Recent content by Race37

Look up DIY PVC overflow on YouTube. They do work.

The only dumb question is the one not asked, a sw tank is easy to take care of once you know how to get your parameters in control. Just take you time, nothing good happens fast in this hobby, just be patent and keep an eye on everything for the first few months, after you get the bacteria all...

I wouldn't add the salt into the aquarium, people have got away with it but it is hard to mix. The way that works best for me is put a small heater in a clean 5 gallon bucket with a strong power head. I let the solution run for a hour to make sure that it is at the correct temp and salinity...

Ya the aquaclear 110 has a large body for a fuge and takes just a couple modifications to make it work. Cpr makes one that would work a lot better, but they do cost more, the largest one holds about 5 gallons from what I understand. I am building a nano reef out of a 20H right now, but I'm...

Ya they will do that, I used to turn it on for 1-2 hours a week just to "polish" the water

What are they, I haven't heard of them

May also look and see if you have a surface film, this can really mess up the oxygen levels, especially if it is a 150 tall, very little service to volume ratio

That would be more then enough, I would probably go with the 3/4 cpr continuous siphon, it's in dr foster and smith catalog and flows 300 gph, the smallest inch is 600 gph. Obviously you can regulate them, but I think a 500 gph return would be too strong for your tank

Or do you think the I could flow water past it, I will have a 6" channel that it will sit in, water needs to run around it

Good to know, that is the one I was looking at and the dimensions listed are smaller, so it won't work for me unfortunately.......they are really good skimmers, seems like everyone loves them

Not cycled*

Sorry, ignore me, I thought you was still I cycled, miss understood the post

A uv sterilizer would help too, but it kills anything that floats threw it

I am interested to see this, I have no idea on the cause, but I had a hammer do the same thing. Hope to hear an answer.

If it is bubble algae it is bad, depending on what is in your tank you can take a couple of routs. My first choice would be to remove the infected rock and kill off the rock, if that's not an option then next would be an emerald crab, they are supposed to eat it but mine never did :-/ And the...