Originally Posted by
Flower
http:///forum/post/3112593
Thanks for your help…
Yes a standard 90g. 22” deep and 48” long
I use different kinds of test kits..Marine master test kit by Instant Ocean, and separate tests by Seachem..I also have a phosphate one by Red Sea. Little dropper bottles and measuring tubes. I get to play chemistry once a week. LOL.
The skimmer is a coralife 225..it is huge and pulls so much sludge out I have a milk bottle with a tube to let the stuff drain into it, and I run it to draw only foam, they called it “dry”. I turn it off for a day when I feed the coral because it sucks everything out including the food.
Here is a picture of what the tank looks like ..picture is a few weeks old, so leather is a bit larger, I want to relocate it. I will have to watch where the mushrooms are…I have true blue and lots of neon stripe ones all over in different spots.
Ok.. few things.. Superskimmers work REAL good when you mod them otherwise they can be iffy and overflow at the slightest change..
Take all those directors off the Koralia's.. Lots more of random flow.
150/175 watt bulbs are doing nothing to punch light down into the bottom portion of the tank..
phosphate kits are trash unless you throw some real money into one that can read super low.. Most will say 0 but its should be like 0.1 or things like that..
I love the aquascaping..
Not trying to be rude or bust balls or anything, just what I have learned over the years...
Example.. I took my SS220 off this tank and replaced it with a Reef octopus 150 this is what I ended up with after about 3 hours
and this after 1 day
I think its fair to say the SS wasnt living up to its true rating at all...
It was skimming like that for about 3 weeks trying to remove all the excess that was built up and not being skimmed out by the SS220...
