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[00W]

Even when you had corals? I am always testing in my 90 gallon because I have corals. I don’t test my 20 gall because it only has fish and some kelp.

I'm glad you are testing. I think you need to and I'm glad you didn't give up in the beginning.
Softies is all I have and they're pretty tolerant creatures.
I'm glad you stuck with it and didn't let some of the stuff here bum you out!

 

[Reef Devils]

Nice to meet you as well, not sure what speed. The salinity is 1.024 I didn’t realize it had an adjustable speed.
Just just got all of this for a surprise Christmas present. I feel so stupid.
Thanks for the response boys. I’m still waiting on my coral guy to get my test kits in.
So I’ve just been dropping in to test.
Only had it up and running since dec 27th

No worries. Not stupid at all. We all have questions no matter how much we know! Keep it up and let’s us know if you got questions.

 

[carruthers79]

Nice to meet you as well, not sure what speed. The salinity is 1.024 I didn’t realize it had an adjustable speed.
Just just got all of this for a surprise Christmas present. I feel so stupid.
Thanks for the response boys. I’m still waiting on my coral guy to get my test kits in.
So I’ve just been dropping in to test.
Only had it up and running since dec 27th

lol I feel so out of tech, I’ve never been on a thred or anything like this so bare with me

 

[kevgib67]

I never tested in over 30 years until I became a member on here.
So much talk of testing I started to and now test weekly.
Was just wondering what your levels were.

PH 8.0, mg 1490, ca 435, Na 10, alk 8.1, phos .25 ( it has been at that level for the whole time, probably less but the color is closer than the lower number).

 

[carruthers79]

No worries. Not stupid at all. We all have questions no matter how much we know! Keep it up and let’s us know if you got questions.

Will do thanks

 

[00W]

Nice to meet you as well, not sure what speed. The salinity is 1.024 I didn’t realize it had an adjustable speed.
Just just got all of this for a surprise Christmas present. I feel so stupid.
Thanks for the response boys. I’m still waiting on my coral guy to get my test kits in.
So I’ve just been dropping in to test.
Only had it up and running since dec 27th

No problem.
The octopus regal 150s has a controller on it.
Send a picture of yours.

 

[00W]

lol I feel so out of tech, I’ve never been on a thred or anything like this so bare with me

That's what we're here for!

 

[Reef Devils]

I'm glad you are testing. I think you need to and I'm glad you didn't give up in the beginning.
Softies is all I have and they're pretty tolerant creatures.
I'm glad you stuck with it and didn't let some of the stuff here bum you out!

Yeah I am glad I got into the hobby. Things were not great at the start but I pushed through it and tank is looking amazing. I couldn’t have done it without the R2R community.

Here are some pics of the tank today.

 

[00W]

PH 8.0, mg 1490, ca 435, Na 10, alk 8.1, phos .25 ( it has been at that level for the whole time, probably less but the color is closer than the lower number).

Amazing.
Dose or just water changes?

 

[carruthers79]

No problem.
The octopus regal 150s has a controller on it.
Send a picture of yours.

 

[carruthers79]

Looks like mine is the 110

 

[00W]

Yeah I am glad I got into the hobby. Things were not great at the start but I pushed through it and tank is looking amazing. I couldn’t have done it without the R2R community.

Here are some pics of the tank today.

Dude!
Really come together bro so nice!
You gotta teach me now!

 

[Reef Devils]

Yeah tank looks new and it might need to be broken in. Try messing with the controller and see if that helps.

 

[00W]

OK good.
I ran the same model for years
Turn the gate valve the red one to the left until the water is right at the bottom of the neck.

 

[carruthers79]

Yeah I am glad I got into the hobby. Things were not great at the start but I pushed through it and tank is looking amazing. I couldn’t have done it without the R2R community.

Here are some pics of the tank today.

Wow that looks awesome

 

[00W]

Looks like mine is the 110

There's no controller on yours. You have an ac pump. It's always on.
Water level for that skimmer is right over the output.
Too high and it'll overflow.
Bubbles look great. Should be bigger at the top.
@Reef Devils is right. Tank is new and skimmer needs break in but run it anyways.

 

[carruthers79]

OK good.
I ran the same model for years
Turn the gate valve the red one to the left until the water is right at the bottom of the neck.

I turned it and it seemed to slow it down slightly. I’ll keep an eye and see if that changes thanks a bunch.

 

[00W]

Looks really good. Great action just turn the water level down.

 

[carruthers79]

There's no controller on yours. You have an ac pump. It's always on.
Water level for that skimmer is right over the output.
Too high and it'll overflow.
Bubbles look great. Should be bigger at the top.
@Reef Devils is right. Tank is new and skimmer needs break in but run it anyways.

 

[carruthers79]

Awesome thanks guys.