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I have a Deep Six plastic hydrometer that was given to me by my uncle who just recently got me into this hobby. The hydrometer works pretty good for the most part, but sometimes I get a reading that is way off, and sometimes I can test 5 times in a row and get 5 different readings. I usually...

Great explanation. Moderator should sticky this for others to read and understand a little better.

I read somewhere else that they might conflict with some shrimp in the tank? Would they bother peppermint or coral banded shrimp? The Yellow Watchman looks cool.

Definitely love the third pic. What a difference. Great tank!

The pump comes with a plastic piece to put on the intake that is like a grate that would block the anenome from getting in it. If it got close enough though it could get one of it's tentacles in the slits.. Where would I get a prefilter like you are talking about? Maybe if I saw a pic I would...

Ok I understand.. From the pic I have attached you can see that all of my flow is concentrated on the right side of the tank now. The Maxi-Jet 1200 is in the black Pre Filter box for the skimmer, and you can see the Eheim intake (green) and spray bar (also green, at right side of tank near water...

Well considering the Maxi-Jet hooked up to the skimmer does 295 gph and my Eheim does 280 gph than I am over the minimum of 550, is this correct? And was I correct in stating that the pump would just go into the tank to intake and output water, meaning I would just put the pump itself at the...

After reading many threads on this board I see that water flow is extremely important, and it seems as though you cannot have too much of it. The only equip. producing any kind of flow now in my tank is my Maxi-Jet 1200 pump (295 gph) which is used as the intake for my HOT AquaC skimmer, and...

I purchased the Eheim Wet/Dry Canister 2227 model. Seems to work great. I have a very new tank, but my nitrites have been 0 ever since it has been setup. Very easy to setup the filter itself. It doesn't come with the ball you need to prime it which they don't tell you when you buy it. I just...

Yeah I did mine slowly also, and it didn't kick up hardly any sand at all, but the water got real cloudy after the water change and took a few hours to get back to half-way normal. Just all of the stuff on the rocks kicked up cause my LR is a hair above half-tank level. If I were to get a pump...

Plate is a good idea, but its next to impossible to hold a 5 gal. bucket of water over the tank to pour the water in with one hand to allow myself to hold a plate with another, hahaha.. Would my pump idea work? just get a pump and hook a hose up to it to pump water from my 5 gal buckets into...

Speaking of water changes, I just did my first one yesterday. Did about a 50% change. Used the Python to pump the water out of the tank and took if from Mid-Top tank level. I had pre-mixed 20 gals. of salt-water in 5 gal. buckets and just dumped them into the tank as slowly as I could to not...

Recently purchased the Prefilter box (which can be seen in the middle of this page: http://www.proteinskimmer.com/accessories.htm). Installed it yesterday after I did my first water change. Seems to work well. Took a little adjusting to get it at the right level. When it was too high the...

Most likely better?

Went out to my local super wal-mart and they didn't have the RO water either. I have an RO system in my house but didn't have enough time this past week to get together 20 gals. of RO water as it takes a very long time. Ended up with about 8 gals. of RO water and used the Wal-Mart Distilled...

Also, what kind of media do you put in yours, if any? I already have an Eheim 2227 Wet/Dry canister filter with EHFI Substrat in it. I guess more filteriing with the prefilter box wouldn't hurt. Just curious as to what I'd put in it, or if it would be a good idea to put anything in it. Thanks again!

Thanks so much for the suggestion Beth. Looks like it'll do exactly what I need it to. Where do you purhcase your AquaC equip. from? I found it online at two places, both the same price. I got my skimmer from the first place: http://www.inlandreef.net/remora.html...

Anyone else use this skimmer? If so, do you have any problems with filmy residue remaining on top of the water in your tank? Never had the problem until about a week ago. Was going to try and adapt some type of fitting to the powerhead to move the intake up higher near the very top of the water...

I have tested Nitrate/Nitrite levels and they are ideal. I have also tested the Ammonia levels which are also Ideal. Would this be the case if the tank was not OK?

Anybody??