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rbeyer80

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  1. Way to go, such a good feeling to bring a tank online and that is some nice equipment. I cannot remember if you have other tanks running currently also? How do you like the ecotech return pump, which model is it?

    I currently have a overloaded 14g cube running. The 40 has been going for about a month and a half but just added the skimmer and light a few days a go. I added some zoas the same time as the light as all the levels of ammonia nitrite and nitrate fell off the chart but my wife sent me a pic tonight of a diatom bloom in action and I'm 600 miles away at work (should have listened to the little voice saying patients my friend). As for the ecotech I can't remember exactly what model as I'm away from home this week but if I remember correctly it's around 750 gph

     

     

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  2. Finally got my 40b running after 2 1/2 years of looking at it collecting dust. So far I have 40b with 15 gal sump running asm mini g skimmer, kessil a360w for light, ecotech return pump. May add another kessil depending on coverage not planning a sps heavy tank

     

     

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  3. On Monday I started up my new 40b with dry rock , live sand and added a raw shrimp Tuesday morning then added about 1 1/2 cap fulls of microbacter every day since. Yesterday I began to notice an odd aroma about the house and narrowed it down to the tank. I checked water params roughly 2 ppm nitrate phosphate undetectable both salifert tests. Just wondering if the foul smell is part of the cycle with the decaying shrimp or should I start doing a mass water change?

     

     

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