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I have a six month old D&D typhoon hob skimmer. A few days ago I took it apart to clean it. It was running fine a at the time just had a build up of algae inside it. I took all the components apart, scrubbed all the algae off from inside it and soaked the Venturi tube in a isopropyl...

I have a tank that is approx. 6 months old. It's a 36gal fowlr with 40 lbs of live rock 2 clowns and a sleeper banded goby. Until 2 weeks ago it was just using a hob floss filter and the t8 light it came with. I decided it was time to get into reefing so 2 weeks ago I installed 2 800gph power...

I just bought a odyssea quad t5 and it came configured with the 2 actinic bulbs in the back and the 2 10,000k bulbs in the front. Would it make more sense to move the bulbs in an every other manner so that it would go 10,000k, actinic, 10,000k, actinic. Seems to me like that would create more...

Thank you mr x. No offense to everyone else but you and Carey seem to be the most knowledgable people I've talked to here so I was hoping you or her would chime in. As for the pump I plan on buying a back up anyway. The one the unit came with is a euro pump so it needed a converter to convert to...

Well the problem is that this is not a conventional skimmer. This skimmer doesn't use a collection cup but rather has a concentrator cup that ejects the foam down a tube to a bucket below the tank. Based on everyone's advice I will let it run continuously for a couple weeks but at that point if...

So even though it has been running for 4 days now and is producing lots of skimmate, you guys are saying that I can expect it the bubbles in the tank to calm down even more over the next couple of weeks. Where it stands right now is driving me crazy. That's why I'm wondering about only running...

What part of quad t5 made you assume it wasn't ho. It is a 4 bulb t5 ho system

These have just appeared on my rocks in the last month or 2. Seem to only be on this rock and starting on another rock touching this one. They do seem to be increasing in numbers though. Is this some type of worm?

I'm finally on the road to a reef ready tank. Recently purchased power heads, a quad t5 and a hob skimmer. I don't have a sump and this is the reason for the post. I bought a D&D typhoon hob skimmer. It took about three days to break in and is now really rolling the skim, however it is also...

I hoping to find others with this skimmer. I set it up 2 days ago and at this point I'm still getting millions of micro bubbles back in the tank and thus far it has yet to produce any real skimmate. I know the instructions say to give it 3 days but I've seen you tube videos of people with this...

At the moment it's just a fowlr, however I just bought a typhoon skimmer rated for 125gal tanks, a quad t5 unit. My plan is to start a mixed reef with lps/sps, anenome and a clam or 2

I'm getting ready to buy a couple of power heads for my aquarium and I need advice on the correct size to go with. I have a 36 gallon aqueon bowfront tank. I'm looking at a set of wave maker power heads on eBay. For my size tank would I be better off with 2 800gph's or 2 1300gph's. I know the...

Yup that's the one, thanks

Bought this guy today, the lfs had it labeled as a dragon goby but after some research he clearly is not a dragon/violet goby. It's definitely a goby just not sure which one.

Lol, yes having a 36gal tank I can get away with using 5 gal buckets however I still plan on getting around to getting a small power head to ease the process because I don't care who you are lifting a 40 lbs bucket over 4 feet in the air ( in my case) and holding it there for up to 60 seconds is...