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  1. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    got 3 new hydors...2,3, and 4. tell me what you think on theyre placement. 4 2 3 no fish in tank since i said so, just finished battling cyano. lights have been off for weeks killing it. few crabs got a 15 watt uv turbotwist....my new 150 reef octopus if i havent already posted it and a new...
  2. reefriyon

    Sump and refugium questions

    Is your tank drilled for a Wet/Dry? if not do so! so much easier for everything and nicer because you dont see anything. if you dont want to drill it then look up DIY overflow and you will find out how to make one. if you drill it you buy the megaflow kit and your ready to go. for the 20 gallon...
  3. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    ok i have a lot of bubbles on my rocks..if you lok at my pictures and see the cyno...theres bubbles like that on my rocks everywhere that i can just blow off...its not those hard bubbles like ive read about so what is it and how do i get rid of them? i blow them off and they just keep coming...
  4. reefriyon

    reef octopus skimmer how to work

    thank you finally works...i put the airline temp into the hole made it a lil bigger and hoooked it up and it works i will do that connector thing tomorrow or something thanks...is there anything i can do to mod this thing while im at it?
  5. reefriyon

    reef octopus skimmer how to work

    theres no bubbles in the whole chamber at all that must be not working right? theres more bubbles in the sump from the water splashing then that..whats going on????
  6. reefriyon

    reef octopus skimmer how to work

    i got my reef octopus today but i dont know how to work it! first off i broke the airline where it hooks up to the coupling in the pump while tightening it....do i need that? and second my black tube....it doesnt slide to the top all the way like people say to the collection cup...it slides to...
  7. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    say i hav brooknella...how would i treat this? formalin in the tank? or treat the fish if they get sick? im trying to treat it say i have it in my tank but i cant find an answer....i dropped my temp back down to 78 and nothings in it but a few hermits...skimmer is coming monday and im waiting on...
  8. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    ok so im going to raise the temp to 90 and let it cook....that will kill away fungus or parasites right? maybe a possibility of the clown from ***** had something bad and killed everything that wasnt used to it? dunno skimmer is on its way...temp is set to 90 and should i keep my lights on as usual?
  9. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    last fish died tonighttt....dunno why it looked like it was doing soo good too...i had a small blue tang it was eating the algae everywhere it was happy and found it curled up dead on the sand tonight when i got home. it had a really bad white spot on its side...not the milky white like the...
  10. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    also, how would i know if theres parasites or something in my tank? is there something i can put in my tank to kill it orrr yea im just throwing any possibilities i dont know
  11. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    when i did my first big 20 gallon water change i used distilled water...i top of with tap water and use ph buffer with that. ummm i ordered a skimmer last week a reef octopus 150. i havent had the money yet to buy a ro unit which i will when i can believe me...ummm im not trying to rush things...
  12. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    heres the update i added 50 snails 50 hermits and 2 clarkiis this weekend and lets see....all 50 snails are dead since i put them on the rock and hasnt move at all but fall and land upside down....limited hermits are alive still...one clarkii died last night and the other one is hiding in the...
  13. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    what are those bubbles on my rocks in that cyno? i did acclimate them all for at least 3 hours if not more...and my water is perfect right now but my livestock doesnt seem to show the case. the gramma gets aggresive near other fish espiecially since he was the first one in the tank so he claimed...
  14. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    ok....what is going on?!!? everythings at zerooo salt is perfect...added maybe 25 hermits the other day....they are mostly all still where i dropped them in the tank...snails are dead on rocks where i put them...a handful of hermits are on rocks but most of them are still on the sand where i put...
  15. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    20 gallon water change today...cant get those nitrates to go down they were at 15 on my test kit and higher at the lfs. trying to trap the gramma into a breeder holder to see if he is the one responsible for the clowns deaths...thats my hypothesis. haha umm yea he flares up when the black went...
  16. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    i finished my sump and added a refugium tank im scared because i have 2 pumps for it in and out and i dont want it to overflow in case something happens...is there something else i can do to circulate the water back and forth with the sump? i saw the siphon tubes but as the water goes down in...
  17. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    well im adding a trap in my filter because i dont like it the way it is...drained my filter into a seperate megaflow box externally...(cant get 20 gallon sump out of stand) so i glued plexi made a trap and its drying now. tomorrow i will fill it back up... what a mess, and a pain in the you know...
  18. reefriyon

    ReefRiyon 75 Gallon Reef Build Diary

    thank youuu well i took the rock apart...found skeletons haha... i found onyx and clarkii full bodies decaying white stuff all over them...<what is that spot on his lip?> "is that ich" or just decaying dead fish? found dead austrailian in rock last night...sooo shrimp was a skeleton...(sooo...
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