dogmatix Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 About 1 or 2 months ago my tunze 9015 skimmer crapped out, a used an mce 600 for about 4 weeks which worked great. All the stock is healthy, but i have had all sorts of cool algae appear and one uncool sort BRYOPSIS i now have a new hydro foamer for the tunze and have restored my skimmer from the sump of death that i scored from work an aqoua medic marin 1000 (turbofloater 1000 Skimmer) The one good thing is all the algae is helping the tangs i rescued from work one with mild HLE (tomini tang) and a blue with sever HLE So tommorow i will install both skimmers, remove all sand and do a 150 litre water change. I plan to put pics up of before the clean etc. Some of the rocks with bad bryopsis i plan to remove with the sand clhorinate both and recycle then re use will this be ok ? Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDM Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 shot dude, look foward to seeing the before and after pics. sounds like your in for a long sunday. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 I also did a big clean out, left my sand in though. Drained the sump, its amazing how much crud ends up in there. Skimmer is going nuts after the big stir up. The only thing is I took out too much water and now the systems running a bit low :oops: :oops: Come on RODI, you can do it :lol: Also what is HLE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Head and lateral line ersion, after looking at the tomini tang he is on the track to a full recovery all erosion is gone he just needs to purty up. The Blue has a bad case of mange but with 6 diferent types of algae im confident hell get better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 pics as promised So i plan to run BB for a while and will use either Prodibio or Zeo for nutrient controll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Holy crap, check out that softie!! What is it? colt? Its a monster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Yeah Colt grown from a 10cm frag over the past 18 months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Have you got phosphate remover installed. If it was me and you plan on putting the sand back in some time I wouldn't leave it out or you will have problems when you do put it back in. Just give it a good clean and put it back OR go BB for good. I have good results with vodka as long as you don't go past the recommended dose. HAVE FUN Look for to more pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossco Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 What did you see happening when you did fay? :-? :-? (So I can keep an eye out for those signs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 What did you see happening when you did fay? (So I can keep an eye out for those signs) What with the sand or Vodka? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 with the sand and the rocks i will renitrify them in the bin at work, then the coral cascade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 almost 1/3 of the sand out, didnt put enough salt in the barreal so just witing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 yuk :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 Haha well i just NUKED my tank, system is 600L all up and todays h20 change was 200L Gonna do another 200 next week and another the folowing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossco Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 Hi Fay - the vodka dosing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDM Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 photos photos photos, i know after the dust settles. :roll: mush be looking good though, have you tested your water parameters? no3 po4? did you manage to get all the sand? im keen to have a go with bb but i will see what you think and go from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 the vodka dosing... I haven't really exceeded the dose but if I up it a little things just don't seem right, just happy to stick to the 5ml twice daily helps the skimmer a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted October 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 Getting there And heres a pic of my tiny new anemone Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 cool. great progress. bit of rowaphos to remove the last bit of nutrients to stop feeding that hair algae and you will be set. looks like a baby majarno in the last shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted October 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 Cheers, looks like one i know but its definately not, the person i got it from thinks its a BTA that hybridised with a diferent colour he has, he's got one huge one and 6 the size of tennis balls. Im thinking if its not E. quadricolor it he might have it wrong and its H. magniffica but i dont know this splits asexually or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDM Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 looks god bro, have you got both the skimmers running yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 Ben - It looks like M. Jarno to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinity Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 :bounce: :bounce: Looking real good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted October 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 both skimmers are going sweet ill tune the tunze to run a little darke but it will still run wet and my AM will run dry Doing 180 litres today, one interesting thing is since the water change adding the first skimmer AM and dosing one amp of both bio digest and biooptim the bryopsis has started to brown off and DIE :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDM Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 good work dude, are you using nsw or asw for the change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.