Saltwater ****es me off

canadianbudz604 · #1 06-03-2013, 04:23 AM

Palys are still half open turbo snail is eating the hair algae and my forest fire red Digi is bleaching out. Softies and lps have never looked better. Changed a ton of water the other day, should I change more in small increments?

Dearth · #2 06-03-2013, 04:29 AM

I would just do normal weekly water changes now of 20% you should start to see change happening over the coming weeks.

canadianbudz604 · #3 06-14-2013, 04:08 AM

So my tank is defiantly starting to look a bit better. Water is a hell of a lot clearer, and the hair algae has slowed down growth. I've gone back to weekly water changes, and when I do the water changes I just scrape of as much algae as I can. I've also added rowaphos in a media bag in my hob filter and it kicks ass. Now, is there a way to fluidize it by making a reactor out of say a Tupperware container or something? I've seen the Gatorade DIY reactor but I don't want an ugly bottle in my tank. could u not use any container as long as the media bubbles in it and doesn't release into the tank? I'm on a very very tight budget right now so any help is appreciated.

JmeJReefer · #4 06-14-2013, 04:09 PM

Straight up outta tha ghetto.
1. Hop in car. Drive to dollarama. Buy a water jug thingy. Something tall n skinny with a removable lid. Drive home. (Don't build it in store, they hate that

)
2. In the lid. Make a hole jus large enuff for a little pump nozzle to fit in.
3. Take some filter sponge, cut to size filter pad, something that will allow water to pass thru but not media, and make large enuff so it snug on the inside diameter of ur water jug thingy.
4. Cut some small slots on a corner OPPOSITE the pump end.
5. Stuff in filter sponge to slot end.
6. Stuff in rowaphos.
7. Stuff another filter sponge in. Near pump end.
8. Screw on lid, stuff pump nozzle into nozzle hole (refer to #2)
9. Now depending on how much of seal u r going for at the nozzle of pump into the lid, and how ghetto u wanna go is up to u... I could suggest a small trip to lowes for $.50 rubber grommet. Put that onto the lid hole and the pump-to-lid snug ratio increases ten fold! R u could slab on some epoxy if that's ur flavour too.
10. Mounting. Dunno. Figure it out.

That or wait till a fellow reefer sells ya a real reactor for cheap....

This is the pinnacle of ghetto rigging a reactor. If there r more terrible ways of doing this, plz feel free to try those too!