octopus BH-100F HOB

I hope santa is bringing me this for Xmas.

Assuming he does.

This has a chamber in it that I see folks use for other things (heaters, grounding probes, carbon, etc.). Which I think is really neat.


I've got a lot of LR rubble that makes a side of my tank look messy. I am wondering if it would be fine to add this rubble to the mentioned chamber in skimmer. This rubble has red tube worms, feather dusters, hydroids, pods, etc. living on it.

(If you want to comment on the other items people run there, that is fine too).

Thanks!

 

PM Packleader. He runs one of these units.

 

Yip. he's where I got the idea from in the first place. I was looking for more comments than one (though Pack's comments are top notch!).

Also, bc I'm not sure where this chamber falls in the skimming process, I wasn't sure if having LR in there might somehow be counter productive (I can't think of how it would be, but I want to be sure).

I don't think Pack has LR in his chamber.

 

^bump^

Want to see if there is any reason I wouldn't want to put LR in this.

 

I put my rubble there. Really helped clean up that area of my tank.

 

Looking good! How is it running this morning? Bubbles calm down for you at all?

 

Your tip about having the bottom of the cup at about the top edge of that black brace thing was spot on. As soon as I raised it to there, it started bubbling over within a few minutes.

Now I've got 1/4" of dark yellow water in the cup ;D and I don't see ANY more floating brown spots ;D;D


The return is still spraying bubbles - I'll see if I can catch a pic to show the amount...

I'm not seeing even close to enough bubbles in the return chamber to account for this, so I'm thinking they're coming from the T on the return pipe(?).

 

Here are two shots showing bubbles. Phone camera with a super fast shutter :











A new whole tank pic with skimmer





And this is the area of tank that had all that LR rubble. Now it's all cleaned up! One day (far future) I want a clam here... we'll see

 

Try sticking the foam element back in there. Should help cut down on the bubbles

 

How do you like the skimmer... Im running a cough: seaclone cough: now and the octupus is actually my top priority right now. I would like to put my heater in their like you did and the LR rubble is a good idea.