this can certainly work - just make sure you pick a hob skimmer with overflow tube/control - in-sump skimmers you dno't have to worry about over flow, hob skimmers you do to prevent flooding.I cant believe I didn't think of that.
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this can certainly work - just make sure you pick a hob skimmer with overflow tube/control - in-sump skimmers you dno't have to worry about over flow, hob skimmers you do to prevent flooding.I cant believe I didn't think of that.
I just got quite a few nassarius. Are those not a good choice? I heard they are good at keeping the sandbed clean. I know that astrea never did anything but stay in the same spot on my glass for days and days when I used to have them. I quit buying for that reason. I have a few cerith and a turbo and the rest nassarius and hermits.Test the water that you purchase which may very well have elevated levels. Add also a pouch of chemipure elite which will keep nitrate and Phos in check and also add some snails:
Cerith
margarita
astrea
trochus
turbo
and about 6-8 blue leg hermit crabs
Cerith and margarita are better workers.,I just got quite a few nassarius. Are those not a good choice? I heard they are good at keeping the sandbed clean. I know that astrea never did anything but stay in the same spot on my glass for days and days when I used to have them. I quit buying for that reason. I have a few cerith and a turbo and the rest nassarius and hermits.
I am having the same problem with stringy algae. I think I had dinos from o nutrients then I believe that changed over to something different. I hadvt done a water change in 3 weeks and when I vacuumed the sand bed tonight and blew of the corals it released a ton of stingy stuff, before it was slimy and couldnt vacuum because it would clog the hose very fast so I had to use a turkey baster and get it out little by little! Very time consuming. Its funny though because I dint realize until I vacumed today that it had changed so much (because it looked the same on the sand bed) I expected it to clog which it did after a while from it being stringy whereas before it clogged immediately and was a huge mat of slime. Didn't look slimy until you tried to get it up.
I did a chemiclean treatment and didnt seem to do anything but maybe it changed it to whatever it is now, I just assumed raising nutrients did. Its still a pain because it killed my corals that were on sand bed. I just tonight realized maybe because the flow is lower down there that they were being smothered without me really being able to see it.
Sorry I didnt mean to hijack post I just meant to ask about the snails! haha