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Old 09-14-2014, 05:45 PM
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What to do with skimmer ? I have been running my tank now for a couple days with a sand bed and saltwater no fish or rock. My skimmer looks like it's been cleaning something and I get dirty water in cup do I run the drain hose to floor drain ? It seems to be condensation in cup building water do I have it set wrong ?
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Old 09-14-2014, 05:48 PM
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Old 09-14-2014, 06:37 PM
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My skimmer is also making lots of micro bubbles how do I tell it to stop besides unplugging it
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Old 09-15-2014, 12:33 AM
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Just let it run. You don't have any type of bio-load in your tank, so it's not going to that much
anyway. Once you add fish and rock, it will start pulling out organics, etc. I've used this
skimmer before and found it to be pretty good.
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Old 09-15-2014, 03:31 AM
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So I made some ro- di water about maybe 300 gallons and my Tds is reading 2 ppm that can't be right.
My tap water in Toronto has about 250 TDS. Yours seem very high.
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Old 09-15-2014, 06:47 AM
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My tap water in Toronto has about 250 TDS. Yours seem very high.
It's because it's well water it actually goes over 1000 ppm my water is really soft and clear and no chlorine but was lab tested and it's all good.
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Old 09-19-2014, 05:16 AM
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I got my pukani dry rock yesterday from eli at fiji reef rock. I gave it all a bleach bath for the nightthen today I did the acid bathafter that I started building my aqua scape it should be ready to put in tank tomorrow
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Old 09-19-2014, 05:19 AM
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I also need someone's skim from there skimmer in grande prairie to seed my tank
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Old 09-22-2014, 02:57 AM
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bleach or muriatic?

Do you need to do that with the base rock ???

Scape looks great if you can replicate that in the tank.
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Old 09-22-2014, 02:33 PM
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Nice progress man well done
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