Recent content by Sebastian91

So I noticed on my live rock that I have something that to me, looks like an anemone, possibly some kind of hydroid. I'm really not sure because I just started researching what it could be. Anyway, at first I didn't mind it because it's small and retracts away quite a bit. I'm becoming a...

After about a week it started to bubble properly and skim really well, but I did a water change again to test the chemical in the water conditioner theory and it has been confirmed. I'm going to switch to ro/di water for my next water change. They sent me a pump replacement, but I'm hesitant...

What is the website? I checked reefoctopus.com and coralvue.com, but I couldn't find anything on either. I've gontacted their "customer service", but it's apparently just one guy and he isn't helpful at all...

What would happen if I blew into it anyway?

Blow into the air intake? Wouldn't that just cause air to be in the pump? How did you go about finding the sweet spot anyway? What difference does ro/di water make?

I'll wait it out then and report back tomorrow on if it's any better or exactly the same Hopefully you're right...

I just don't understand why the skimmer wouldn't just go straight back to what it did when I first put it in. I used chlorine remover. Which chemical is it that reacts? I've only had tap water with the chlorine remover the whole time. That makes me wonder why it wouldn't alter the skimmer...

Mine was great when it was first out of the box, but tell from it's glory and just frustrates me now. The impeller in mine doesn't seem to want to move in a circular motion... I'll try to set it up again, but I don't have all too much faith in it. I'm emailing back and forth with someone from...

CUC? I took apart the pump, but nothing looked abnormal as far as I can tell. How is the impeller supposed to move? In a circular motion or something more jagged? I also did the priming thing again, but still to no avail...

I did that, but the bubble issue remains. It didn't get anywhere close to overflowing before the return had the water directed back into the tank. I tried slightly covering it so get the water higher, but that didn't seem to make any difference. The noise stopped though! That's definitely a...

I just purchased this particular HOB skimmer and after installing it, was amazed by the performance of it. Just now though, I turned off several things in order to do a water change and when I turned everything back on, the skimmer was not functioning properly... There were BARELY any bubbles...

I was actually planning on getting some ammonia to see what the effect would be. I originally wanted to get something like API stress zyme+ or quick start because it says that it has the nitrifying bacteria for cycling, but read a lot about how that's for if you're cycling your tank WITH fish...

I haven't done another water test since the last one a few days back. There never was a spike in the ammonia and the nitrites have always been at 0 from what I've seen. The highest my ammonia has ever been is .25. I'm worried that I just have a bunch of nitrates building up, but no actual...

About 3 or 4 weeks ago, I started to set up a 60 gallon saltwater tank with live sand, 20lbs of live rock, and 35lbs of dried out live rock. I'm using an aquatop CF400 canister filer (with carbon) and just purchased a reef octopus BH2000 protein skimmer yesterday. I was told that after putting...