140g

[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...

[steveg]

Fantastic tank, looks really good!!!

I am curious to know what you think of the new skimmer and what pump you are using on it. I have a 900 and have mixed feelings although i suspect part of my problem has been the pump.

I would welcome your thoughts.

Thanks

Steve