Looks good mate. I finally gave in and bought the Fluval M90 media basket. Silly money but easier to use than egg crate. Also got the same skimmer as yours. Pretty good although it’s a wet skim.
Phil Glendenning Great stuff, glad to hear you went ahead and made the purchase, I was looking at the media baskets in the beginning but I like being able to make things to my own specification using egg crate. The skimmer does skim pretty wet but it’s far better then the original PS1 in my opinion Keep me up to date on how it’s coming along 👍🏻
Bayles90 media basket is designed for the earlier tanks like mine where the water passes through the tops of the baffles. Now there is a 1 inch gap between the media basket and the wall of chamber 1 baffle and as the basket is closed on all sides the water is forced up to the top. In hindsight I should have reversed chamber 1 like you did. Not sure what Fluval we’re thinking of when they designed the tank.
Phil Glendenning Yea mine was the same when I purchased it, if you want my first couple of vids I explained Why i flipped the first baffle myself and siliconed it back in place, It was a poor design in my opinion
So I'm having issues with my tank, the water level fluctuates terribly, and i have an auto top off that works fine. Water level stays stable for quit a few days & then in the last chamber the level goes almost empty, THEN the auto top off kicks in like CRAZY, salinity goes way down.. any ideas why?
Mine pretty much does the same to be honest. The level stays ok for a day or two and then I loose around a quarter of my last chamber Ive always just assumed it’s general evaporation. I don’t use and auto top off system of any kind. I just keep a small 5L canister in the cupboard and manually top the last chamber up every day to avoid it getting to low and effecting the salinity
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Looks good mate. I finally gave in and bought the Fluval M90 media basket. Silly money but easier to use than egg crate. Also got the same skimmer as yours. Pretty good although it’s a wet skim.
Phil Glendenning
Great stuff, glad to hear you went ahead and made the purchase, I was looking at the media baskets in the beginning but I like being able to make things to my own specification using egg crate.
The skimmer does skim pretty wet but it’s far better then the original PS1 in my opinion
Keep me up to date on how it’s coming along 👍🏻
Bayles90 media basket is designed for the earlier tanks like mine where the water passes through the tops of the baffles.
Now there is a 1 inch gap between the media basket and the wall of chamber 1 baffle and as the basket is closed on all sides the water is forced up to the top.
In hindsight I should have reversed chamber 1 like you did. Not sure what Fluval we’re thinking of when they designed the tank.
Phil Glendenning
Yea mine was the same when I purchased it, if you want my first couple of vids I explained Why i flipped the first baffle myself and siliconed it back in place, It was a poor design in my opinion
So I'm having issues with my tank, the water level fluctuates terribly, and i have an auto top off that works fine. Water level stays stable for quit a few days & then in the last chamber the level goes almost empty, THEN the auto top off kicks in like CRAZY, salinity goes way down.. any ideas why?
Mine pretty much does the same to be honest. The level stays ok for a day or two and then I loose around a quarter of my last chamber
Ive always just assumed it’s general evaporation. I don’t use and auto top off system of any kind. I just keep a small 5L canister in the cupboard and manually top the last chamber up every day to avoid it getting to low and effecting the salinity
what kind of phos guard to you use?
Hi there
Currently I’m using Rowa phos. Seems to be doing the trick so far 👍🏻