Recent content by Sailorman

Why would you want that? It would just reduce your volume instead of increasing it.

I'm using six magnetic impeller pumps on my 72 g set up. I find that I must turn these pumps off three or four times a week for feeding the soft corals and for changing water. Am I doing damage to these pumps using them in this manner. I've heard they are designed to run continuously, so...

I have a clam that has about a dozen small (pea sized) white or grayish white scrapes or spots on its mantle. They look like scrapes but the clam has been in the same place for a couple of months now and has not been 'scraped' by anything. It's got plenty of light and I give it Phytoplankton...

My tank has been set up and running for about five months now and I have a fair number of calcium consuming inverts, so I monitor calcium and alk. pretty closely. While I find the calcium gets depleted regularly and with consistency, my alk. seems to always be at around 10 – 11 DKH and drop...

Can't I just keep the return pump running while I pull the Durso? Also on the slurping, do you mean enlarge the small hole at the top of the pipe? Someone else told me to make it an 1/8th of an inch.

Are these filters interchangable? I've got a Coralife 50 gpd unit and was wondering if I could use Kent or other filters...

Can I remove this pipe from the overflow while the return pump is on. I'm assuming water will continue to flow from the bulkhead at the bottom of the overflow into the sump but am not sure. I want to clean the pipe. I am also assuming that if I pull it out with the pump off, water will...

I'm sure its a Sedra and the skimmer could be an ASM which I don't think is made anymore. The pump looks like the 3500 but I could easily be wrong on that.