Recent content by kgriffith

Wanted to update you guys, my algae bloom has not gone away and I am scraping the glass daily, my bubble coral died and it appears that my scoly has died but I do not no how to tell for certain, its a fleshy white color and its mouth is constantly open... What should I do?

I did not remove the substrate during the move and my ammonia is 0... I will do some water changes over the next few days to see if that helps. Before the move I was having some red algae film on the glass which prompted me to add a phosphate reactor and that seemed to help. But as I recall...

Okay guys I am having big problems here... Moved my tank downstairs this weekend. I eliminated my trickle filter and replaced with a 20g sump with sock. I also have a 10g refugium that overflows into the sump. Since my move my tank has developed a terrible algae bloom and a few of my corals...

I got my sump tank drilled today and I was going to end up with 3 7" areas one with lvr next with skimmer then a return section. I may end up upgrading my skimmer at somepoint so I was wondering if I should enlarge the skimmer area? If I do I would end up with something like 4" 13" 4" which...

kh is good, 10-12 is a good range.

Get a cup of ro/di water and microwave it for 30 seconds so that its pretty hot and stick the venturi into the cup. That will help to remove the salt creep. I do this one or two times a month just as a preventative maintenance.

I am guessing that the question was too ambiguous so tonight I got a little bit further with the design... I determined that the skimmer section needs to be 7" across to fit my equipment. So what I am thinking is... Water leaving the tank will enter an area that is filled with live rock...

No one has any ideas?

I have an acrylic tank with two openings and a center brace, that deters most jumpers but I also have two acrylic panels that I can put over the openings if need be.

Iwaki WMD 20rlxt External Water Pump <- this site shows 540@ 4' head. If that is the case I should be fine seeing as I have a 1" overflow right?

They do it regularly I am sure that it depends on a lot of things tho. Not terribly familiar with them. Sorry

Hmm I dunno, I read the badge on the pump and it says WMD-20rlxt-115 max flow 13.7 gpm I looked online and some sites say the wmd-20rlxt has 540 and others say 822. Some say 540 with 4' head loss. I wonder

Lets see some parameters and lighting/ flow specs

Sounds like a big finger leather, the stretch marks make me think he is on steroids, haha. Serioulsy tho I think that it might be getting ready to shed. I have a finger leather buy my experience is limited so maybe someone else has an idea.

A sump is basically just a big basin of water which would house a return pump and a skimmer. A refugium is basically the same thing but contains benificial algae to remove nitrates. A lot of modern sumps are really a sump/refugium hybrid.