks?
richm20
07-18-2007, 3:53 PM
My reef guy at the LFS told me he (pipe fish) would be fine in the tank as long as nobody would compete with him for food. When I feed just marine-snow type food, then they all swim after the food and he hides, but if I put flakes in at the same time the other fish tend to like the flake food more and go for that first.
As for the clam, I was told that he likes to be at the rock line but in the sand.
Is that true?
As for the diatom filter, would it kill off my phytoplankton?
Crocea and Maximas like to be the rocks. Close to the lights as well, most get MHs for them although some will set the high in the tank with good T5s too.
There is a fantastic forum on clams at www.clamsdirect.com (http://www.clamsdirect.com), highly recommend it. I'm wanting to try my hand at clams as well and have been oogling the ones they have there as well as local offerings. I'd love a photo of yours taken from the top down if you have time.
richm20
07-19-2007, 7:11 AM
I will get on that today!
Ill also try to put him on the rocks and see if he likes that more.
Rich, if he already attached his foot be careful not to tear it, you can cut it but if you do use a sharp blade and do it as far from the shell as you can.
richm20
07-19-2007, 5:28 PM
Well hes in the sand, so I don't think there is much for him to anchor to. But how do I tell........if hes tough to pull up?
Grins
07-19-2007, 11:45 PM
If the sand bed isn't deep he may have attached to the glass below. Just take it slow and you'll be fine.
richm20
07-20-2007, 6:12 AM
Well this is funny, last night I moved him up to a nice spot on the rocks.
This morning, he was on the other side of the tank, back in the sand...?
There's no way he fell that far.