gees get over it already

gees get over it already

Back to the measurement thing....

for some people,, 1inch or 2 inch

dont worry slappers i'll have that hose sorted before you come over.

might get my wife to cut it as on sunday when i cutting the tube that goes into the skimmer the stanley knife broke and cut my finger open a little bit.

So Brian does that mean my "new" skimmer might be ready sometime soon?

yip, i'll give it a good clean tommorow

gees get over it already

does the skimmer drain into an oceanworx product ?

Looking great BTW

yip it drains into an autowaste collector, cylinder with a pingpong ball that floats up to shutoff collection and backs it up to the collection chamber (so that the waste collector is used more than the collection cup its self allowing for more waste to be collected and a better designed riser tube as well

Seems to be 2 conversations going on!

Confusing...

problem solved, my thread, no more conversation about metric vs imperial. :evil:

the skimmer pulled out about 1 litre of watery skimmate last night, alot wetter that u would like but thats all part of the dailing in proccess.

all going well no leaks

you working today??

no leaks (at least not now that i put every thing in place :oops: )

got the whole week off

sweet hows that pump cleaner coming on have you finised it or having started it

havent started yet. got lots of time

the skimmer pulled out about 1 litre of watery skimmate last night, alot wetter that u would like but thats all part of the dailing in proccess.

I've never seen the problem with wet skimmate. At least you know your getting max crud out.

We do water changes so there's nothing wrong with taking a little water out in the skimmate.

Just my humble opinion

My theory was that too wet a skimmate would take out more salt and change the salinity - which wont be fixed by just adding topup water? Dunno about that though.

id prefer not to have to empty it three times a day though

there is wet and then there is wettttt.

it will take at least a few days untill the skimmer starts hitting its stride

Crack a few eggs in there Brian,

Whats the difference between becket injectors and straight venturis?

design, never seen the inside of a beckett though so i cant say whats different

well three updates tonight.

after emptying out another two litres of cloudy water from the waste collector, which by the way is the greatest invention ever (i'll elaborate on the skimmer thread) i tweaked it this morning and instantly i had a massive head of foam form, not just lots of bubbles but real foam. :bounce:

second: i did some tests

Nitrate: 0

Calcium: 400

kH: 8 (bit low but acceptable)

third thing is a little weird, i took some xenia out to rossco's house (probaly about 70% of the total xenia in the tank)

as soon as i took it out i noticed some of the white xenia wilted abit, by the end of the day it had almost shrunk into non existance and then by the end of the next day it had gone. :-?

now that's weird Murry at pet world his has done the same. and i had a new bit growing got as high as 10cm and now shrunk ??? will look at it tomorrow to see if it is still there

My white one is doing fine.

Its scary some of the times you guys write posts....

Just as well you have reef tanks to keep you off the streets!

Hey Jimmy, look after the white Xenia, it could be the last left in the Waikato at this rate. We will all be coming around to get some frags off you!

Mines still on the rocks but still quite 'wilted' - the brown looks a lot perkier.

:-?

kh @ 8.0 aint that low! spot on really. i got some white xenia you can have some frags off when you come up to aucks later this week.