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Peg, I had no idea you were also a disciple of avoiding water changes whenever possible. Cool! OK, I have the skimmer question to end all questions, and which will possibly lead to epic arguments, for which I'll be sitting back munching on popcorn. You all say I should adjust my water level and...

I will give that a shot....I think :confused:

And here us where mine sat moments ago. Of course I said let's just let it do its thing today. I ignored it, I knew I had a bunch of gunk in the cup, and this is what I found just now. Grrrrrrrr.....

Look at the picture I posted at the beginning of this thread. That's pretty low and the two times I tried leaving it there it didn't recover. And it's been even 2" lower at times. I had no choice but to manually raise the level. Sheesh, I thought I was through with this!

I run a quick rinse cycle in my washing machine, then wash the socks with no bleach or detergent, or anything, really. They don't come out whiter than white but they do get unclogged. When I say the skimmer gets knocked around I don't mean the setting gets changed. But if I don't readjust it, it...

Here's an important point that the rest of you may not even have to deal with and so it may not have occurred to you. The pump on my skimmer actually sits between my two filter socks. Every time I have to change my socks the skimmer gets knocked around because of the tight space. Almost every...

Here is a description of the pump that comes with my skimmer.

Riiiiiiiight..... :confused:

Widowed

Like I told Mandy, I always aim for the funny bone ;-) Speaking of Mandy, where's Kristin been lately?

Also try chemipure elite instead of phosguard. It removes silicates from the water which is like pizza for cyano ;-) Sometime tomorrow I'll take a picture of my filtration. You'll see it's nothing special. 30 gallon sump, Eshoppe PK-200 skimmer, phosban reactor and 36w U.V. I also have a...

I forgot. I also have a sand sifting Gobi. That helps a lot but if you didn't rinse your substrate they'll kick up a cloud every so often. As for advice I dare say I don't think I could tell you anything you don't already know. Plus you may be assuming my tank is maintenance free but I spend way...

I just looked at the pic you posted on page 2, I think it was? It's spotless. Does it not look like that any more? I have to say that when I recharged my phosban reactor with new bio-pellets what little cyano I did have disappeared almost over night. Do you have a phosban reactor?

No comment on the production values? I thought the Jeopardy theme song was a nice touch ;-)

There's just no pleasing these lower life forms!!!

Thanks! So far so good. Did you see the pic and video of the button polyps you asked for? Curious as to what you ID them as.

Thanks, guys. It was just that I'd been feeding it big chunks of shrimp for the past 2 or 3 days and it was folded up like it was full. When I placed the Flame Angel on it, it only slightly folded around it and then nothing happened for a minute, so I figured it was just going to hold on until...

OK, I have video and a picture.

I'm hoping for a few wild fires!!! ;-) I will get you an up close high res shot of the button polyps tomorrow morning.