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So I have been dosing my tank with Vibrant twice a week, for the last five weeks using the recommended dosage. Along with a five gallon water change every Friday The Vibrant was quick to clean up the Cyanobacteria and everything was moving in the correct direction. Than on Friday i did my...

Hockey / Diana, thanks for taking the time out to help with my problems. I have ordered some vibrant and am going to get some good live rock for my sump to help with my current situation.

Hockey, in the beginning I was dosing my tank with brightwell microbacteria 7. I stopped dosing my tank with bacteria at least three weeks ago because it fouled up my skimmer. My octo 110 is sensitive and I didn’t realize that it needs to be turned off for a day after dosing my tank with...

My tank is three months old and I just tested my nitrates and they are almost zero according to the test kit.

I dont have any test kits to check my levels. I’ve been going to a local fish store to test my water. In the past I’ve found that test kits are not always accurate/ reliable and I’m trying not to purchase anything I don’t need to.

I would like to think it’s Cyanobacteria but I’m not 100% sure. It looks like Cyanobacteria and I’ve done a good bit of research on it. Everything in my tank is healthy. I have six corals and six fish and a good size clean up crew: coral bandits shrimp, sally light foot crab, starfish, some...

I’ve been having a problem with Cyanobacteria for a couple weeks now. At first I bought a better cleanup crew: sally light foot crab, Hermit crabs and a star fish hoping they would help with the problem. After a week with now improvements I turned my lights off for three days and stopped...

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I have the AI 32 HD and love it. The app makes it very easy to use, it’s very quiet when fan is running and it works without any flaws. My only disappointment was when I originally received it. There is some sort of harness inside it that comes loose when being shipped and I had to take it...

Hockey, thanks for the input. I’m going g to try and clean the skimmer out with some vinegar. If this works, I will use the advice given to me about turning my skimmer off after I dose it with bacteria and what not. If the skimmer still gives me trouble than I will take the sump apart and...

Hockey, I can’t raise my skimmer anymore. My water line in the sump is about 11 inches deep and I have the skimmer on a five inch stand. This leaves me with about once inch of height to spare before the top of my stand. I do not have a reactor but I always run carbon in my filter sock. I just...

Marc, nothing has changed with the skimmer. It’s been like this for 17 days. Do you think I should take her out and give her a vinegar bath?

Marc C, I’m trying what you recommended. I will keep you posted. Thanks for the tip!

I’ve raised the water level up and down on the outlet and nothing seems to work. So I run it wide open right now just waiting for it to settle.

yes, the water line is at the bottom of the outlet.

I have a 65 gallon tank with a 29 gallon sump that’s about two months old. When I first got the tank put together I let the skimmer run and overflow for the first month. Than right around the four week point; the skimmer settled down and worked as it should. About a week later, when the...

Thanks for the info everyone. I’m going to start dozing some reef roids and will take it from there.

Quick question for everyone... What do you feed your LPS corals? I remember about 10 years ago I use to feed mine phytoplankton. i have my first shipment of corals coming in the mail today and I want to begin feeding them this week. I have a nice lobo brain, acans, zoas, hammer coral and a...

Do you do anything to keep the moving at all?

My tank is two months old and is doing fairly well. It is a 65 gallon gallon reef tank with a 29 gallon sump. I have 40 lbs of live rock and 60 lbs of live sand. In my tank I have 5 small fish, a flower anemone, small leather coral, a coral banded shrimp and a few snails. When my tank was...