Dez' Tank Journal

fishoholic · #1 06-15-2010, 02:31 PM

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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?

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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

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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

kien · #2 06-15-2010, 04:46 PM

seriously, not the right time to skim posts.. all I pulled out on my first pass was.. blah blah blah 12" blah blah blah extension blah blah blah 16" blah blah blah erect blah blah blah more extensions! ..

whatcaneyedo · #3 07-27-2010, 03:47 AM

You've been using that extension for over a month. Got any updates for us to say how it worked out?

Skimmerking · #4 07-27-2010, 12:31 PM

Dez make sure that you add more air now with the extension since you have longer contact time or you will find that the mid way up you will see the skimmer get really dirty

Skimmerking · #5 07-27-2010, 12:32 PM

oh ya what pump are you running Dez on the skimmer

Dez · #6 08-07-2010, 12:56 AM

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oh ya what pump are you running Dez on the skimmer

Mike, the pump is my return pump - blackfin 6000. It's got lots of juice and yes I did increase the air a bit but I don't want the bubble size to be too big.

Dez · #7 08-07-2010, 01:06 AM

Well, I have not upgraded this thread in a long time. I've actually been quite bored with it. Stuff is still growing fast. I know that I'm not bored bored, but just busy. With summer there are so much other things to do that the aquarium is not on my mind as much. I bought another mini kind of for parts. I've been going to a lot of festivals here in Edmonton like the Street performers festival and heritage days. There's been many weddings to attend and busy planning our 10 year wedding anniversary party. I noticed that the tank is now 1 year old, so that deserved a couple of pictures.

Here goes - August 6, 2009 Den side of tank

Today - Den side of tank (that purple frag in my last year's shot is now that big colony in the middle of the tank still in the exact same spot). (The brown frag on the left became a colony 10" accross that I sold cause it got too big.)

August 6, 2009 - Living room side of tank

Today - Living room side of tank

What can I say, corals are amazing. It excites me that a 1" frag can become a colony in such a short time. And I have made about 500 frags from this tank already. Thanks for looking.

Skimmerking · #8 08-07-2010, 04:04 AM

Vent the waste collector out side then you wont get the stink. that is what i use to do and it worked great.

Dez · #9 08-07-2010, 12:54 AM

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You've been using that extension for over a month. Got any updates for us to say how it worked out?

Oops, totally missed this post. The skimmer extension is awesome. The skimmate seems worse. My wife has recently started to complain about the stench from the fish room and the tank has been up for a year already, and it's only recently she's complaining about the smell. I agree with her. I need to get some sort of carbon soon for my external skimmate collector cause it really does smell.

whatcaneyedo · #10 08-07-2010, 05:35 PM

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Oops, totally missed this post. The skimmer extension is awesome. The skimmate seems worse. My wife has recently started to complain about the stench from the fish room and the tank has been up for a year already, and it's only recently she's complaining about the smell. I agree with her. I need to get some sort of carbon soon for my external skimmate collector cause it really does smell.

So which would you recommend? The 12", 16" or both?