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Until you cycle the tank you should not have to run the skimmer! I would cut the skimmer off until the cycle it complete. At this point add a couple of shrimp from the grocery store and watch them for a couple of days. Once it spikes and gets a cycle going ( anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks) then...

water changes about the best way to get amonia down safely. the ph is low as well you may want to check about the sg because that can through off ph levels. Ph is also can go off due to calcium levels ect. have you tried any buffer to get the ph up. baking soda will work there or you could...

amonia should be zero!!! ph is low should be at least 8.0 to 8.4 sg ? where are you at with that? has the tank been cycled? temp? my guess is the ph is very low and amonia is toxic to fish

The pictures you posted helped alot! the #2 picture is a protine skimmer. #3 is your fuge /sump. #4 and #5 are your overflow #6 is the plumbing from overflow to fuge. Basically the overflow goes on main tank and this will catch water and take down to fuge which should be set up with plants ...

Brine have very little nutritional value if any. It's more like feeding candy. I would try some frozen Miss shrimp. I usally feed my fish a mixture chopped miss, alege blocks, and flake. This seems to work good.

Do a search in this fourm using Refuge you will find all kinds of drawings of diffrent fuge setups!

I have 2 penguin bio wheel filters (150's) on my 55 gallon. I used to have problem with nitrates until I started taking filters out about 1 to 2 times a week and clean off build up on them. After that my nitrates started to fall off and they are working good.

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one tip. put sand in first. once you add water put a plate on the sand and pour water on plate. this will keep sand from stirring up and not clouding up the water really bad and it will clear out quicker.