Re: NANFA-- brackish water sand bed etc.

Jim Graham (jimbob54_at_voyager.net)
Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:38:38 -0500

It's just your basic drilled tanks with stand pipes that drain into the
trickle filter and then into the sump which is two plastic laundry tubs and
contains your basic protein skimmer and then pumped out of the bottom of the
laundry tubs into a manifold and back to the tanks.

Jim Graham
Hastings MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sajjad Lateef" <sajjadlateef_at_yahoo.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- brackish water sand bed etc.

> Hi Jim,
>
> I'd be interested to find out how you have put this system together.
>
> Any chance that you could put together a short article for
> the AC?
>
> Sajjad
>
> --- Jim Graham <jimbob54_at_voyager.net> wrote:
> > Dear Dr. Sandbed ( aka Todd Crail),
> > I've got a small brackish system that has 4 20longs ( will have 11
> > when I
> > get around to drilling 7 more) and 12 5 1/2 gallon tanks. I am using
> > a
> > protein skimmer and one of my homemade kitty litter bucket trickle
> > filters
> > for filtration. I run it at about 1.010-12 salinity and have a couple
> > of
> > different pupfish, bumblebee gobies and blue eyes in the system.
> > Would like
> > to find a plant filter/sandbed setup to harvest nutrients out of the
> > system
> > to cut down on the water changes which are far too easy to get behind
> > on.
> >
> > Jim Graham
> > Hastings MI
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