Erica-Renee
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Stop putting things off DO IT NOW!!!! could have been half done just in the time it took you to post tomorrow
Urgh seriously.
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Stop putting things off DO IT NOW!!!! could have been half done just in the time it took you to post tomorrow
Hush silly.
If you put it off 'till tomorrow you'll have something to plan for.
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In keeping with everyone's flavor choices, how about Cherry Garcia?
That's gotta go good with pickles and Cheetos.
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Erica-Renee
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Nope I care much not for cherry of the taste
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Sarah24!
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Hello,
Lol it’s hard to clean or do anything when I normally don’t have three days off. I actually went out and went grocery shopping, washed my car, lol played Pokémon go with my nephews and niece, oh and got rodi water lol and oh played at the play ground and went clothes shopping (that was so bloody boring and annoying), but finally found some jeans that actually fit lol, and not from the kids section. Yet, sadly still need a belt to hold them in place lol.
But I did buy 5 things of vinegar to clean everything with, sadly I will have to do all four wave makers and returns. The returns I’ll do one at a time on. So that will be started nice and early
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Lol it’s hard to clean or do anything when I normally don’t have three days off. I actually went out and went grocery shopping, washed my car, lol played Pokémon go with my nephews and niece, oh and got rodi water lol and oh played at the play ground and went clothes shopping (that was so bloody boring and annoying), but finally found some jeans that actually fit lol, and not from the kids section. Yet, sadly still need a belt to hold them in place lol.
But I did buy 5 things of vinegar to clean everything with, sadly I will have to do all four wave makers and returns. The returns I’ll do one at a time on. So that will be started nice and early
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Sigh, How about Cheetos, pickles and chocolate chip mint?
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Sarah24!
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So I have achieved success and stuck all four wave makers in my sink in vinegar. Wow so gross and nasty, time for a good cleaning to make them new again. I have installed the new gyre and wow that puts out some water flow. However, the Insteuctions on modes and how to change and adjust are seriously just bloody ridiculous. They make no sense with how the control unit actually works. Adjust them isn’t easy lol if you do to much they come off, and you actually have to move them with some force. I choose just straight flow but will kind point them down or will try to. But once my other pumps are clean and back in, I will have quite a bit more flow in my tank yay. But here are some pics of the new gyre and my nasty pumps.
So I have achieved success and stuck all four wave makers in my sink in vinegar. Wow so gross and nasty, time for a good cleaning to make them new again. I have installed the new gyre and wow that puts out some water flow. However, the Insteuctions on modes and how to change and adjust are seriously just bloody ridiculous. They make no sense with how the control unit actually works. Adjust them isn’t easy lol if you do to much they come off, and you actually have to move them with some force. I choose just straight flow but will kind point them down or will try to. But once my other pumps are clean and back in, I will have quite a bit more flow in my tank yay. But here are some pics of the new gyre and my nasty pumps.
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Sarah24!
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Well lol after five hours of soaking in hot vinegar all my wave makers look brand new with some elbow grease. Tomorrow I will soak the return pumps one at a time, as to keep he heat circulating in the tank. I may or am closer to the actual flow rate that I need for my tank. I still never seem to understand that. Hmmmm
Well lol after five hours of soaking in hot vinegar all my wave makers look brand new with some elbow grease. Tomorrow I will soak the return pumps one at a time, as to keep he heat circulating in the tank. I may or am closer to the actual flow rate that I need for my tank. I still never seem to understand that. Hmmmm
Erica-Renee
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I soaked in the tub for 2 hours when i got home from work today.. Yes The mean Evil Alien Witch Boss of mine made me work today.. She said its Labor DAY And i Must do double Labor .....
Good bye ....
Erica-Renee
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NY_Caveman
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Hello,
So I have achieved success and stuck all four wave makers in my sink in vinegar. Wow so gross and nasty, time for a good cleaning to make them new again. I have installed the new gyre and wow that puts out some water flow. However, the Insteuctions on modes and how to change and adjust are seriously just bloody ridiculous. They make no sense with how the control unit actually works. Adjust them isn’t easy lol if you do to much they come off, and you actually have to move them with some force. I choose just straight flow but will kind point them down or will try to. But once my other pumps are clean and back in, I will have quite a bit more flow in my tank yay. But here are some pics of the new gyre and my nasty pumps.
IceCap has some decent videos that explain the programming and there was one that showed what the modes did. May have been for the 3k gyre, but they are the same modes. Your controller looks exactly like the 1k that I have if you find videos on that. Any specific questions and I can probably help.
