Berger9953

Hey there PNWMAS!

I'm having a real problem picking the best skimmer for my 20g. I want a relatively small skimmer. A very high quality but not to expensive, and a super efficent skimmer. I've been looking at the AquaC Remora nano and the Tunze nano 9002, does anyone have any experience with these? My ultimate goal is to have crystal clear water, and I've had a hard time with it. Thanks in advance yall! Berg

Alright, I greatly appreciate all of the wonderful help! I'll update everyone once I get it and take a pic. But probably will still wait for my tank to stablize and mature at least another month or so. Thanks again! Berg

Great reef! I think i picked out the cyphastrea....So you don't go out of your way to feed them, just let them pick up their own food that passes buy?

Do you have a link? I would love to see it!

That's kinda sad. Can corals be under stress like fish can? I mean, of course they can die and get sick, but is the best way to prevent infection high water quality? kind of a dumb ? lol

May I ask: What is RTN?

Great pic! Sorry, should have been more specific, online.

And what are its feeding requirements?????

I'll have to wait a bit also because my tank has been extremely cloudy lately and its just starting to go away.

One other question: On dd, you see the coral covering the plug like a blanket, but yours doesn't seem to do that, it looks like its only branching...

Thanks guys for the quick reply. The cyphastrea is the middle one right? The lighter one? And I would be putting it in a 20 gallon with 48w t5ho with ind. reflectors. And I have one nano koralia and one nano oceanic biocube ph. I have pretty good flow I think. Is there a cheaper place I could buy one? I usually wait on dd for the price to go down over time.

https://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+5&ddid=89583

So has anyone had good experience with these corals? I want sps really bad, but I don't have enough lighting. The website says that this is a lps, but im convinced its a sps. What does pnwmas think? Thanks, berg

I contacted stylaster and apologized for my lack of wisdom on my part for not asking for permission to do that at TRT. But he said it was fine as long as I put pnwmas.org at the forum title and make it clear that the headquarters are here. So I'm glad this is straightened out. And I;m sorry to everyone for my nieve move!

no need to get it restarted. Just come over here. There is a huge wealth of knowledge and some really amazing people all over the PNW hanging out here. I found this site after all the hoopla that seems to have went down so I can't comment on that.

 

PNWMAS is truly alive and well though I can tell you that. We hold meets every month, have contests and competitions, we do giveaways at times, we have a thriving Tanks for Teachers program, a large list of sponsors who are very involved with the site and it's members, and probably a couple hundred active members and tons more "lurkers" too.

 

This is definitely an open invitation to come on over and truly be part of the PNWMAS club. Bring anyone who decided they wanted to be part of the club too. Some of the guys here have just watched this forum grow from nothing into what it is today so they are protective over it when things like this pop up. I'm sure they would love to have you over here also though. Hopefully we start seeing you more regularly...

Thank you so much for being so kind and understanding!! Your like a breath of fresh air!!

I apologize to everyone for my childish move to try and "run" pnwmas at TRT. I've contacted a administrator over there about the situation. If everyone is feeling this way, I wouldn't mind shutting it down, it just started and only 4 members at TRT. I hope everyone understands that I honestly had no intention of stealing the name or trying to bring the attention to trt instead of here. I'll let the TRT administrators decide what will happen to the club. If you are all cool with simply putting pnwmas.org at the club title, I'd be happy to do that. Sorry for the confussion!! Berg

That is super cool!!!

I've also seen diy projects where people use a glass cover and then drill alot of holes in it so gas exchange is still proficent and light isn't filtered through as much.

Better yet - I just noticed one of the PNWMAS sponsors - Air Ice Water is having an RO sale and they have TDS meters also.

 

http://www.pnwmas.org/forums/showthread.php?p=178771#post178771

Hey Jack, on my other thread you gave me a link about lights, and it said that the actinic light actually encourages algae growth. ANd my bulbs are 1 10k and and 1 420nm actinic. Could that be a factor? But on the other hand I have seen plenty of tanks with alot of actinic bulbs and they have crystal clear sand.

I have not had great "consistency" with API-and as such would never use them again.

My experiance anyway

oh, really? Interesting, I'll keep that in mind when I need to get another one.

Thank you very much for helping, but I found out one of my lfs's have one that I can test my RO with.

Thanks for the link, I learned ALOT(clap)

Thanks for the link and advice. But last night I signed up at reefcentral and pm'd him. I'll still read a ton though..Thanks! Please feel free to comment or post your opinions if you have anymore about the thread.

You guys are so right about the lfs's. I'm definetly going to order more there instead of online.

Or maybe their saying "We got to get out of here!" And they're jumping out...

This grimreefer, yes, what is his charge? jk. Do I have to become a member to talk to him?

dsoz, what is there besides white and blue bulbs? Or are you refering to MH?

Guy here-LOL

 

That was NOv. The 80 gallon came in december, I sold it and went glass 75 gallon in FEB-now I'm done-not by choice, I should have got the 90 gallon.

 

Google PAR

 

I dont know what you are meaning, if you put what towards the top-I never meant for anything to be out of the water-(nono)

 

2-6 inches below the surface

Should have been more specific, if I place a sps coral(branching for example) near the surface then when the water level drops or it grows to high, the air will penetrate it.