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Selling my Octopus DNW-150 needle wheel skimmer. Comes with the euro conversion PVC for easy hookup, and a gate valve for fine adjustments. Bought the skimmer brand new from aquacave.com , used for less than 3 months. Pump is practically new. Asking $200 + shipping or...... $200 pickup in the...

use a turkey baster and blow on the rocks just before you do a water change so all the detritus gets stuck in the water column as you change the water. Great method. Also, increase your water changes to once a week. Once your tanks good to go, a yellow tang will destroy hair algae. just fyi if...

I use 2 part and juggle between both keeping alk stable within +-1.0 value.

I heard they're hiring officers with skinny fingers :)

Those are good skimmers if you have them in the correct water level range. I had a G3 for about 6 months til I downgraded to an external octopus dnw150. My water level was around 11' but it didn't do well. I heard of people with much success between 7-9 inchs.

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Greetings Everyone, I was referred here by a fellow Hobbyist and I wanted to formally say Hello to everyone. I was born in the south bronx and raised in uptown, near Fordham road/ webster ave. Left for college @ 18 in 1999 and have been working in the I.T. field ever since in the MA area. I...

randys website Randys Website goes into discussion about things relative to precipitation. Take a look, and good luck. Personally. I find when i'm not keeping Calcium and alk levels up to par I get the white/greyed coralline. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2002/chem.htm

Dosing Kalk? or Calc? You should be dosing Calcium. Kalk is more to maintain PH and parameters during night when PH drops. I assume if your dosing KALK and not Calc then theres your problem. What are you Calc/Alk/Magnesium parameters? alk, mag, calcium in that order to avoid precipitation...