Break time......

This is a good thread and I am learning a lot, thank you everyone.

Tiffany,No I have not done anything differant except change my skimmer. I dont think that my skimmer is working right. I have about 1" in the cup and it has been well over three weeks since I dumped it. I clean my power heads whenever I see HA on it. I ordered two things to ry and help One is aleafix and the other is some liquid phos. remover. Jim uses it and likes it. I dont feed very offen in fact I have not feed my tank I bet in 3 weeks. And the A is getting worse. I dont have enough salt to do a big WC I have about 10-15 gallons of mix left. It seems like when I pull it out by hand it gets worse about a week or so later. I have a rock in there now that last week it was fine and now all you can see is HA.
It is all just very fustrating.
Going to try this new stuff and see if it helps and if not I am going to tear it down and start over some time.

Home_Depot wrote:Tiffany,No I have not done anything differant except change my skimmer. I dont think that my skimmer is working right. I have about 1" in the cup and it has been well over three weeks since I dumped it. I clean my power heads whenever I see HA on it. I ordered two things to ry and help One is aleafix and the other is some liquid phos. remover. Jim uses it and likes it. I dont feed very offen in fact I have not feed my tank I bet in 3 weeks. And the A is getting worse. I dont have enough salt to do a big WC I have about 10-15 gallons of mix left. It seems like when I pull it out by hand it gets worse about a week or so later. I have a rock in there now that last week it was fine and now all you can see is HA.
It is all just very fustrating.
Going to try this new stuff and see if it helps and if not I am going to tear it down and start over some time.

What skimmer do you have now?
I get 2-3in skimmer crap a week. and i have a low end skimmer. I think right there is the start of you troubles.

Sounds like the skimmer is a good place to start. HD, if you need more salt mix before you're able to get some, you're welcome to some of mine.

I got a SWC 160 which is basicly the same as the extremes. Not sure what could be wrong with it

I might take you up on that Cammie Phil also has some I can get from him.

Garrett did you see Jim's post over on rrvr about the fix he did on the ventury. Have you checked impeller? Are you running the mesh mod? How much water is it sitting in? Have you made sure you don't have any obstructions in the skimmer anywhere, snail made jamed somwewhere? Sorry if these seem like stupid things you have checked for already, but maybe they might spark an idea that you haven't done.

Home Depot: Should Try the new stuff like Bio Pellet from some start up company in Europe they seem to have very positive feed back from users. You can try Hiatt system with I am using and have good success keeping the algae down and currently using it to clean up my algae problem tank. Send me a message when you are in Twin Cities... I will show you how I have it setup.

blennieluvr wrote:Sounds like the skimmer is a good place to start. HD, if you need more salt mix before you're able to get some, you're welcome to some of mine.

I bet the Cal/ALK/Mag/PH is off. In order for the skimmer to work well the water PH have to be basic enough to make good bubble go attract dirt and carbon in the water. Check you water parameter....

I get at least one cup per day of brown thick liquid from my skimmer.