Dear friends,
I post a thread about my EuroReef CS6-2 on last week. First, I need to thank you so much for giving a great tip of how to give a good maintenance to skimmer. However, after giving a vinegar bath to the skimmer overnight and return it to its workplace for 4 days, it is still perform the same... I still don't get much foam comparing the time when the tank is newly setup.
Is it because there is not much bio load in my tank? 120G with only 2 yellow-tailed damsel, 2 common clown, 1 six-line wrasse along with some snails, crab, and shrimp. I have around 120 lb of live rock with 150 lb of coral(dead) sand. Tank has been setup up and running since Apr/1 with filtation of 25w UV, skimmer, active carbon, ozone, 10G refugium, and ?lb of nitrate sponge.
However, when I get the LR here in Taiwan, it is the worse quality I even seen (not cured, directly got for ocean... even got live SPS/Christmas tree on the rock, by the way, it is still hanging well in the tank) My tank got so stink for a good two weeks... And I still see the detrition from the dead organism from the rock falls everywhere on the sand bed. I checked the water now, but it shows 0 ammona, 0 Nitrite, 0 nitrate with 0 Po4 (Redsea test kit for ammonia + No2, Salifert No3 test, Azoo Po4 test)
I am very surprised to see the water quality, and I think probably the test kit has expired since I am using the kits over 5 years now... However, that is not the point here. My tank now is over-run by Cyanobacteria (red slime alage), but I still don't see the skimmer is skimming a good amount of foam. I don't think my water is that clean enough for skimmer not performing a good result.
Could I get help from you? Please advise if there is anything I could do now to help my skimmer working.
Thank you!
I post a thread about my EuroReef CS6-2 on last week. First, I need to thank you so much for giving a great tip of how to give a good maintenance to skimmer. However, after giving a vinegar bath to the skimmer overnight and return it to its workplace for 4 days, it is still perform the same... I still don't get much foam comparing the time when the tank is newly setup.
Is it because there is not much bio load in my tank? 120G with only 2 yellow-tailed damsel, 2 common clown, 1 six-line wrasse along with some snails, crab, and shrimp. I have around 120 lb of live rock with 150 lb of coral(dead) sand. Tank has been setup up and running since Apr/1 with filtation of 25w UV, skimmer, active carbon, ozone, 10G refugium, and ?lb of nitrate sponge.
However, when I get the LR here in Taiwan, it is the worse quality I even seen (not cured, directly got for ocean... even got live SPS/Christmas tree on the rock, by the way, it is still hanging well in the tank) My tank got so stink for a good two weeks... And I still see the detrition from the dead organism from the rock falls everywhere on the sand bed. I checked the water now, but it shows 0 ammona, 0 Nitrite, 0 nitrate with 0 Po4 (Redsea test kit for ammonia + No2, Salifert No3 test, Azoo Po4 test)
I am very surprised to see the water quality, and I think probably the test kit has expired since I am using the kits over 5 years now... However, that is not the point here. My tank now is over-run by Cyanobacteria (red slime alage), but I still don't see the skimmer is skimming a good amount of foam. I don't think my water is that clean enough for skimmer not performing a good result.
Could I get help from you? Please advise if there is anything I could do now to help my skimmer working.
Thank you!
