Thanks guys
Aquaguru, hopefully my valonia will do the same. It did come on the rocks I got though, from the complete system. Oh well, manual removal seems best right now.
Anyways, the tank and I had a little mishap last night. Went to get bulkheads for the 55g drums, and picked up a sock and carbon at the LFS too. I went home, and put the carbon in the sock, and tie is onto my drain. Skimmer starts to go beserk almost immediately, but I think nothing of it. So, I came back an hour later, and first thing that I notice is that the tank is incredibly cloudy, cannot see from one end to the other. I then saw my fish, and he had little black spots on his tail and fins. I think, "Oh no! Black ich!" I start getting worried. I then remembered just adding carbon, so I looked into my sump, and voilà, the culprit. There are little flicks of carbon floating around in my sump, with black foamy stuff on the water line at the glass. "Oh ****!" was what I thought. I took out the bag of carbon, and realized that the holes in the bag were larger than some pieces of the carbon, so that's how the carbon got out. I thought, "Why isn't my skimmer picking all the stuff up though?" I look at the skimmer, and there are NO bubbles in the chamber. "What the ****! My $450 piece of equipment isn't working?!" I was mad. I took the carbon out, and thought how to fix the skimmer. My sump is SO tight down there with pipes and all, that is was an incredible ***** to remove the skimmer. Once I did that, I went to work on it. After 30mins of frustration and anger, I fixed it. Turns out when I put the carbon in, the pump was knocked off a little bit, and the air from the venturi wasn't making it into the skimmer; thus, the lack of bubbles. Put the skimmer back in, and waited, as patience is a virtue in reef tanks. Today, the tank is crystal clear once again, Larry is clean, and the skimmate is pitch black. Ahh, it's good to be able to fix problems
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