Tank1: 125L Tropical. 1 male betta, 4 scissortail rasboras, 3 neon tetras, 4 glowlight danios, 1 candy stripe loach, 1 female bristlenose, 6 amano shrimp.Tank 2: 65L Nano reef. 6kg live rock, 96w T5 lighting, 3 x turbo snails, 5 x red-legged hermits, 1 x peppermint shrimp, 1 small pistol shrimp (hitch-hiker), two percula clowns, 1 neon goby, 1 sun coral, 1 clove coral & 1 tree coral
Hi Wayne i personally would be reluctant to take out the skimmer myself!
If i was you i would change the fluval filter for the koralia nano
Sounds like the skimmer is either set up wrong or you simply do not have anything worth taking out???? The skimmer should be taking out a Tea coloured smelly liquid - the darker the better?
As i have know personal experience with new style skimers i cannot advise on how to check/set up?
yes wayne in theory you can ditch the skimmer IF you are prepared to do weekly water changes. you could also run some purigen in the internal.
Hi i just had a crazy idea! If you have got a spare air pump? and a wooden air diffuser{air stone but made of wood - surprise surprise},if you put this in the tank for a short while say an hour or two -you could see if the bubbles were reluctant to 'burst' or not if they are reluctant to burst the skimmer isn't working? If they disperse quickly then skimmer is doing ok? This was how i could tell how my old air driven skimmers were doing
might be a bit of a silly idea, but why don't you just replace the fluval with a bigger internal? More water flow, and there's still some where to put the chem filtration.
good point nic.
or buy a bigger korallia.
Bigger Korallia sounds the easiest solution unless 1 is leaving dead spots. At least that way the rest can stay the same.
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Hi Wayne, where is your LFS, i would be interested in a couple of those Koralia 1's.
Matt
Wayne if you could get me two that would be marvelous mate as £22.99 is very cheap. only thing which concerns me is postage!
Could just bt you or pp you the money.
How much do you think postage is likely to be?
Thanks
Hi looking good Wayne,these new koralia pumps certainly do a good job! I was looking at them in my lfs the weekend and they are quite efficent little pumps
What is your turn over per hour now Wayne?