I used the constant mode to break it in when I first set the tank up. It was dead silent at 100%. Now I use the alternating gyre mode because I can control all of the parameters including the ramping times. I set the reverse to 0 and it operates as a dual forward pump.
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Sarah24!
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I think mine is on alternate as well and at 100%. When I stick my hands in both of them are blasting water at me lol. It is very silent and it moves some water, every time my fish swim in front of it lol it launches them across the tank. I have it mounted on the back glass to give more flow to the sps from the back side. I may get two more current pumps and place them on the bottom back corners pushing water to the front glass. It seems I always get small cyano outbreaks in the front corners or on the side but don’t know why. All parameters are on target, and I cut feeding down and I’m only doing fuel twice a week now. It seems the tank is having a midlife crisis, first the wild sps went south on me, and now I had nitrates at 5-10 and within one day they jumped to 30-40. I had to start dozing the no3x again to bring it back in range. Plus I am still doing water changes at least 40 gallons. I have found that my filter socks seem to well cause more problems than they are worth. I had no issues with nitrates before I used them, took them off and nitrates dropped. Had them at 5-10 ppm had the socks back on to clean the water and nitrates shot up to 30-40 from 5 within one day. Everything else was spot on, and no issues with my fish or corals but hoping I caught it fast enough. Hoping this additional flow will help, but I thought I had more than enough (2100 x 4= 8400 plus 3100 x 2 is 6200 gives me 14,600 in a 240 minus displacement so say 200
14,600 gph by 200 is 73, unless I’m doing it wrong). So adding 3,000 gives me 17,600 and my lfs says I need another 3-4000 gph just be minimum flow rate. Which that comes to almosr 23,600 gph in a 240 with 200 gallons displacement. If that’s correct wow I seriously really
Need to re work my flow rate my 425 because 8 of those 2100 won’t be enough at all.
NY_Caveman
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I think the back mounting is a good idea and if you put pumps as you said in the back bottom corners I would think that would help with the Cyano. 73x flow should be good for SPS. LFS seems to be recommending near 100x which I have seen, and would probably be fine, but I cannot think what you have now is too little IF there are no dead spots. I have never had a tank that large so I am no expert.
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Sarah24!
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Hello,
So was fun to return to work and I realized how fast three days off goes as compared to one day of work of 24 hours. I am so far liking this new wave maker and other than the instructions lol which I’m and thanks to @NY_Caveman will be watching videos. Well as soon as I umm figure out you tube lol and how to search on it.
I went and had lunch with my mum today and tried to add the new photo to my avatar, again lol it likes to cut my head off hmmmm. So I promised my mum I would show the pic because she said it was a good one, me I’m thinking nope but a promise is a promise.
Curious for a mixed reef in a 240 that has sps on top and lps and softies below how much flow should one have @saltyfilmfolks if you know or @Brew12 @Fin @Katrina71 lol umm role call I guess @ everyone.
So was fun to return to work and I realized how fast three days off goes as compared to one day of work of 24 hours. I am so far liking this new wave maker and other than the instructions lol which I’m and thanks to @NY_Caveman will be watching videos. Well as soon as I umm figure out you tube lol and how to search on it.
I went and had lunch with my mum today and tried to add the new photo to my avatar, again lol it likes to cut my head off hmmmm. So I promised my mum I would show the pic because she said it was a good one, me I’m thinking nope but a promise is a promise.
Curious for a mixed reef in a 240 that has sps on top and lps and softies below how much flow should one have @saltyfilmfolks if you know or @Brew12 @Fin @Katrina71 lol umm role call I guess @ everyone.
Your mom is right.Hello,
So was fun to return to work and I realized how fast three days off goes as compared to one day of work of 24 hours. I am so far liking this new wave maker and other than the instructions lol which I’m and thanks to @NY_Caveman will be watching videos. Well as soon as I umm figure out you tube lol and how to search on it.
I went and had lunch with my mum today and tried to add the new photo to my avatar, again lol it likes to cut my head off hmmmm. So I promised my mum I would show the pic because she said it was a good one, me I’m thinking nope but a promise is a promise.
Curious for a mixed reef in a 240 that has sps on top and lps and softies below how much flow should one have @saltyfilmfolks if you know or @Brew12 @Fin @Katrina71 lol umm role call I guess @ everyone.
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Isn't she usually?
Beautiful pic!
