PRINCE_NAMOR
In Memoriam
Does anyone know of any tank builders in the Atlanta area?
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PRINCE_NAMOR
In Memoriam
Original me and my brother have been saying that to each other since we were kids...lol
nyvp
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bstone :
yes he's a duce should be a nice fish when he gets older.
TheSaltwaterGuy:
thanks for the kind words
dgasmd
I hope your move went well. the skimmer is more consistent and I need to fiddle less with it. almost set it and forget now.
PRINCE_NAMOR exotic in miami that built my tank ships all over the country
Update:
The 3 tangs with lateral line are starting to look better I basically ran through the gambit of checking stray electric, feeding ect. I think it was a changed to seachem carbon and phosphate remover and was using to much and striped the water to much to fast.
update pics new corals
yes he's a duce should be a nice fish when he gets older.
TheSaltwaterGuy:
thanks for the kind words
dgasmd
I hope your move went well. the skimmer is more consistent and I need to fiddle less with it. almost set it and forget now.
PRINCE_NAMOR exotic in miami that built my tank ships all over the country
Update:
The 3 tangs with lateral line are starting to look better I basically ran through the gambit of checking stray electric, feeding ect. I think it was a changed to seachem carbon and phosphate remover and was using to much and striped the water to much to fast.
update pics new corals
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Not to mention if you run the dart w/o the alita it pulls over 225w (at least ours does). 
and pulls darned little air in the process. We actually backed ours down to an Alita 40, trying to find a "sweet spot" for our skimmer. I thought that you had to bleed off some if you were running an 80, like you are ?
Our custom calc reactor should be here this week or next. I need to follow up with Scott to see if it shipped yet.
Looking good NYVP
I was wondernig why you needed to use carbon and phosphate remover though ? I would have thought with the Volcano skimmer that you would have had more than enough "cleaning" power. Did you try dosing sugar for the phosphates ?
How long did it take your Volcano to break in and slime up ? Thanks
and pulls darned little air in the process. We actually backed ours down to an Alita 40, trying to find a "sweet spot" for our skimmer. I thought that you had to bleed off some if you were running an 80, like you are ?Our custom calc reactor should be here this week or next. I need to follow up with Scott to see if it shipped yet.
Looking good NYVP
I was wondernig why you needed to use carbon and phosphate remover though ? I would have thought with the Volcano skimmer that you would have had more than enough "cleaning" power. Did you try dosing sugar for the phosphates ?
How long did it take your Volcano to break in and slime up ? Thanks
nyvp
Active member
I thought that you had to bleed off some if you were running an 80, like you are ?
>>> yes if you look at the air hose there is a valve for the bleed off
Looking good NYVP
Why thank you 8 )
I was wondering why you needed to use carbon and phosphate remover though ? I would have thought with the Volcano skimmer that you would have had more than enough "cleaning" power.
>>> one has nothing to do with the other. I think I just added to much carbon and over did it
Did you try dosing sugar for the phosphates ?
>>> nope they are zero was doing more preventive
How long did it take your Volcano to break in and slime up ?
>>>> hmmm let me see seconds after I started it up :eek1:
>>> yes if you look at the air hose there is a valve for the bleed off
Looking good NYVP
Why thank you 8 )
I was wondering why you needed to use carbon and phosphate remover though ? I would have thought with the Volcano skimmer that you would have had more than enough "cleaning" power.
>>> one has nothing to do with the other. I think I just added to much carbon and over did it
Did you try dosing sugar for the phosphates ?
>>> nope they are zero was doing more preventive
How long did it take your Volcano to break in and slime up ?
>>>> hmmm let me see seconds after I started it up :eek1:
jnarowe
New member
saw my tank...how?
It's doing OK but I have taken my kalk stirrer off-line and have to keep reducing my CO2. I am not sure what is happening but it may well be due to probe malfunction as I am starting to not trust my parameters. Perhaps when I calibrated the pH probe I messed it up...I have hit 8.50 twice in the last two days.
So my alkalinity is still 11 - 12 dKh and my Ca, after being rock solid at 420 - 425 for a year suddenly jumped to 475 ppm last week.
The tank looks great except for the losses of montipora. All other corals are doing extremely well, growing fast and with very nice colors. I am starting to see a hint of what it will look like when mature because many of my corals are now larger and filling in the reef. Got a couple new cool corals in but I haven't found the time to take pics. And looking for a source of TMPCC!
Teardrop clams are growing much faster than the crocea and a couple are in the 10 - 12" range now. Fish are all in excellent health although the Sailfin still has the lateral line issue (I got it that way as a "rescue" fish). Down to just 5 blue/green chromis with only 2 - 3 really active in the water column, so I am now looking for a new school.
