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11-07-2006, 04:40 PM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Kentucky
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Originally Posted by drdude05
Sounds like water changes are the only option I have. I am already doing all the other suggestions. I am even watching how much I am feeding to make sure that I am not inadvertantly adding too much to the system.
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Thats easy to do(add to much food) I have 3 big tangs and they go crazy when I don't feed them daily!!!!!!!
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210 aga, 24 gallon nano(built In) 60 gallon refugium with sump 
& Now 75 Reef at work
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11-07-2006, 04:40 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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What are you feeding the skimmer with now?
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TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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11-07-2006, 08:44 PM
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To boldy reef ...
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryville, TN
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It is supplied by a MaxJet 1200. I thought about direct feeding the skimmer from one of my overflows and regulating it via a ball or gate valve, but I was having trouble getting the plumbing to fit in the stand the way I wanted to plumb it. So I decided to feed it with a pump that would supply close to 2 times my tank volume each hour, and then use the gate valve mod to slow the flow out of the skimmer to allow maximal contact time for maximal extraction.
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They have two settings .... stun and kill ... It'd be best not to confuse them!
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11-07-2006, 09:50 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Pittsboro, NC
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go BB. 
G~
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11-07-2006, 10:28 PM
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To boldy reef ...
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryville, TN
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Never  bare glass bottoms look so unnatural.
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They have two settings .... stun and kill ... It'd be best not to confuse them!
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11-08-2006, 10:38 AM
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Why I get nothing done...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Beaverton
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Originally Posted by drdude05
Never bare glass bottoms look so unnatural. |
Agreed!
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11-08-2006, 12:00 PM
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shark
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: PA
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Originally Posted by tashier
Agreed!
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ditto!! ive seen some tanks with awesome corals with bare bottom and the tanks just look dull and lifeless
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11-08-2006, 12:12 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Let's not start the BB wars over here too. 
I agree that you need to give your tank some time to settle out, keep skimming wet, get on a water change scedule (like weekly/biweekly) and let the tank do it's thing.
It went though quite a time there, lots of stuff you could see died, but much more you can't also did, its going to take a bit to come back up to speed but it will.
Don't try and force it, that's were the problems start,... trust me.
Whiskey
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11-08-2006, 12:40 PM
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To boldy reef ...
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryville, TN
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Not trying to start any wars here, just not ready to remove my sand bed just yet. More out of laziness than anything else. It seems that the growth rate of algae on my glass as slowed down since my last water change ... maybe I am finally catching up with getting the water quality back on track.
For now, patience is key ... I agree. The majority of the tank improvemnt over the past few weeks I think has more to due with the tank itself rather tahn anything I did other than water changes.
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11-08-2006, 01:12 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Not to weigh in with the BB wars, since I have so little experience to start with....
But there is a fantastic website that someone posted in one of the other threads recently: http://www.oregonreef.com/. This amazing reef is mostly BB - but the visible areas have thin dusting of sand where there is no rockwork for aesthetics. I like that approach a lot and I think my next tank will have something similar.
sambo
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11-08-2006, 04:25 PM
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To boldy reef ...
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That's basically what I have then. I don't have a 4-6 inch traditional deep sand bed, mine is probably 2 inches at most in the deep places and 1/2" in the shallow areas.
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11-08-2006, 06:18 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sambo
This amazing reef is mostly BB - but the visible areas have thin dusting of sand where there is no rockwork for aesthetics. I like that approach a lot and I think my next tank will have something similar.
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That is exactly what I have. Now my tank is no where the quality of that tank though! 
I have my rock on PVC, no sand under the rock....a spray bar to push detritus out under the rock and a very shallow SB for aesthetics only where the bottom is visible!
Like this...not that you really can see the BB under the rock...as it is planned that way...but when I do rock blasting it sure gets whatever nasties get trapped anywhere out ...plus I can divert 100% flow out of the spray bar to stir POOO Up 
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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11-08-2006, 06:22 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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If anyone want more pics or details let me know......I don't want ot hijack this thread 
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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11-08-2006, 06:31 PM
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king of brown corals
Join Date: Sep 2005
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best test kit you have is your eyes ! you see algae you have phosphates !
whisk , i don't think that the glass cleaning thing is any indicator of any phosphates , too many other varibles to use that as a gauge !
for you's that don't like b.b.   !
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save the beach ! go bare bottom ........
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11-08-2006, 07:12 PM
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To boldy reef ...
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryville, TN
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You employ bare bottom ... yet ... you are the king of brown corals ... alas ... that is sad. 
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