thedude

Yeah the Aquamedic skimmers are a royal PITA to adjust. They also experienced some HUGE setbacks when their entire US inventory burned along with their warehouse in early January. They just know have been able to start shipping their products again. Let me know if you need the number or email for Aqua-medic and I'll see if I can find it.

John

All,

Recently, the new trend in high end SPS keeping is to utilize some type of probiotic filtration method. This originally was only accomplished through the Zeovit method (www.zeovit.com) but quite honestly, the technology behind doesn't make any sense to me, and there is way too good a chance of nuking your tank. Another factor is the hefty price tag.

I've come across two new companies marketing new products and wanted to let you all take a look at them as well. The first product is called Prodibio and all information and sales are going through www.robsreef.com . Marc Levenson (Melev) of DFWMAS is currently experimenting with this method and I'm very curious to see it's effects in his tank.

The second is called System Reef-resh and is distributed by a Canadian company at www.polyplab.com. They also have a high quality soft coral food that I should be receiving any day now. Check them out as I think they are quite possibly the next filter additive.

John

I've heard of airgas but have no idea where they are exactly. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

John

I understand where you're coming from as if this skimmer is similar to his bigger brother, the shorty, it's a real pain to adjust the water level. The instructions are sparse and the "adjustors" don't really adjust anything. The only thing I've found is to put a ball valve on the feed pump to limit water coming into the body, and actually take the "adjustors" out and look at them. They're fairly easy to see the theory behind how they work. Another option would be to talk to Aquamedic tech support as they're based in Denver and should be able to help you.

John

The only real problem I see with dripping anything into the fuge is because of the low current., things have a tendency to settle. You might get a settling of both calcium from the reactor and for sure any undissolved kalk. I've seen many people drip the effluent line into their skimmers input (to take care of any excess CO2) or their output to mix it into the water column. Kalk I usually drip into the overflow to get it to mix in the sump.

John

For all of you that have taken my advice and made the switch to Hydro Carbon II by Two Little Fishies, the results are obvious, but I thought I'd post a link to the test that backs up what I've been saying. Take your time and actually read it as it is very interesting. http://www.pets-warehouse.com/carbon.htm