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    various reasons, running costs with the big 30,000 pump, fluke treatment problems, condensation in winter, die off due to drying out if you lose filtration for a day or more, and fancied going back to basics.
    plus it is still as noisy as hell even inside a filter house

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    Quote Originally Posted by davethefish1 View Post
    various reasons, running costs with the big 30,000 pump, fluke treatment problems, condensation in winter, die off due to drying out if you lose filtration for a day or more, and fancied going back to basics.
    plus it is still as noisy as hell even inside a filter house
    Yep, suppose its one less pump to worry about? It will be interesting to see if your parameters differ at all next season?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruffers22 View Post
    Yep, suppose its one less pump to worry about? It will be interesting to see if your parameters differ at all next season?
    i had undetectable levels of ammonia and nitrite with the shower.
    i'll see how 200 odd litres of K1 compares....

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    I changed from a roto concepts gravity shower in spring to 2 barrels currently holding 200l of K+ which I will gradually up to 300l.

    I scraped in spring and found flukes then had white spot pop up just after, so treated initially with PP then SV for the flukes followed by a good couple of water changes before switching to FMG.

    Since then I have had literally no flashing or flicking all summer for the first time ever and this was after removing the filter for the moving beds that I treated for the issues. Was the shower holding things causing the flashing all the time? I think so but no way of telling 100%, I just know I treated the same as I always have.

    With the 200l I am now at 17.9 getting a trace reading of nitrite after feeding 300g per day so thats just 1 summer of maturing time. I would like to think by the end of next season with another 100l of K+ going in I'll be able to feed closer to 500g. At 20 I was getting no nitrite whilst feeding 300g daily last week so pretty happy with that for now, I did feed more on the shower filter but I also had it running for a few years so a more mature system and that was 200l of crystal bio.

    The fish seem happy and as mentioned no flicking or flashing. The only things I have seen was the odd little mark when the nitrite got high and as soon as I done a water change this went away. I think mid summer I was feeding about 350g and getting nitrite up to about 0.5 so I was pushing it a bit, but once I eased off and changed some water the nitrite dropped and any little mark vanished pretty rapidly.
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