I had an innovative marine midsize (burned out) and now a k1-50What skimmer do you have?
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I had an innovative marine midsize (burned out) and now a k1-50What skimmer do you have?
Micro bubbles may not be a concern right now unless they are bad for fish. Supplying oxygen and clearing bacteria seem most important. By the way, I appreciate that the skimmer might be going nuts, foaming over and producing too much skimmate to manage because there is more to life that emptying buckets of skimmate :)The bigger problem is with such a thick water there is that the micro bubbles fill the tank in minutes. I have had two protein skimmers and one caught on fire lol (started smoking) neither worked under any adjustments. They didn’t have this problem in clean water I even experimented and added a good amount of selcon to the clean water and after a day it worked fine in the water I made.
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Good guess no I don’t used it as it is way to big lol. I turn it on for a few seconds to move food around.I am not seeing this as bacterial. I see a huge power head and sugar sand. You sure it’s not a sandstorm?
Thanks will give a look tonightNobody ever got cloudy water after a rip clean. You should rip clean since it’s a small system, and forego ID issues, just dispense with the cloud and be laser clear.
pick any job linked here, copy it, your tank is now clean
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Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread
I need to to a tank swap out here in the next few weeks. same tank size just a full replacement. red sea 650P around 180ish gallons I have 2" of carib sea special grade my fav. sand. I plan to put the fish corals and LR in to a tank with HOB filter, flow heater and light for maybe (...www.reef2reef.com
it’s not impossible that yours can’t come back after a deep clean, but theres no precedent for that in fifty pages of work so your % chance is safe bet. You will find out if suspended silt was an issue when you do your tap rinse on the sandbed + clear glass verification test per page 1 examples
you can then change to ocean direct sand/ still tap pre rinsed/ if your current sand is too fine for rinsing and settlement
what size tank is it and is it the mp40?Good guess no I don’t used it as it is way to big lol. I turn it on for a few seconds to move food around.
The problem is my file fish gets caught in it… super annoying lol. It’s a 40 breeder effectively.what size tank is it and is it the mp40?
very unlikely the powerhead is too big for the tank, turn it on, flow really helps a lot of processes in the tank.
Even when it’s running?The problem is my file fish gets caught in it… super annoying lol. It’s a 40 breeder effectively.