shallowreef
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Well many of you may or maynot know that i have been having a lot of problems with my SPS and my Tank in General. Well i finally threw in the towel and hired my LFS to come out and look at my tank to see if he could find the source of my problem. I cannot believe how dumb i was. He first comes in ad surveys the tank. He helps me lower my lights and moves some of my SPS around to new locations. After that he heads to the sump. And thats when all hell broke loose. He opens up the cabinet doors and says your kidding me right? I asked him what. He points out that i have like a 1/4 inch of detritus sitting on the bottom of my sump. He then begins to pull out my skimmer and realizes that there is something wierd sticking out on the bottom of my skimmer he removes the skimmer and starts to laugh. I guess i put the skimmer in and didn't remove some sort of paper that was protecting the plastic on the bottom of the skimmer. It was suppose to be removed before using the skimmer. So that right there is two things that have to be reaping havoc on my tank.
Well after he left and told me what i should do in order to fix my tank i got to work. I shut off the main pump and the skimmer. I pulled everything out my sump and stuck a mag950 in it and turned it on. Within a second my sump was this awful brown color. I began to pump water out with a powerhead and filtered the dirty water with five 100 Micron filter socks(one placed inside of the other. I then would add the clean water back to the sump and repeated my first steps. I did this about twenty times before the water was crystal clear. My filter socks looked and smelled horrible. I removed what was left of the sticky paper on my skimmer and scrubbed the hell out of it until it was spotless. After about four hours of cleaning i returned everything and started up the tank.
Needless to say i saw an improvement that night. I saw polyp extension. Not alot but more than ive seen in weeks! Sorry the post was so long but i had to tell you guys all about it.
Anybody else have any other suggestions as to things i should check to make my SPS happy?
MLF guy tells me my flow is great and my lights need to be changed out but other than that it all looks good. He also said my Coraline Algae Growth is Amazing.
Thanks for reading now give me some input
Well after he left and told me what i should do in order to fix my tank i got to work. I shut off the main pump and the skimmer. I pulled everything out my sump and stuck a mag950 in it and turned it on. Within a second my sump was this awful brown color. I began to pump water out with a powerhead and filtered the dirty water with five 100 Micron filter socks(one placed inside of the other. I then would add the clean water back to the sump and repeated my first steps. I did this about twenty times before the water was crystal clear. My filter socks looked and smelled horrible. I removed what was left of the sticky paper on my skimmer and scrubbed the hell out of it until it was spotless. After about four hours of cleaning i returned everything and started up the tank.
Needless to say i saw an improvement that night. I saw polyp extension. Not alot but more than ive seen in weeks! Sorry the post was so long but i had to tell you guys all about it.
Anybody else have any other suggestions as to things i should check to make my SPS happy?
MLF guy tells me my flow is great and my lights need to be changed out but other than that it all looks good. He also said my Coraline Algae Growth is Amazing.
Thanks for reading now give me some input
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