140g

[josie]

we are thinking of changing the skimmer ...
the bioload is quite large and Lieutenant tang eats like a pig lol
currently we have an octopus downdraft (we add a becket injector) but it's not strong enough ...
The orp was 330-350 and now it's more 300-310 since the new tang is in...


Just keep in mind that we want to pay more than 400$ ... therefore no bubbleking or 1000$ skimmers are out...
ratings should be 300/350g (the set up is 200g heavy load)
preferably in sump ...
the foot print maximum is 7.1"x10"

you have any sugestions?

[Lance]

Look into the Bubble Magus line of skimmers. Reasonably priced and perform well. The cone skimmers have a small footprint as well.

[josie]

So we bought a used ETSS600 skimmer for 250$
if it's not strong enought we wil get the extension to make it a ETSS 900...

A litlle addition to the tank today, a pistol tiger shrimp:





really hope it gets along with the yellow watchman we bought last week... or with the blue-spoted we also have...

[josie]

new pics for the tennenti tang!
got some scratch but is in great shape!







good news! a friend is going to let me use his camescope to shoot some videos of the tank!

[josie]

some updates

we observe that the sps were not extending their polyps that much last week... water tests were all good... so we decided to do a big water change (30%) and everything is doing better now... ORP got from 315/320 to 400...
maybe some colonies got some chemical out that affected others..
the mysteries of reef keeping!

after reading many positive things about biopellets we decided to install a reactor to try it out... we bought biobeads (less costly then the biopellets) that arrived today and we will install everything this week-end
I'll keep you posted about this

[josie]

some pics of a 30% water change (every 3 weeks it's a 15% water change usually)



corals from the top (only T5 and moon lights on)













the emptying took about 10 minutes and about 15 minutes filling up after.

[josie]

some pics I took today...