biomax

[bri74]

can I get some opinions on this biomax stuff for canister filters?

[reeffreak]

Can you give a link?

[bri74]

duhhh sorry.http://shopping.msn.com/reviews/shp/?itemId=838471560
having some tank "issues" so I am a little out of it

[reeffreak]

You have 100lbs of live rock already.The ceramic rings will only add to the biofilter so they won't do anything rock rubble in fuge would accomplish.

What tank issues are you having?

[bri74]

Well I had a ton of green hair growing on the back wall of the tank and all over the heater and skimmer pump and one piece of LR odd I know. I have never had anything like this in my tank.... but I guess that dont mean a thing lol. I scraped it all off yesterday cause I just got home from work for two weeks so it grew all the time I was gone. This morning I woke up to tons of clear stringy slimy crap everywhere. I put in a new filter in the magnum 350 with those ceramic things and shut off power heads hoping that the filter would catch it, so far it did. But my water smells like hell and that is never like that at all. My water quality is good as always I use two test kits API and Red Sea. the tests come out equal I will repost some more results tomarrow along with a ph. I use ro/di water with a mity mite system which all the filters on that are only 3 months old. Making some new water as we speak for a 10 gal change.I dont have much of a cleaner crew cause my critters tear em apart as fast as I can add them. All that is left in there is about 10 asst. snails 8 if im lucky hermits and a decorator crab. The current livestock in tank is 1 Big lion. 1 Big black longspine urchin. and 1 engineer goby about 6 inches long. and 1 LTA. 130 watt compact flou. Blue LED moons. Seaclone 100 skimmer which seems to produce well.

[yote]

It would be a good idea to up-grade to a better skimmer.I think that would go a long way in helpping your tank.A seaclone is fine on a small tank(20 gallons and under).
Also try running some carbon,that should help with the smell.

[kyle]

i heard those ceramic rings or whatever work. but they take time to "seed". For the smell run some carbon. last night my old skimmer was leeking and I woke up this morning and I had like 3.5 gallons soaked in to my carpet. so now my whole room smells like dirty fishtank. i have to get a carpet cleaner now.

[bri74]

will pick up some more carbon today thanks

[McCrary]

The ceramic rings are only going to do something if you have ammonia levels in the tank. The rings help convert ammonia into nitrate. Your algae problem is most likely caused by a combination of nitrates and phosphates. Start running GFO in a reactor and buy a bigger skimmer. Seaclones are notoriously ineffective and is probably only producing stuff because you have quite a bit of DOC's. The trick is going to be to increase the rate at which organics are being removed from the tank and get your phosphates lowered.

[bri74]

Originally Posted by McCrary

The ceramic rings are only going to do something if you have ammonia levels in the tank. The rings help convert ammonia into nitrate. Your algae problem is most likely caused by a combination of nitrates and phosphates. Start running GFO in a reactor and buy a bigger skimmer. Seaclones are notoriously ineffective and is probably only producing stuff because you have quite a bit of DOC's. The trick is going to be to increase the rate at which organics are being removed from the tank and get your phosphates lowered.

What the hell is GFO????? lol I am looking for a bigger skimmer as I bought the "crapclone" before I joined this site. The deal is I need a skimmer that I can HOB now and put in sump later when I get my 125gal finished. Gonna run another Phos test tonight.