Recent content by Dean

Hi Guys, its been running for just over 2 months now

Thanks Louey, problem is it currently skims 0/0 :(

Hi All, I have a lifereef skimmer and it really hasn’t been working that well for me. I just upgraded my pump for it still nothing. Below is the advice I got from Jeff at Lifereef. It doesn’t seem reasonable to me. Essentially he is suggesting that I feed vary sparingly or once...

Hi I don't have an answer but I'm starting to get it on my rosk plus a bunch of lighter colored green algae as well looks very different than the stuff Im used to.

Hi all I have had this skimmer (Lifereef venturi VS-24 powered by part of an an ampmaster 3000) running for ~4 weeks now, Very little bioload, mainly cured rock and small detritivore kits. However I did have a small xenia colony die and there has been an algae explosion but yet no skimmate. If I...

Hi All, I have a 35g hex that has been setup for 6 weeks or so. Currently 3 damsels in there. It has no heater, 3 PHs one MJ 1200 to run the Remora skimmer and 2 MJ 600s for circulation. It has a 12" NO strip light and thats it. Its consistently 5.5 deg hotter than the outside temp. Why? I...

Wow I forgot the joys of setting up a new tank :roll: . Latest problem…the lights! I am running two 6’ VHOs on an icecap 440 ballast. The lights come on for 20 seconds then go off. All the connection seem good. Did it according to the wiring diagram on the ballast. Any ideas?

Thanks Mike!

Hi Mike, where did you but yours from, was in online? Leonard's place has itr for $75 for 4 Id love to get it for $55 if I can Dean

I have no idea I copied it from another place it must have brought something with it (actually they're subliminal messages "answer the post...ANSWER THE POST" :wink: )

Hi All, I just set up my tank. Its run by an Ampmaster 3k and its running my skimmer, a cycliner (for media like carbon) and the return. Its inlet is 2 1"ers and then the outlet is 1 1/2" which splits three ways (1", 1" and 3/4") . I have the return and cyclinder slighlty throttled back with a...

Right o' JermyR Planning a dwaf lion and probably a kole tang and I have a life reef 36" skimmer. Eggcrate I feel so stupid! I bought the eggcrate, cute the pvc pipe supports and at the last minute decided against it becasue I was told the eggcrate would impede the movemnt of the microfuanaI...

I’m just about to add my LR to my 135g tank (90 LBS PLUS ~ 25 LBS of dead Fiji rock). I already have 4-5” of Southdown play sand in there. I was planning on getting a few detritivore kits plus some LS and doing the whole DSB thing. Last night I did some more reading and Im totally...