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I was just looking at the AquaC skimmers today on the web and was thinking about getting one - just hoping to make the other 'work' the way is supposed to, because there is no way or reason that thing shouldn't be spitting out to the overflow with the amount of fish and volume of water due to...

thanks. I will have to give them a try, but yeah, no crap at all. Skimmer is same age as tank setup, 6-7 months old. At first, it used to take out ALOT of junk, now, barely any, and with all stock I have I would think this thing should be spitting waste outa like a maniac. LFS is clueless...

as for length of tank: 6 months as for stock: 3 - blue damsels - (small) 1 - semi-circulatis angel (1 week old - medium) 1 - queen angel (1 week old - medium) 2 - dog-face puffers (large) 2 - triggers (1 week old - medium) 1 - coral beauty angel (medium) 3 - blue tangs (2 small and 1 medium)...

I have a 125g gallon fish-only tank which is composed of a ton of live rock, pre-drilled tank, wet/dry filter with a mag-drive 24 or 18 (can't remember right now), UV sterilizer with a rio 170 pump, and a Sea Life Systems Impact Skimmer with a CA2200 pump which is the same as the RIO 2800SS...

Wondering what everyone out there is using to measure diff. aspects of the water... Through personal and very tedious experience, here is what I found works for me: pH - Pinpoint PH Monitor which I x-reference using the Hagan pH test kit Specific Gravity - Pinpoint Salinity Monitor which I...

79F and no issues - although I had to buy a chiller in order to keep it at that since without one it would not drop frmo 85-86, if I put the lights on, 88-90! Lost a couple of fish to it, a very nice emperor I had for sometime :( So be careful - since I have a chiller I have the luxury of...

. Unfortunately the Emperor did not make it. I have a SeaLife systems Model 200 which is for up to 200G - this on the 125G, which is where the Koran is......

Here are (2) pics of the fish in question: Note: There is nothing superficial on the actual skin. [/img]

. Sorry, the temperature is 79-80 - I will try adjusting to 80-81 and see what happens - I did have it at 85/86 at one time and lost a couple of angels to it - they did not like it that hot. This was before I got the chiller. I will try and post some pics. Def. seems to be stress related, I...

. Here you go: 125G - Pre-Drilled (hardware): ----------------------------------- (2) 40W actinic blue (2) 40W 10k full spectrum Mag Drive Model 18 used for dual return Sea Life Systems Wet/Dry Sea Life Systems Protein Skimmer LifeGuard 40W UV Sterilizer RIO Model 1700 pump used for UV...

. well, the koran is actually an adult - so that's not possible, since he's got his full colors. And as for the emperor, I've had others and have seen them go through their color changes - this is completely diff. trust me - I'm going to see if I can take a pic of it tonight and post it so you...

. I'm having sort of the same problem with my Emperor and now also a Koran and Semicirculatus angel on another tank....white discolored spots on their skin - nothing superficial, just white spots - BUT, the'll go away on day, be back another in diff. places, sometime they almost all dissappear...

. ok - I also got a 72G which has a semicirculatus and another tank 125G which has a Koran angel and they're both showing the same symptoms on the discoloration. No scrathing or anything just pathces of discoloration on their skin, as if they were born with a skin disease. I've already...

. once other thing - I had the tank temperature in the past at about 85-86F - I'm assuming this is too much for the fish.....??? That's why I bought the chiller for it....is 85-86 too stressfull and fatal....or would it be ok?

. yes I agree that the flow is curently too high, and yes it's at about 4' hence the 400GPH value - but that 8watt is being replaced today with a 40watt, which has a max flow rate of 1200, so I would think 350-400GPH should be good enough. As for the diet, yes, that's all I've been feeding...