So I have been a bit lazy with the tank maintenance this summer so far. Yesterday I knocked out some things.
First, my skimmer pump has been working, but it would not reliably come back on after a power outage - required a hard restart with the button and sometimes even blowing into the air intake. The guys at CoralVue are awesome. Just a couple of emails and a new pump was on its way. Very impressed. I exchanged it out yesterday and on a hunch I lifted my skimmer to see if I could get it to produce more foam at a shallower depth. Boom! It was at about 9" before. Now I put two 2" salt lids under it and it sits at about 5" underwater. I am getting much more bubbles and foam production in the main body now. Expecting better skimmate production.
For about 6 weeks my WAV pumps have needed attention. And the tank is feeling it. The combination of the summer sun coming in and hitting the tank for a few hours in the morning along with reduced flow from the dirty (and one non-working) WAVs, I have a bit of a cyano outbreak - not on the sand, on the rocks and mostly on the bottom left (sunny) side of the tank.
I am right now cleaning up two of the WAV (using citric acid in one and acetic acid in the other jug) by letting them run in cleaning solution for half a day. When I take them out, I will brush them off, wipe them down, and put them back in. Never even have to remove them from the system or turn them off. When I take them out, they shut off, when I put them in the jug, they come back on! Love these things. I have one not working, but after inspection of the impeller, it looks like something got lodged down in there. I will retest after cleaning and reassembly.
I am again running without a filter sock. That was a shortlived return to them! Ugh, what a total PITA those things are. Also, without the turbulent drain action, the Triton dosing tubes for 3a and 3b where getting huge stalactites again.
This Tuesday we will be doing a live stream at Neptune Aquatics so I will be harvesting at least 5 gallons of macro to take to him. It is totally out of control now.
A number of the LPS I had to rescue from the display and put down in the sump did not make it. But a bunch of others are doing well. I still think ultimately I will have to pull those heniochus out of the tank. Ugh!
After the WAV cleanup, I will blow off all the rocks and stir the sand and call it a day/weekend for the tank maintenance.
In SLC next weekend so maybe the weekend after I will take on pulling the Abyzz for its first cleaning as well as find out what got stuck in my flow meter.