OK, so more info. than you probably wanted! :lol:
It's doing OK but I have taken my kalk stirrer off-line and have to keep reducing my CO2. I am not sure what is happening but it may well be due to probe malfunction as I am starting to not trust my parameters. Perhaps when I calibrated the pH probe I messed it up...I have hit 8.50 twice in the last two days.
So my alkalinity is still 11 - 12 dKh and my Ca, after being rock solid at 420 - 425 for a year suddenly jumped to 475 ppm last week.
The tank looks great except for the losses of montipora. All other corals are doing extremely well, growing fast and with very nice colors. I am starting to see a hint of what it will look like when mature because many of my corals are now larger and filling in the reef. Got a couple new cool corals in but I haven't found the time to take pics. And looking for a source of TMPCC!
Teardrop clams are growing much faster than the crocea and a couple are in the 10 - 12" range now. Fish are all in excellent health although the Sailfin still has the lateral line issue (I got it that way as a "rescue" fish). Down to just 5 blue/green chromis with only 2 - 3 really active in the water column, so I am now looking for a new school.
OK, so more info. than you probably wanted! :lol:
Scott mentioned that he built one of these reactors fo Energy's tank and it spiked his Alk in a couple of days and freaked everyone out. They are powerful and you really need to be careful with them. We talked about them a bit in our build thread, IIRC. Mainly about ways to tune them and set them up without risking spiking the tank parms.
As for the alita bleed off, I didn't look closely enough at your ball valve in the air line to notice that it was partly open.
Our skimmer, which I think is just about the same size as your, maybe slightly bigger due to the mixing box and other adjustments we asked Scott to include, started spitting out foam less than an hour after hooking it up (at least that was when I got back down to check on it after turngin it on finally). But I still don't feel that it is truly broken in, due to several factors (IE: bubble size consistency, truly skimmate versus some "dirty bubbles" and general flow patterns within the main body of the skimmer). Right now our biggest challenge is that the skimmer being so tall (6.5' + to the top of the collection cup) that the top of the cone is actually above the level of our "run off" drain, so we would never be able to raise the water level to the top of the cone/bottom of the twist lock (which is where most skimmers say to tune their water level to, with the air/recirc turned off, IIRC). Where do you keep your water level currently ?
As for the alita bleed off, I didn't look closely enough at your ball valve in the air line to notice that it was partly open.
Our skimmer, which I think is just about the same size as your, maybe slightly bigger due to the mixing box and other adjustments we asked Scott to include, started spitting out foam less than an hour after hooking it up (at least that was when I got back down to check on it after turngin it on finally). But I still don't feel that it is truly broken in, due to several factors (IE: bubble size consistency, truly skimmate versus some "dirty bubbles" and general flow patterns within the main body of the skimmer). Right now our biggest challenge is that the skimmer being so tall (6.5' + to the top of the collection cup) that the top of the cone is actually above the level of our "run off" drain, so we would never be able to raise the water level to the top of the cone/bottom of the twist lock (which is where most skimmers say to tune their water level to, with the air/recirc turned off, IIRC). Where do you keep your water level currently ?
jnarowe
New member
yeah, I have just been too busy to mess with pics. sorry guys! (especially since the glass is actually clean right now!)
Tom, how are you going to deal with that? In my case as with any skimmer I have seen, the object has been to get the water level up to the bottom of the cone or slightly above. But all the way up to the neck? That seems a bit extreme. How does Scott recommend you run it?
Tom, how are you going to deal with that? In my case as with any skimmer I have seen, the object has been to get the water level up to the bottom of the cone or slightly above. But all the way up to the neck? That seems a bit extreme. How does Scott recommend you run it?
I haven't asked Scott where he recommends yet. I will when I call him about the Ca reactor. Our old Deltec recommended just below the twist lock. Right now we are running the Volcano just above the bottom of the cone. I prefer to skim wet, but time will tell how we end up leaving ours tuned
jnarowe
New member
Tom,
Without any direct experience with the Volcano, I would still think running it just above the bottom of the cone is probably in the right area. With the kind of air a Volcano injects, I would doubt you could run it at the top without over-skimming. If Deltec is recommending running it that high, I would have to venture that it wasn't enough air as a percentage of the total volume.
Without any direct experience with the Volcano, I would still think running it just above the bottom of the cone is probably in the right area. With the kind of air a Volcano injects, I would doubt you could run it at the top without over-skimming. If Deltec is recommending running it that high, I would have to venture that it wasn't enough air as a percentage of the total volume.
