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yup sounds like a plan!! And exactly the way I run mine with the carbon in there too – hahaha

Sadly, no. This is part of my overall algae fighting effort. I wouldn’t believe the test because I’d think the presents of algae in my tank might skew it. I’m hoping this helps stop the spread of the […]

nice!! did you test your phosphates before hooking it up to see what the impact will be??

Hooked up last night!

I actually had to dial back the pump a tad even. just to make the gfo not move too much. Thanks for the advice!

i added rock, and it cleared up

Yeah I was too impatient and used filter floss nonstop.  Just cheap pillow polyester filling from a craft store.

I’d just give it time if you have it – all that stuff floating in the water is stuff you want to filter out anyhow, so its time to break in your filtration system!!

You can add unflavored seltzer water […]

No corals, or fish in the tank yet, just saltwater , sand and rock. Our skimmer is running, and 2 power heads. The sump is not set up yet.

Is there any corals or fish in the tank?

If you used sugarsized sand it can take up to a week for it all to settle. What I did was use a hang on back filter and fill it with filter floss and change that […]

Ok, sounds good!

I’d wait until you start seeing some good growth on the few you have (which shouldnt take long, all those corals are fast growers!!)

Once those are actually growing – id take that as a hint everything is AOK

I’d think so ………… I ran a MJ on mine for quite a while – you just want the water to trickle out the output of the reactor.. Too much flow lets the GFO grind up, which is no good, you get orange rust all […]

Right now I have a 90 gallon tank with a 50 gallon sump refugium. I built my stand a 1/2 inch wider to do this size sump. I have a reef octopus nwb 150 skimmer , mag 12 return pump , heater , hamalton dule 250 […]

Thanks I’ll check thoes out

David!!

Tell us more about your tank – what equipment do you have? Do you want to have?? what you will want to really think hard about is future functionality as your tank grows…. will that controller be […]

I have the reef angel and love it. It’s open source, so you can code it to do pretty much whatever you want it to do.  In addition, they have a great forum with quick turn around on coding help and general […]