Recent content by darrinsimon

Ah okay it stands for power head!

Thanks for the reply saxman. I am confused, what does my PH have to do with this?

H,mm, no one here has Bubble Blaster pumps?

Anyone have trouble with these pumps building up calcium on the impeller magnet? I have the hy-1000s and every month I have to clean calcium off the impeller magnet. I have 3 powerheads and a canister filter that have magnetic impellers and they don't get ANY cacium buildup on them at all. The...

Okay so it's not the water, the tank clouded up again 4 days ago and I think my wife and I have figured out the cause. We have some construction going on outside, we are adding a large front porch and a carport on the side of the house. Basically it's been a muddy mess outside until the concrete...

Okay it's the water, tank is clearing up after using RO water for my changes and top off. Weird how my well water is showing lower TDS than before but it's causes clouding of the tank. We haven't had much rain lately so maybe all the dust is getting in the water table? Anyway looks like I am...

Okay still fighting cloudy tank. Started 10 gallon changes per week instead of 5. Tanks looks a bit clearer after water change, but the next morning it's cloudy again. The pic I posted does not show the cloudyness, if I squat down and look upwards at the tank with the lights on, it looks like...

Hmm, the last water change on Tuesday seemed to clear it up a bit, but yesterday afternoon it seemed to start getting cloudier again. Went to grab my tub to make some fresh saltwater to have on hand since I still don't know exactly whats going on. Wanted some fresh saltwater on hand just in case...

I keep losing my cursor postion when I try to backspace and correct something here, I just lost 2 long posts and I am no typist either, is ther a way to have it show where the hell the cursor is? Grrrfrustrated

Well Flower I did get a new Reef Octopus XP1000S cone skimmer, it was difficult convincing the wife we needed a $325 skimmer, but she finally gave in. It is rated for a 150 and I have a 90, I read that you should get a skimmer rated for a larger tank than you have and that's what I did. Hell it...

Whats a polyfilter? A little over a month ago I went on attack against the HA, pulled most of the live rock out (except for the 45 pound one in there!) and scrubbed it with a brush in clean water, then rinsed in more clean water. Then daily would scrub the rocks where it was coming back...

Not using a turkey baster to "blow on the rocks". I did have to clean the skimmer cup last night, their was a lot of green slime all around the "riser neck" which appeared to be dead/dying algae. Gonna skim a little wetter till tank clears up, also considering another water change to help it...

Cant detect any ammonia, nitrites or nitrates, haven't been able to detect these for quite while now. Funny you mention the dust, I do see some dust on the top of the glass that sits atop the tank, time to clean house! Fish don't seem to be bothered as much as we are by the cloudyness though...

Okay so I have been fighting hair algae and starting to win the battle. My tank temp has been around 80 to 81 F. and yesterday I decided to install a fan in the canopy sucking cool air in blowing to the top middle of the canopy. When the canopy is closed this air reflects off the top and back to...