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steven@reev.com
, 11-20-2012 at 01:57 PM (4406 Views)
Hi everyone, it has been a while. I moved and had to down size a bit. our new house has lots of wood in the house and really no place for an 8 foot tank. in the mean time I had to setup the 240 in the garage. It stayed there for about a year and I really did not take as good care of it as i should have. Now I have a 135 gallon 72x18x24 it has only one overflow on one end in the corner. I do have my same skimmer from the 240 an ev240 with a Mag 18. all of my chems Magnesium, Calcium, Alkalinity, PH, etc are right on but I am still getting some green algae, and brown algae on the glass and sand. and the corals are not doing as well as i would like. I really am not sure what is wrong. i gave good water movement and I only feed about two cubes per day of food, 11 fish, a shrimp, and a couple of blennys, and a goby. some corals are doing great, like the bubble corals and my hammer but others sps's are not. any advise is greatly appreciated.

-Steven

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  1. Midnight's Avatar
    What methods of Nitrate/phosphate reduction are you using now, or for the last year?
  2. steven@reev.com's Avatar
    for the last year only water changes and not as often as should have been. but for the last three months, I added a phosban reactor. Nitrates are 0. phosphates are approaching 0 but are difficult to tell as the colors on the test kit are so close it is hard to tell the difference. I was considering purchasing a Hanna checker that has a digital readout. I also recently changed the way the skimmer is working. it was pulling and dispensing the water from the same area of the sump. I just drilled the wall of the sump and plumbed in the skimmer (EV-240) so it resides outside of the sump and now the water pulls from the prior chamber and returns the water to the return area of the sump. it has now been running this way for about three weeks, and I am starting to see some new growth on some sps corals that had been not doing well. so maybe this is a sign that things are beginning to look up.
  3. melev's Avatar
    What age are your test kits? They are only good for a year after being opened, so your numbers may not be accurate. Please read this article: http://www.reefaddicts.com/content.p...-Water-Quality

    That can be a good skimmer if you keep the cloverleaf injector clear of any shells (stomatella, limpets).