Dez' Tank Journal

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Originally Posted by Dez

So here's the plan then. Order a new tank, order new lights etc. Send my wife and kids away for a week....then during that week install the new tank and everything. Then when my wife and family comes back, they can't really make me take it out..... think it'll work?

Originally Posted by Dez

Maybe Vegas would work. It would be even better if I sent her away alone and kept the kids with me, then they could help. I'll just tell her it was the kids' idea

Sounds like a good plan to me

Originally Posted by Dez

Well, at this point I really couldn't do anything about girth, so all I could do was to extend the length of it. No I don't have to feed more flow from the pump, I simply raised the water level with my gate valve. My theory is that the more erect it is, the more contact time the bubbles have, thus skimming more? I don't know. And Brett, FYI the skimmer isn't fully erect yet. I still have a 12" extension sitting in the box

Yet another good reason to fully read the whole comment. Somehow I read the part in bold and I missed words in front of it. Makes more sense when you read it all together