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Skimmer isn’t working again…
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  1. Clean skimmer and hope that fixes it
  2. Replace skimmer with bigger refugium
Please vote!
Clean skimmer AND pump.
 

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Skimmer isn’t working again…
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  1. Clean skimmer and hope that fixes it
  2. Replace skimmer with bigger refugium
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Both?
 
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The reason One of many reasons I hate this skimmer is that it so easily stops working when it sucks up other things. My other skimmer (which wouldn’t fit in this sump). Works great in a full refugium. This one needs a very clean compartment. Thus I can’t grow algae where the skimmer is.

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Is that the skimmer you couldn’t get the collection cup off of at first?
 
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Is that the skimmer you couldn’t get the collection cup off of at first?
Above? No. That’s the one that is easy to clean and almost always works.

This is the skimmer I hate
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If there a way you can add mesh netting to cover the input? Would that help guard it against large pieces?
 

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What beautiful colors. What lights do you use?
 

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The reason One of many reasons I hate this skimmer is that it so easily stops working when it sucks up other things. My other skimmer (which wouldn’t fit in this sump). Works great in a full refugium. This one needs a very clean compartment. Thus I can’t grow algae where the skimmer is.

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9012? Usually Tunze skimmers are great.
 
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What beautiful colors. What lights do you use?
AI blades grow and glow. If the background is gray then it’s on the grow side. If it’s purple the glow. I think maybe my corals under the glow are prettier? Which is annoying because the glow makes things hard to photograph.


Anyway someone name this acropora! I’m guessing “Dr Seuss” is already taken.
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BTW I did not alter colors at all. This is just an orange filter and some folding with warmth.
 

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As in it's going to have kids???
If it grows big enough it may have chunks cut off and sent to… Whatever my version of heathens are?
 

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If it grows big enough it may have chunks cut off and sent to… Whatever my version of heathens are?
Well, let's see, there are the Heathens, the Cronies, the Smorgs, the very exclusive Officelings .. so I'd have to venture a guess "Not Quite Dead Yets" aka "NoQuiDdYs"
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