dublo8
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You changed their environment. If I rearranged your house and you woke up to take a pee in the middle of the night you would be a little off as well. They were use to something and now it's different so they no likey.
Anybody stop skimming
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You changed their environment. If I rearranged your house and you woke up to take a pee in the middle of the night you would be a little off as well. They were use to something and now it's different so they no likey.
lol, ok I'll get the new skimmer set up.
goldmaniac
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I have a 120 gallon w/ a 50 gallon sump/refugium and I don't skim. I've been skimmerless for 5 or 6 years, and I'll do water changes but not weekly or even bi-weekly. I've always gotten slammed for touting that I don't use a skimmer, but I don't care. For all of my filtration, I use 100 micron filter socks and a pretty decent size fuge, and live rock. That's it.
All this being said - I've recently figured out that my 10-year-old LR has become a phosphate sink and I'm in the process of getting ready to swap it all out. My tank looks terrible with hair algae but all corals are fine.
I do NOT notice particularly fast growth with my zoas. Softies seem to thrive, and SPS would grow until I got FTN last summer while not paying attention to the tank (we moved), but I've never had fast-growing zoas in my tank. yes, they grow, but not at a tremendous rate or anything.
I've had some zoa colonies/frags for 6-7 years, now. I have RPE's that I know I bought in 2004. They've always been good. My big problem with zoas is that the light has always seemed too bright. If i put any of mine even halfway up in my rock, they close up, and will die if I keep them there for more than a week or two. Put them back down on the floor, and all is well. I'm only running four T5's, too. Only one of the four t5's is a daylight bulb, the others are towards the blue side of the spectrum. Not very bright at all, IMO.
All this being said - I've recently figured out that my 10-year-old LR has become a phosphate sink and I'm in the process of getting ready to swap it all out. My tank looks terrible with hair algae but all corals are fine.
I do NOT notice particularly fast growth with my zoas. Softies seem to thrive, and SPS would grow until I got FTN last summer while not paying attention to the tank (we moved), but I've never had fast-growing zoas in my tank. yes, they grow, but not at a tremendous rate or anything.
I've had some zoa colonies/frags for 6-7 years, now. I have RPE's that I know I bought in 2004. They've always been good. My big problem with zoas is that the light has always seemed too bright. If i put any of mine even halfway up in my rock, they close up, and will die if I keep them there for more than a week or two. Put them back down on the floor, and all is well. I'm only running four T5's, too. Only one of the four t5's is a daylight bulb, the others are towards the blue side of the spectrum. Not very bright at all, IMO.
Skimmer set back up again, they're doing better. Thanks for the kick in the pants to get it done haha.
Markandamber
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good read i was thinking of going skimmerless as well
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