psalzman
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hey everyone,
I'm pretty new to this game... and have only been running my tanks for a short time. Well, I bought a protein skimmer and a few days afterwards my fish came down with a horrible case of Marine-Ich. I lost 'em all, except one which I put into a QT (who eventually died a few days later.)
Since I ran the tank a while without the protein skimmer, I knew that my tank had a lot of junk in it... so without thinking I turned turned up the settings high enough that bubbles were going throughout the tank, but foam was flowing out, which I had being syphoned away.
Well now, two or three days later, I have a tank that you cannot see 3 inches into.
I built a filtering system out parts from Home Depot using a simple water purification filter for a Refrigerators faucet, clear latex tubing, and the Power head I took off of the Protein Filter.
This isn't working too well. The water coming out of the other end is still green, and it's pretty slow (1/6th [or whatever] inch tubing can't push much liquid.)
Do you guys have any suggestions on what I can do quickly? I have some coral in there that is probably not getting nearly enough light, and several invertebres that are could be loving these conditions, and it's just plain disgusting looking... not what I was going for when I decided to create this setup.
Thanks for anything you can come up with!
I'm pretty new to this game... and have only been running my tanks for a short time. Well, I bought a protein skimmer and a few days afterwards my fish came down with a horrible case of Marine-Ich. I lost 'em all, except one which I put into a QT (who eventually died a few days later.)
Since I ran the tank a while without the protein skimmer, I knew that my tank had a lot of junk in it... so without thinking I turned turned up the settings high enough that bubbles were going throughout the tank, but foam was flowing out, which I had being syphoned away.
Well now, two or three days later, I have a tank that you cannot see 3 inches into.
I built a filtering system out parts from Home Depot using a simple water purification filter for a Refrigerators faucet, clear latex tubing, and the Power head I took off of the Protein Filter.
This isn't working too well. The water coming out of the other end is still green, and it's pretty slow (1/6th [or whatever] inch tubing can't push much liquid.)
Do you guys have any suggestions on what I can do quickly? I have some coral in there that is probably not getting nearly enough light, and several invertebres that are could be loving these conditions, and it's just plain disgusting looking... not what I was going for when I decided to create this setup.
Thanks for anything you can come up with!