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yamahaguy06

yamahaguy06

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Feb 28, 2005
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HI all, you know when you look up at the water in you tank? mine is a little filmy, not a lot but you can tell when my power head keeps the surface moving the moving water is like pure clean, but there is a slight haze, maybe like dust?? not bubbles or anything like that. It has always been there realy, sometimes its there sometimes not. well besides that my tank is kikkin a$s, it's doing good just need some fish. I wish I had a better camra to take some pics with to. *PEACE!*

ok thanx
 

TLH

TLH

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Jun 27, 2005
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re;scummy surface:you can get protein skimmers for dealing with that or you can use a sheet of paper(may take some time)to lift it off,atleast I've read about it.
 

yamahaguy06

yamahaguy06

Large Fish
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Feb 28, 2005
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I have a Aqua C remora. And S. reef, I am stickin with it. I hope to go buy some fish this weekend. the tank is lookin good. although the intake for my powerhead(on the skimmer) its like 4 inches under the water level. does this matter?? the water surface is clean now.
k, bye...
 

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wayne

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It's better if it's higher - organics tend to accumulate near the surface, so you may as well pull your dirty water from there. You can buy a surface skimmer attachment for the Remora, or you can make one but beware , they can be a tricky to setup if your water level fluctuates a lot.
This is one easy way to make all skimmers work better. Skim the dirtiest water.

Noone can do the 'paper towel to remove surface film' trick!
 

RockingCricket

RockingCricket

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Jul 29, 2005
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wayne said:
Noone can do the 'paper towel to remove surface film' trick!
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I managed it to some degree to get the crap that not rinsing my sand resulted in. I didn't know it was a known method, I thought I had made it up. I used to use kitchen paper to take the film from the top of cold cups of english tea. *celebrate
 

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JustinP

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Jun 8, 2005
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If your skimmer has a pre-filter box or some other kind of surface skimmer attachment available get it. I made one for my HOB skimmer and I have a power head blowing a surface current toward it so that the skimmer can collect it better and I get a lot more skimmate now. I have a BakPak 2R by the way.
 

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JustinP

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Jun 8, 2005
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Well it's kind of hard to explain how I made it because I was looking around at a Meijer store one day for a plastic container that I could modify for this use. I found a plastic garden tool holder that was blue and matched my tank background. It has 2 compartments, one for the powerhead to fit in and a smaller one next to it for the output tube to sit in so everything is hidden. I cut off the handle and cut some slits around the top for water flow and slowly adjusted the width of them so they could handle a flow slightly greater than the Maxijet 1200 can pull in. I also drilled 2 holes in the back of it for suction cups. When I have a chance I will post some pics. I'm at work right now, working hard as you can see! :D
 

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