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I bought one of those hydor Rotating rotating attachments for the power head, in my sump frag section. It has a little turbine, that drive a gear system, that rotates the head to spread out flow. I thought it might be problematic, due to baby snails and such Jamming the mechanism. It was cheap...

I managed to get a reasonable picture. I will follow up in a few weeks it really colors up. It’s behind the monti that i added last week.

It’s very little, and as an acro, it going to take a little time to color up after albeit relocated. As soon as i get decent color up and polyp extension, I’ll get a picture or 2.

I added a small orange passion acro frag today. Been wanting one for a while. I am going to grow it out in my sump until it ready to frag, and then add a piece to the display tank.

So far, the green slimmer is shadowing the monti. The monti has not grown much more, since I started this conversation. The slimmer is now growing faster, both encrusting and branching. They will probably eventually get into one another.

It works well. Although a bit inconsistent, you never get rapid fluctuations. Day to day my alk is always within the margin of error of my test kit. Week to week, + or - .3 dkh at the most. The ph buffering is consistently 8.3. Prior to kalk, it was 7.9. That’s another bonus.

Flow and velocity are 2 different things. Flow is always the same. You put 500 gph in. You get 500 gph out. When it goes through baffles and gets dissipated, it looses velocity. The velocity is what causes the agitation. Not the flow. The coral just like water moving across them. They don’t care...

I just set my sump frag chamber up today. I put a monti frag in there to see how it does. I’m more of an acro man, but the monti is a little more forgiving to get it dialed in.

I know it’s more than carbon. I’ve used it. It’s good stuff. It’s arguably whether it’s worth the money or not, but it is good. No doubt.

I run cheap bulk filter pad. They have it on a big roll at my lfs. When it starts to break down, cut off a new piece. I use high grade activated carbon in a reactor. Brs carbon is the best I’ve found. Not a bad price either a specially if you buy a big container. Here is a pic of my filter pad...

Try catching it in filter floss and rinse it frequently in some tank water. Sometime I only use a half gallon or so to rinse it out real quick. If your having a problem high nutrients, do it frequently, like even several times a week whenever you have a minute. You don’t have to get them perfect...

I stumbled upon this method on my previous tank to starve out hair algae. It was successful. That tank was skimmer-less and overstocked as well. It was mainly just rinsing the filter pad, which is where the majority of that crud was exported from.

All sump: rinsed out the reactor, filter pad, and skimmer crud etc in that water. I don’t let anything in my tank touch fresh water. Everything get rises in water change water, except on the occasion when my pumps get vinegar baths. You never get 100% off when you rinse stuff. I believe you...

This is what I get out on a typical water change next to a clean bucket for comparison.

Cool. The light you have is known to grow sps very well. How is the flow?

Do you have any frags down there yet?

No. Cleaning corrected the problem. If the pump is not noisy, or intermittent, I would keep it in service. I tend to break them down and clean them periodically as a precaution.

I bought this about 3 weeks ago, as a bird of paradise. Since then, it has gotten quite bumpy. My other birds nest, that is in the background is quite smooth, and does not have the same characteristics. Might this be something else?

I haven’t seen mine in months. It might be hiding, or it croaked.