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lol thanks guys for the help, although i still dont know why turning it off at night and on in the morning adds extra wear though?

here are the pics, the xenias are out more, and the others seem to be doing great getting more as soon as i catch up on my budget also that pic of the feather duster, underneath him used to be all sand,but the purple fire fish dug it out...lol

i would have to agree with running carbon if your not already, if you run carbon like i do then you might want to go with a phosban reactor with carbon in it..

Originally Posted by bmkj02 Also, the off and on will kill your pump. Running it at night time and then shutting it off will start putting some excess wear and tear on the pump. Keep it on really? i never thought of that, i got the idea from someone on here when i had macro bubble problems...

you know thats interesting, ive had my perculas for about three months and they do that all the time. thats very intreging, i always thought they were "scratching" so to speak

Originally Posted by florida joe ok next question why only at night and to know if not running your skimmer is detrimental you need to know what the advantage of running one is, and that would be ? protein skimmers use bubbles to collect proteins and other waste products, those bubble rise...

they kinda looked like stripes at first but then as i looked closer it had hooks, i managed to catch it using a flashlight at night when he thought he was safe

ok, me and my fish thank you :) also will putting a bigger pump on the phosban reactor hurt the process? i got an extra pump thats bigger then the maxijet 1200

well i only run the skimmer at night and with the corals and all i thought not having a skimmer could end up as a big problem

my protein skimmers pump died yesterday while i was at my family's house, now i dont get paid until Wednesday, will my tank be ok without a protein skimmer until then?

ok, stupid question here, why is the time scale of changing out the carbon so different with carbon in a reactor, then with the carbon in a bak pak filter

if this thread is not allowed im sure it will be blocked out or whatnot but thought that these videos would help some of the beginners of the hobby and to alot of the more experienced hobbyists, there are all kinds of vids this guy does and ive found them all to be very helpful...

hey how often would i have to change the carbon in one of those reactors? if im not mistaken im supposed to be changing it every two days for regular

oh ok, well that helps alot, i think i might set mine up like that or similar, if not ill probably buy the pump and fit pvc pipe to make it work...lol

intresting, thanks meowser, im guessing that top line going into the reactor is the main pump then the other line goes to the tank? right?

i wonder if its possible to use pvc pipe to make the reactor completely out of the tank? i dont have alot of room in my sump so im kinda pressed for space, so to speak, any dyi ideas plumbing wise?

yea i noticed that earlier, im going to look into it, its looking really promising

thats not a bad idea...lol why didnt i think of it? lol, i never thought that would work, but now that i looked into a phosban reactor it think im going to get on for that when the budget allows

thanks, im kinda looking into a cheaper solution but that works ill look into it

ok i have a backpack filter on my tank to run carbon, it does its job but has negitive features, here they are: 1. when i pull the filter pads out to fill with carbon, detritus goes everywhere clouding my water 2. takes up space in the tank i have a sump for my tank and was wondering if there...