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Reefing newb
Hello Everyone,
First of all, this is a great forum. I've lost myself in your archives a few times over the past couple weeks...really a spectacular community. Anyway, I'm early in the process of cycling (day 3) my first marine reef tank and had a couple of questions:
1. I'm seeing temperature swings from 75 degrees (morning) to 79 degrees (evening), and I'm getting ready to add a second Hydor Koralia Nano powerhead which I'm afraid will push this temperature even higher. I'm using the Coralife Lunar Strip lights with a glass aquarium cover which the instructions explicitly say to use. Can I safely remove the glass cover to help with evaporative cooling?
(I just added the first Koralia today so it may just be that my base temperature increased, and that the swing range will be smaller but we'll see)
2. I've got the SeaClone 100 protein skimmer (it was recommended on the Foster & Smith site) but it seems to essentially be doing nothing. In order to keep large air bubbles from forming in the J tube I have to turn the air intake down very low, and its creating a cyclone and bubbles in the chamber but no foam. Is it possible there just isn't really anything in the tank to skim yet? or is the SeaClone simply that awful?
Thanks in advance, and hopefully I'll be able to give back to the community soon :-)
First of all, this is a great forum. I've lost myself in your archives a few times over the past couple weeks...really a spectacular community. Anyway, I'm early in the process of cycling (day 3) my first marine reef tank and had a couple of questions:
1. I'm seeing temperature swings from 75 degrees (morning) to 79 degrees (evening), and I'm getting ready to add a second Hydor Koralia Nano powerhead which I'm afraid will push this temperature even higher. I'm using the Coralife Lunar Strip lights with a glass aquarium cover which the instructions explicitly say to use. Can I safely remove the glass cover to help with evaporative cooling?
(I just added the first Koralia today so it may just be that my base temperature increased, and that the swing range will be smaller but we'll see)
2. I've got the SeaClone 100 protein skimmer (it was recommended on the Foster & Smith site) but it seems to essentially be doing nothing. In order to keep large air bubbles from forming in the J tube I have to turn the air intake down very low, and its creating a cyclone and bubbles in the chamber but no foam. Is it possible there just isn't really anything in the tank to skim yet? or is the SeaClone simply that awful?
Thanks in advance, and hopefully I'll be able to give back to the community soon :-)