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Thanks for the input guys!! I'm one year in with a stock bio-cube and just got the reefmaster test kit ordered. ph been a consistent 7.9 with nitrates around 15-20 so i also ordered chemi-pure elite and thinking about slowly removing the bio-balls and modifying the filtration. corals seem to go...

Simple but often over looked question: When do you guys usually check all of your parameters of your tanks? I usually keep up with my salinity every week with water changes but was wondering how often and when do you all do a ph, alk , phosphate, nitrate test?

This is what your shooting for with your skimate.. But if your cycling your tank then you wont have much to skim out yet. you want the bubble to just barely fall over...anything other than that would be considered a wet skimate. Yes with live rock and live sand it will help cycle the tank but...

The hydor is fairly new (1 week) as my coralife circulation pump broke where you adjust it. It seems to be just fine so far..much more movement than before and it attaches with a magnet. With a little bit of time finding the sweet spot for the pump all the corals seem to be getting plenty of...

ya it didnt take very long for the coraline alge to start spreading. It started on the back wall at first and then just went wild after that.

chris- I would go ahead and do the water change now to release some of those nitrates and then do 10% water changes weekly.

Thanks for the reply #geridoc!! yes i had suggested to the LFS that i wanted to remove the bioballs for better filtration and they pursuaded me to keep them for some odd reason and so i stuck with them. That is a small frag of gsp glued on the back wall so i could get the back wall matted up...

A bit more info on my tank..Its a 29gallon biocube with stock cf's. I've added a aquticlife 115 skimmer about a month ago. I do 5 gallon wc's weekly with premixed salinity salt water from the lfs. Filtration is also stock with the corallife activated carbon filter and bioballs underneath..I just...

Hello all! Im new to the forums and new to reefing so any thoughts or ideas on my nano reef would be greatly appreciated!!