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OceanicCorals-Ian-
05-05-2009, 09:56 PM
I decided to try some Reef Roids in my home display tank this weekend... HOLY **** does that stuff cause the skimmer to go bonkers!!:surprise: My skimmer wanted to overflow for about 2 hours after adding the stuff even after having it off for 45 minutes directly after adding it.

Anyone else have this happen?
Rbacchiega
05-05-2009, 10:06 PM
not to that extent, nope. I know I used to leave my skimmer off for about an hour when I fed reef roids. Now using coral frenzy I don't even turn it off. Turn off the return section for 20 minutes and go from there.
christyf5
05-05-2009, 10:21 PM
Wow, my skimmer shuts down foam production when I feed that stuff. Weird. :confused:
Lance
05-05-2009, 11:21 PM
Wow, my skimmer shuts down foam production when I feed that stuff. Weird. :confused:


So does mine.
Delphinus
05-05-2009, 11:22 PM
Me neither on the Reefroids doing it, but, interestingly, I have two tanks (well, technically atm, I just shutdown my 20g) skimmed by needlewheels (one is a 20g skimmed by a css65, and other a 40g skimmed by a Bubble Magus), and they will randomly go berserkly overflow once in a while (to the point there's so much foam it pushes the cap clean off and you get the "foam waterfall" effect down into the sump). The first time it happened I thought it was because I had glued a frag down with a new epoxy I was trying, and so I chucked out the epoxy. Then it randomly happened solidly 6 or 7 times since then on the 20g, and it seems to happen about once every 2 weeks on my 40g. Weird. Oh and always after lights out. So I wonder if it's snailspawn or something else like that..
Myka
05-06-2009, 01:26 AM
Try feeding some frozen food to the fish at the same time. The frozen food should counteract it. :)
OceanicCorals-Ian-
05-06-2009, 04:30 AM
Try feeding some frozen food to the fish at the same time. The frozen food should counteract it. :)


That a damn good idea! You are too smart...:biggrin:
Myka
05-06-2009, 04:42 AM
That a damn good idea! You are too smart...:biggrin:

I have my moments... few and far between. ;)
Rbacchiega
05-06-2009, 04:43 AM
I have my moments... few and far between. ;)

:neutral::neutral::neutral:
Myka
05-06-2009, 03:56 PM
Triple neutral Randi. lol So what's the mean anyway?