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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...

As mention in a previous posts, we have had troubles getting our skimmer set up. I finally hit that sweet spot and for a month the skimmer was operating perfectly. Then Tuesday the 24th.... hell broke loose. Chain of events -Tuesday during the day skimmer is acting normal, foam is about mid...

as of right now 10% changes every Saturday morning. Saturday morning at 8 am, I grab my 20 gallon grey brute, throw in my pump and heater and roughly 4 pounds of Red Sea Coral Max salt. Usually by 9:30 it is ready to go. And by 10:30 both tanks have had their glass cleaned inside and out...

More or less it would be to give my wife daily peace of mind in the main tank.

worth it? does it actually work? We test our tank twice a week ever since incident with the rowaphos. And my wife is just hyper paranoid of Ammonia in the tank. The first time we saw the Hanna tester give us a reading of .1 for Ammonia we almost had a heart attack. Since then we have learned...

I can honestly say that we overfeed our reef tank, and possibly under feed our fresh water tanks. The glow fish tank, male beta fish, and female harem tank each get fed once a day. And these guys are all very healthy looking Our 30 and 90 get fed almost 5 times a day... The 30 has an auto...