Recent content by Qckslvr

I am here in San Jose, and the only thing that woke me up is my phone telling me after the quake happened. I did run down and check all the tanks, and they were fine, and this morning I had less than normal skimmer activity..... so maybe I need more quakes... my tank likes them. I don't have my...

I will gladly volunteer for the raffle, and if you need a hand with setup. Wife can do photography if you like. Cell Phone or DSLR?

2 months and change

That is the skimmer, and yeah I know it's overkill. I didn't realize this when I picked up the tank and was offered a great deal on the skimmer. When it first started acting up is when I downloaded the manual and read it, and then realized "oh eff this thing is to big." But then it calmed down...

5:30am wake up, skimmer off, phyto, take shower. Roughly 7 am turn skimmer back on head to work.

Our autos feed twice a day the bare minimum it will dispense, and then the wife feeds em a mix of frozen at noon. Just enough that they can clear all the food in a minute.

How does the reefing community handle them? I am sure the auto feeders will work for a couple of days, but what about 1 - 2 weeks? Last time the wife and I went on vacation we paid the neighbors kid to feed our parrots twice a day. The fresh water is easy, once a day.... The reef tank is a...

It has been a hot minute since my last update on the 30... It is pretty stable to say the least right now. So it 's hard to complain. I will post a pic this week, but the clowns are a mated pair now and big! Watching them grow was fun. The six line and hawk fish are both about the same size and...

you are correct the Reef Octopus INT-2000 likes 8-9" depth, but at 8" it gets stupid excited at night and will pump out 10+ gallons of water. And this is despite all my parameters being ok. And the only thing we changed in our tank is the introduction of phyto for the Copepods. I did look at...

My bioload as of right now I would say is medium, as almost all of our fish are young. But that will change, as my wife wants at least three more fish. One of them being a purple tang, I am trying to convince her to go with a white tail, as I have read the purple tang can be mean SOB. And we...

https://www.nyos.info/en/hardware/absch%C3%A4umer/quantum-eq Anyone here have one? The wife and I run the Mobius App, and so far love the app. Originally I was hopping Ecotech or AI made a skimmer pump that I could retrofit to the Reef Octopus, but no luck. The Nyos EQ skimmers are Mobius...

I got the skimmer used when I got the tank. I did not pay much for it. Although it seems to be a highly rated skimmer and pump combo. I cleaned it out over the weekend, I raised it up some more, it now only sits about 6" in the water, I had to put an elbow on the outlet to put it below the...

that's thing.... we didn't add anything to the tank in that time frame :( we add phytofeast to the tank once a day at 5 pm, the skimmer has never responded to phytofeast like this. And my nitrates and phosphates are all stable, no spikes or even a raise in either. during tonight's dosing of...

we use a Reefmat 500. and it is about mid roll at the moment. So no fresh floss. I am thinking of replacing it with a Simplicty 240DC.... The wife wants app controlled, but I just can't justify the cost off the RedSea skimmer.

The skimmer is a Reef Octopus INT-2000 with a bubble blaster pump. operating height is 8-9 inches of water depth. If I raise it any more the outlet will be out of the water, it is just barely below the surface. no controller ATO is a Amazon unit, works very well. It is only trying to refill...