Recent content by sundance2011

I think I have plenty of light, I have two of the FugeRay LED lights I got from eBay and it's as bright or brighter than the tank. I'll add a power head and get the flow up. No problem rinsing the saltwater Chaeto in freshwater tap water? Thanks

I am having a Algae problem in my 80G saltwater tank. I purchased a Refugium and have live rock rubble and CHAETOMORPHA in it to help with the Algae problem. It's been going for about 2 weeks now and I am seeing brown algae on the sides but it is also growing on the Chaetomorpha. Will this kill...

Cleaned the impeller and impeller cavity, was no help. UV light is built into the reaction 4 filter but would guess it's the same, I should see something so it must be burned out.

Have two questions. First the impeller seems to be just going back and forth, not spinning. Is that a problem with the impeller or the works in the head? The UV lamp, does it emit any visible light and if not how do you tell if it's on and not burned out? Thanks

How often and what is involved, just vacuuming the stuff off the bottom or what?

Sounds good to me ...bare bottom it is.

The aquafuge as far as I know has no space for floss or carbon and if you want to stimulate pod production don't you need sand or mud ..Just asking, I don't know.

I just purchased a aquafuge for my 80G tank. Do I need to buy mud for it or is just live sand good enough?

What do I need to consider when buying a pump for my sump? My aquarium is 80G and the sump is 20G What size pump should I get? Would the Eheim EH1048 (158 GPH) I already have be OK?

Not right away, don't know when.

So since algae need light to grow and the old ones are the problem it would be better to turn them off (zero light) till I get LED's

The lights are HO 48" flo. lights and they are old. Don't know if they are T5 or not. Don't want to buy new ones as I want to get LED if I can get the algae issue behind me. Just starting to build up the cleaning crew. right now about 100 Nassarius, 4 turbo and 1 Emerald crab. Not opposed to...

OK this sounds interesting, maybe i'll stick with it just a little longer and give this a try.

This Algae has beat me, this is no fun any more. Over the course of the past 4 to 6 months I have completely taken down and emptied the aquarium, scrubbed it with bleach to hopefully kill all the algae (unsuccessfully it appears). Filled it back up with RO water and new sand, seasoned it for a...

Right now two 48" HO flow lights (about 5 hours a day, just cut back for 8 or so), no MH.