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Rotorocious
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Not too extreme, I usually get 2-3 days out of mine but its much darker than your picture. If the skimmer is broken in, it should have gotten something. Is there any foam at all in it? The 115 skimmer seems pretty finicky, I finally got mine set to where it will produce and I haven't touched it yet.
It's been about 6 weeks running so I would hope so, it was skimming good last week then I did a good cleaning in the back chambers and it hasn't been working since. The foam is very wet and it wont foam up like it used to. The top is just above the waterline and the valve is 1/4 closed. Also have you ever had water fill up the media basket and air under it? it's like the filter won't let enough water through then gets air locked.
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Reeflife916
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On my nano I change the floss about every 3rd day, but when I do it is much darker than your picture. I also run the 115 skimmer. It can be very finicky at times, sometimes for no reason. When it does work it pulls good skimmate although it is always wet. Try tweaking the skimmer height and knob a bit. I can leave the settings exactly as they were, but do a water change and sometimes that will throw it off, and needs adjusting againBeen replacing filter floss every 24 hours, normal? Also my skimmer hasn't pulled anything in a week.
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Rearranged the lights and added a lime and blue, now have 4 channels with white, royal blue, colors and UV on each. So now I have red, green, blue and lime in the center, UV on the outside, royal blue filled in and white on the edges. Colors and UV on 700ma and white and blues on 1000ma. With the more control the corals have really started to come out. I found out if your kit is the soldier kind you need to make sure you don't ground the wire to the side of the LED, the metal comes up to the top of the printed board.
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Little bit better wire management this time.
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The coraline is starting to grow now
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My LFS gave me a torch coral I need to pick it up tomorrow, he said it was under a frag rack and 2 out of 3 heads died. The head is only the size of a dime. Now that I have a good light I think it will be ok.
Little bit better wire management this time.
The coraline is starting to grow now
My LFS gave me a torch coral I need to pick it up tomorrow, he said it was under a frag rack and 2 out of 3 heads died. The head is only the size of a dime. Now that I have a good light I think it will be ok.
Led upgrades sound good. I'm thinking about running a few more channels for just uv myself.
The brown stuff isn't East to see but it's probably just diatomes, so I wouldn't worry about it. All part of the maturing process.
Remember to start the torch low in the tank so you don't cook it with your intense lights.
The brown stuff isn't East to see but it's probably just diatomes, so I wouldn't worry about it. All part of the maturing process.
Remember to start the torch low in the tank so you don't cook it with your intense lights.
Ok I have him on the bottom rock a few inches off the sand bed, the problem is when it tries to come out the damn cleaner shrimp keeps bugging it. I have a coral eating emerald and a coral bouncing shrimp lol. I feed once a day but they act like they are starving. I grabbed some oyster feast and tried to feed the corals but the shrimp attacks it and the corals just retreat. A guy at the LFS said to take a bottle and slide it over the corals while you feed to keep them out so they have a chance at food. While i was cleaning the frag i found a red coral, very small it looks like a chili coral I hope it lives, I took it off the frag and placed it in medium flow and halfway up the tank. I'll get a picture latter, its so small it's hard to take one of it.
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This guy was free so why not.
Also I think I got the skimmer dialed in, I cleaned it nightlight and this morning it was dark brown and muddy with chunks in the water and stuck to the walls.
This guy was free so why not.
Also I think I got the skimmer dialed in, I cleaned it nightlight and this morning it was dark brown and muddy with chunks in the water and stuck to the walls.
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Honestly, that's probably better skimmate than I get. Good job. I think when my tank was starting out I may have gotten it that thick, but I haven't seen neck build-up like that in a long time. I do still get liquid almost like yours though.
2/3 of the equation is the skimmer and how it is dialed in, the other 1/3 is the rest of the tank (bioload, filtration, etc.).
2/3 of the equation is the skimmer and how it is dialed in, the other 1/3 is the rest of the tank (bioload, filtration, etc.).
Thanks, I guess my OCD make me get it where I think it should be, granted this is not a full size skimmer that pull nice thick skimmate but its the best I've seen this little skimmer do so far. Also I think its pulling like this because of all the heavy diatom bloom I'm having, it's starting to dye off now and the coralline is coming in pretty fast to replace it.
So 2 nights ago was the last straw for the emerald crab, it was eating everything and the corals where not coming out at all anymore. So WW III on the tank to get it out. Ended up changing my aquascape and rinsing the rocks while I had it apart. This way gives me more room for corals and levels for each one for light and flow control. That chili coral I found I placed in the back kinda out of direct light per a few guys suggestions.
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Bad picture but its hard to get back there, i believe its a chili coral anyway.
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I found a use for the loud fans i took out of the hood! The drivers and power supply stay cool now.
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Bad picture but its hard to get back there, i believe its a chili coral anyway.
I found a use for the loud fans i took out of the hood! The drivers and power supply stay cool now.
That "chili coral" actually looks to me like a red tunicate. For the life of me I can't find a picture right now, but I'm pretty sure I have some in my tank that look just like that too. Pretty common, just a filter feeder that doesn't cause any trouble.
Chili coral is probably a stretch, as they're quite rare, and when they do happen, they don't usually hitchhike on rock
Chili coral is probably a stretch, as they're quite rare, and when they do happen, they don't usually hitchhike on rock
