maintainence

📄 Job Title Senior Reef & Pond Systems Technician (Part-Time – 1–2 Full Days/Week, 1099) 📍 Location Plantation / Fort Lauderdale, FL (33324) 💼 Position Overview Seeking an experienced technician to assist with ongoing maintenance and management of a ~1,000-gallon mixed reef system and a large...

This is definitely a message to myself, but hopefully it will also be helpful for others as a reminder. My Red Sea ReefLED 90 needed a clean after 18 months. I found this video helpful, as the manual is useless for a cleaning routine.

Im currently working on replacing the impeller on my Fluval 207 canister filter, it kept making clicking noises so I decided to order a new impeller. ( I know canister filters aren't recommended but its been working great for me so far, and I clean it every two weeks religiously. (running fiter...

Hello! I’m curious as to how you guys clean the bottom front portion of your Aquariums glass (near the sand bed) I have this bottom portion of the glass that is always hard to clean… right near the sand bed there’s about a 1-1.5 inch portion of stubborn algae that is always a pain in the *ss… I...

I had to come up with a catchy thread name.. This is for all those tank maintenance companies that screw over good people and their hard earned money. Lets hear any horror stories from maintenance companies you have ran into, before and after pictures would be great! This week I finally took...

Hey everyone Ive been struggling to figure out what is growing on my live rock. I have a 150 gallon FOWLR with a 60-gallon sump that I've had for 2 years. I have a long spine porcupine puffer, red coris wrasse, harlequin Rusk, majestic angel, 5 lyretail anthias and a snowflake eel. My parameters...

So, I call this tank "Chucke2.3". Chucke1.0 was a 40 gallon toe-dip into the hobby about 12 years ago after many years of fresh water tanks. A couple pieces of live rock, two frags from a coworker, a small in-tank skimmer, a Coral Beauty and a Yellow Tang introduced me to the world of wonder...

Hello all I have a tank that’s about almost two years of age. Waterbox 90.3. I went and took a peek into my overflow box and was stunned how much algae and build up on the main drain opening there was. I ended up shoving a brush down there and cleaning it but can’t seem to find a way else...

Hello Reef2Reef community, Firstly, pardon any newbie mistakes in this post; I'm still getting acquainted with this platform. A bit of background: About 5 years ago, I was the proud owner of a small reef tank. However, circumstances led me to sell it. I also have a history with freshwater...

Hi everyone, I posted recently and a lot of you had great answers so I’m asking more questions. I’ve only ever had beta fish before and that was an extremely long time ago. I was going to get back into the hobby and get another beta when I found myself in the position of inheriting someone’s...

Hi all, I am new to the Reefing Hobby and just stared my first set-up in November of 2022 with an old tank I used for freshwater (cleaned thoroughly). I do weekly water changes of around 15-25% but have never cleaned the chamber that houses my pump (including the pump) since staring the tank...

hello all I am new to reef2reef and I’m having a little trouble, I am dealing with some pesky, what I’m thinking is either Dino's or Calothrix. I’ve been trying to get nutrient levels up but can’t seem to. Can’t even keep Cheato alive which I’m assuming with a new-ish tank this is going to be a...

Hello, What is the best way to stick your rocks together? (Silicone/Glue/Pudding/Other suggestions) I was doing maintenance on the tank (10 Gallon) and kept bumping into the rock on the top and it keeps falling down, As of now I have a pair of clowns but would like to add more...

Thought someone might find this interesting, doing a regular deep clean of my skimmer and had the pump apart after letting it run in a hot water acid bath. when i pulled out the impeller i was greeted with a impeller full of pet hair. Maybe someone will go clean there pumps now.

Hello, This is my first time posting a question, so thanks ahead of time for your responses! I'm looking forward to learning here... I've been in the saltwater hobby for 8 years and I'll be moving out to college in a few months. I was looking to set up a pico reef using a 2.5 gallon glass...

I just went to restart my tank after a few years out of the hobby and my protein skimmer pump isn’t pushing water. It’s an AQ 2000s. It hums but won’t actually push any water. Anyone got any ideas on if I can fix it or am I just better off buying a new one.

fairly new to hobby how frequent do you replace filtersock. Just placed some ick treatment and wanted to know if I should replace the sock to help get rid of any ick/ich treatment trace still in the filtration.