casperhito

No shelves on the stand though.

First come, first serve. It was a workhorse tank and was running for 6 years. It'll be in my front yard starting Sunday morning till it's gone. Don't even have to knock (
I work but the fam will know about it). Grab and go. 1901 General Anderson Ave Vancouver Wa 98661. Sunday morn for free. Not my tank but the same as pictured below.

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I want to give a tank away on the classifieds but there is a post minimum. I have no idea how close I am to being able to post but i'd really like to pay it forward and give this tank and stand away to a possible new reefer. I could post on Craigslist but I want you peeps to have fist dibs. It's a 36g corner round. Was a working tank for 5 years and needs a good home. She's one of those ugly orange corner tanks but hey, It's free to a good home. Hope this adds to my count. 

Cheers,

   Don

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Fantastic, I live in the couve. I'll pm you wen I get home in the evening.

I'll take the salt. Where abouts are you located?

If you still have it next weekend I'll pick it up.

Where are you located?

Where are you located?

How chipped and where?

My current list of solutions. I moved the remaining power head to the far side of the tank. The return from the pump in the other. Also researching day eductors... There is cross flow again. Not turbulent but I'll take what u can get. I am gonna just do extra water changes and keep an eye out for people throwing away macros. My total system volume is only 55 gallons so I figure weekly 10g water changes should be good. Thanks for the advice everyone. I am not so panicked about sudden tank failure. I was looking at the in tank freshwater filters. If my memory serves they have small power heads in them of a similar size as the original. Just an idea.

That's a pretty small little skimmer' date=' I bet a maxijet could run it pretty easily. Sadly I think most of mine are toast, given away, or used. I would consider ditching the skimmer for a fuge for now though. Flow can be slow, most just have the flow of the sump and no extra powerheads in a fuge.[/quote']

 

 

What size maxi would you suggest? The power head it had was super tiny. Low flow, check. I have an LED strip light. Its not very bright but its attached to the sump. My sump is an open sump. No baffles or anything. Just flows through thick filter pad and that's it for mechanical. I have some jerk crabs in there. Will that be a problem?

I'm hoping that the power head for the skimmer is a common one. Buy one and replace it. I did find that the impeller shaft had broken off the inside of the powehead. The impeller went over it. It was just a regular steel pin and sheared off. I found it at the bottom of the sump. I think that was the point of failure.

Thanks jack! I think I got the flow sorted. I'm building a 1 1/4 PVC overflow for the far side. If that doesn't help I'll take you up on that.

Pics of the needle wheel. http://imgur.com/a/jyJWW

The power head literally blew out the side. I don't have it anymore, sorry. I did find the needle wheel. It was a little worse for wear but might be salvageable

It was an off brand one I got from the classifieds here. The display is 30g and the sump is 25g. Would I need flow for the chaeto? The water in the sump is pretty still. Really only the pump intake is the only flow.

Here is an album of the skimmer body. And ideas to get it up and running? Like what pump it needs, ect... http://imgur.com/a/eoP1F

Sorry I haven't been posting but life has took a tern for the worse. Aside from personal issues I had noticed my zoanthids had been shrinking. Many of you awesome people suggested I lower them away from the halide and dirty my water. No prob, made a frag rack away from the light. They started reaching so I inched them closer. All was going well. The next morning they looked bad. Stretched and just not happy. Lately I have had many tank equipment failures and due to recent job loss and other mitigating circumstances I redid the system to run on as little equipment as possible. I found success with every other coral besides the ZOA's with simply a light, heater, skimmer and pump a few power heads for flow. I looked in the sump to do my weekly clean. The skimmer motor burnt out and blew out in the tank. And somehow broke my back up heater. I removed the faulty equipment. Cleaned and did a large water change, threw in some carbon and hoped. A couple days later one of the power heads went. When it rains it pours... Which brings me to today. The flow is horrible in the tank, really only one side is moving. Creating a huge dead zone that is picking up a protein layer due to lack of flow and skimmer. Sadly I am having a reconstructive surgery Wed and on my unemployment single father income that leaves me with no disposable income. With that said is there anything I can build to help solve these issues before Wednesday and I become one armed for a few months? Is there any day solution to skim out the protein? I have some PVC laying around I am sonsidering building another overflow at the other end. That should help the flow problem. I am stumped as what to do about a skimmer. I simply don't have the cash to replace it. And ideas are welcome, thank you in advance.