kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[kien]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

I vote i'm the biggest vulture!!!! And then you wouldn't have to part out... cause i'd take everything! Think of how easy that would be..

I guess that would make things easy :-) Keep in mind though that I am not shutting the entire system down. Just the 131g "FOWLR" extension.

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by kien

I guess that would make things easy :-) Keep in mind though that I am not shutting the entire system down. Just the 131g "FOWLR" extension.

Yup! Thats all i'd want! Looking for a FOWLR

[kien]

So after running this tank for about two and a half years, I figured it was about time I cleaned the sump..

Here's what I was up against.









I had planned to cleaned the sump a year ago but one thing led to another and well, here I am

I started at 1pm today and finished up at around 9pm.

So the first thing I did was pull out all of the equipment. The skimmer, return pumps, heaters, probes, etc..



Although I had not cleaned the sump in over two years, I was actually better at staying on top of the skimmer maintenance. This is its second scrub down and vinegar bath in two years.





Shiny!

[FishyFishy!]

Holy tube worms batman!!! I hate that cleaning process.

[kien]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

Holy tube worms batman!!! I hate that cleaning process.

uh ya.. I filled a 4L ice cream pale, TWICE with tubeworms/feather dusters.

[kien]

There was a time when I would look into the sump and think, "oh gee, wow, look at all those feather dusters! That's so awesome that they are thriving. The tank must be doing good!"

Needless to say, I don't really feel that way anymore.



The Kent scraper and I spent some quality time today expunging those damn feather dusters. What kinda surprises me is that these things don't infest the display tank. I guess they are preyed upon by the fish before they reach plague proportions.

So anyway, some 8 hours later, about a dozen towels, four 5 buckets to hold wet equipment, two spent kent scrapers, my sump was shiny again.









One thing I realized while cleaning up the return pump is that I actually had not touched this thing in over two years. Pretty much since the day I plopped it into the sump and turned it on, it has ran like a champ! I know I should have taken it out more frequently but I never did and that didn't seem to bother it. It never once failed to restart during power outages and is still the quietest piece of equipment on my tank.





I'm not sure why I took a picture of my skimmate, but I did.