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Red Algae is gone After weeks of using deioinized water the red algae in my fish tank has finally gone away. The plant in my refugium has grown...
Finally Broke. Did Water Change. HOT Skimmer Mod. Tons of Pics. After nearly 3 or so months I decided to do my first water change and hook up my...
No water changes, No skimmer UPDATE! 2 weeks ago I finally went to walmart and purchased two 5 gallon jugs of distilled water. I engineered my...
11/16/11 Skimmerless Experiment Update Skimmer less, No water changes with Refugium Experiment Update. Since my last reply there has been a...
Skimmerless/No water changes, setup update. Its been nearly 3 weeks since I axed the skimmer and levels in the tank are stable. Coral growth is the...
Refugium after 2 weeks. Millions of copepods. I also put the choco starfish in the sump instead of the refuge. Skimmer has been off about a week...
Going skimmerless. I read many threads about it making the corals huge so I thought I would give it a shot. Besides my water parameters are perfects...
I don't know for sure. Just divide a 10 gallon into 3 sections. Make them all equal if you want.
I used 3 chambers. 1 is water coming from the overflow box from the DT. This is also where you place your protein skimmer. Water overflows into...
Add sun coral to the tank mate list. Anyone know how long it takes before they come out from hiding?
I gives him freeze dried krill every few days. He is doing great.
Nvm. I tested it. It did not work. The water would back up into the Skimmer tray. I will need to redesign pipes and change the height level of...
What do you mean? Why would there be less flow? Please elaborate.
Decided to axe the furniture idea to hide the skimmer. Currently Constructing PVC pipe so I can use the Skimmer on the side of the tank.
The starfish is doing fine. Thx for the refugium/sump compliment. Are you talking about the skimmer? I do not use it as a second display tank....
I have been using walmarts cheapest non-scented Kitty litter as my 3 inch refugium substrate for 8 days. I did not top it with anything however it...
My refugium after 8 days I need to increase the waterflow and hopefully the red cyanobacteria will disappear
Decided to remod my overflow box by using a dremal to make teeth in the PVC pipe instead of the small drilled holes already there. I did this so it...
Nvm. Ill use a dremal Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk
Okay great! Think I could use a drill bit and use the side of the bit to carve vertical teeth?
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