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SIX YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THIS THREAD!!!! (yesterday) WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!

Ran the skimmer overnight, made some skimmate. Readjusted it today, now it's kicking out a beautiful custard-yellow, foam collapsing into delicious (looking) cider colored skimmate. Still leaking. Some of the leakage now is coming from pipe joints, which I will need to disassemble and re-tape...

Leaking is less today, I've been shutting it off at night so I don't wake up to any surprises, that may cause salt to harden in the joints. In the meantime, I've been getting my old MRC-2 skimmer ready as a stopgap. Still no real foam production, probably since it's in break in. I think I'm...

I ran the vortechs the whole time, figured that was equivalent. No other fish was stressed, although I have some pretty tough fish!

Well the new skimmer is finally running. I 'm having the usual new skimmer problems with it, but it has one really bad issue and that is the skimmer box is leaking from one of the seams. I'm hoping it stops on its own but if it won't, I'll have to pull it out and reglue the seam. I have sprayed...

The ChemiClean process was helpful. Here's how it went. I shut down skimming for 48 hours and removed carbon. I added the entire package of powder (said it treats 300G, my system's around 240, figured close enough.) The tank got somewhat cloudy, but the fish did not seem stressed. Something...

Actually, now that I think of it, that wasn't a little dinosaur, it WAS Shirley MacLaine, when she was younger. I hired her, those out of work actresses will do anything to get by!

My first fish tank was just a depression carved into a rock and my first fish was a trilobite. The air pump was a little dinosaur that blew into a tube.

Back from a week away. Stopped the skimmer to run ChemiClean to treat my massive coating of dinoflagellates and hair algae. Nobody knows what the stuff is but it might be erythromycin. It seems to have killed a lot of the dinos, their bubbles are gone and the water got pretty cloudy. All fish...

Bought some test hermit crbs which I am going to watch to see if they die. The guys at SeaLevel aquarium recommended ChemiClean for my HA/dinos issue, so what the hell, I'll give it a go. Should at least hurt the dinos, since it's meant for red slime. Bought a little naso tang a couple of days...

Back from a long train ride and visit to the West Coast, and finally plumbing in the skimmer. Of course, the way I work, it's got to take 5 days and 6 trips to HD. Much head scratching until I remembered the 1" Spaflex I had on hand, and discovered a 1" gate valve I must have bought ages ago for...

Thanx Bax.

There's a couple of 90° bends sitting in the skimmer base. I assume those go on the Beckett outflows...

Thanks Bax. I got the gate valve yesterday so it should all be working in short order. Where do those curved pipes in the box go? :-)

Lots of fun!

I had fun.

Thanks Bax, but I need to wait for a new gate from Savko as the gate on the ETSS is all but shot. Questions: 1) What model is it? 2) what is the closed up port between the two Beckett pipes? The yellow recirculating pump got a little wet during Sandy, there was a flood. I'm hoping it works but...

Yeah, I have an MRC 2, used it for a while on my 90, too much skimmer for that tank! This new one is a huge recirculating dual-beckett thing, should be fun. Used to belong to Bax. I love the ETSS 1000 I run now, but it's hard to get it dialed in to even skimmate production. It will cruise along...

Rockaway NJ just off Route 80.

Beat down the hair algae with hydrogen peroxide, looking better. Also removed a bunch of the worst rocks from the tank and put them in the cooking barrel in the garage. Took out a good amount of cooked rocks (squeaky clean!) from the barrel. Also changed the water in the barrel! I'm going to...