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My wife has this fixture on her 24G nano and its great:
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Wow Jim, that is quite a wealth of info on hummingbirds!! We have an orange trumpet plant in our backyard and we get hummingbirds all day during the summer. Its a great, easy to care for plant that the birds are really attracted to. I tried the feeders and never could keep up with the...
I started the Zeovit method too, which factored into my decision to get the BK. Your more than welcome to come by anytime and check it out. It really is an impressive piece of equipment.
It really depends what you are looking to keep in terms of corals and what type of bio-load you are going to have. I plan on having a lot of SPS eventually and also a lot of fish. So I basically went all out and got the top of the line, since I wanted to have as little nutrients as possible for...
I am kind of "anal" when it comes to my skimmer and I clean it every few days, but I would think that amount of buildup is normal for a 3 week span in between cleanings.
FWIW I have a BK300 ext and absolutely love it, LMK if you want any info on it.
Hey Mike, the skimmer seems to be working perfectly, and your bubble column in the body of the skimmer looks great. I dunno if you need to replace the one you have. How long did it take for that much "gunk" to accumulate in the neck of the skimmer??
Well sorry, but you are wrong, .30 PPM is a very high level of PO4. Unless you mean .03 PPM, but that is not what you are writing.
Here is an excerpt from a Randy Holmes article:
phosphate should be kept below 0.03 ppm. Whether keeping it below 0.01 ppm will yield substantial additional...
If your PO4 is "Phos is 0.3" like you list, that is pretty high, and definitely the root of your problem. Are you running any phosphate remover like phosban?? Also what kind of test kit are you using?? It may be higher than the actual reading unless you are using a photometer.
We would have loved to have participated, but we will still be in Italy on our honeymoon. We do this down in FLA when we are staying there. We will be there for the next one. Hopefully this becomes a regular activity, I would be more than happy to help with organizing the next one.