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ok, might try, anyway going to hide the sump with a piece of alcrylic. am just afraid that epoxy and silicone cannot dry underwater

realised that i forgot to place a piece of glass between the 2nd and 3rd compartment to keep the height of water stable so water level keeps getting lower in the second compartment and skimmer not able to operate well. what should i do?

new scape

today tested my nitrite again, and the results was......zero? my tank only 10 days cycle, but why nitrite drop so fast? or is it because i transfered my previous tank media to my new tank? please advice

finished building a platform for my skimmer. microbubbles has really decreased significantly. thanks, bro kaykay

anyone know where to get mangroves? cause i want to plant them in my ios.

ok, thanks, have made adjustments already.

what about the water level outside the skimmer?

put in np biopellets into my tank yesterday into my diy fluidised reactor(just a mineral water bottle with a pump), today my tank become very cloudy. any idea on how to resolve this problem? put in only abt 100ml.

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so stick the mat on the glass? can let it stick naturally on glass?

thanks for your advice,bro kaykay, may i know what is the height of water in your skimmer compartment? because mine is quite low, ard 6inch, but max is 10inch. am dosing the tablet type aquapharm bacteria. for live rock i washed all my previous liverock so that all the pest will die off as my previous tank had alot of problems with bristleworms and bobbitworms. maybe ard 6kg. will add more today

wow! btw i thought anemones will fight against each other when placed close together?

anyone who used bm nac3+ can advice on the breaking in period of this skimmer? this is the 5th day of usage and still not getting black skimmate and skimmer still releasing microbubbles

gsp mat?

any advice on how to stick GSP on wall? cause i want to hide the ios with it.

also interested to know. plan to plant them in my ios. is it possible?

planning to add liverocks along so as to not let my tank look so bare as i should be stocking up pretty slowly on corals. as for the mandarin fishes, would reconsider abt it.

yesterday tested nitrite found that it was 0.2ppm and tank from sump is 16''.

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ammonia=not tested as no test kit, but by right it is suppose to go down and by now nitrite should go quite high right? or maybe is because i transfered all the filter media from my old tank to my new one. other questions: is 800l per hour enough for my return? and is sandbed a must if i want to keep mandarin fishes? do not want to add sandbed as i suspect it is the sandbed that was the cause of the algae attack in my old tank. if it is a must then i will not have mandarin fishes.

ok, would like to ask a few questions... 1) how come i cycle my tank for 4 days aready no2 still 0? threw in 4 0.5 cm cubes of henry reef gourmet, need to add more? 2)is it safe to add in henry goodbye po4 remover now? 3)should i change the filter floss because it is really dirty but i am suppose to have organics and dirt during cycling right? thanks in advance

decommed my old tank due to hair algae outbreak, diatom attack, coral death etc. hope to achieve a better result this time. tank is a 2 by 1.5 by 1.5 ft tank. ios design was illegally taken form bro Kaykay (hope he don't mind). just found his tank very appealing.transfered everything from my old tank to my new one except my jireh quick start and red sea prism. skimmer was changed to bm nac3+.

ya, mine just bought today... much better than my previous skimmer too. I guess that this just shows that research is very important in this hobby.

ok changed socket and now the skimmer is working... any advise on the flow rate of bm nac3+? as in the one on the return... also having problems with microbubbles now... any advise