hey chicago reefers...

migg420

migg420

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Hey what's up ladies and gents... Migg420 here, new to the forum.wanted to introduce myself. I'm new to the saltwater hobby. Had a 46 gallon bowfront fresh water that I converted into a saltwater. On my 46g tank I'm only running a 75gallon rated wet dry filter. Two aquacon powerheads. Ehiem 150watts heater. I just recently upgraded to a 92 gallon corner reef ready tank. In there I have the proflex model 3 a Rio 3100 return pump. Mp40 vortech powerhead. Reef octopus sss1000 skimmer. ( that I'm having trouble adjusting the valve and keeping the bubbles from producing the skimmate. And have an Aqua illumination led light with controller. I just started cycliing the tank and used the LR that I had in by 46g bowfront so I have about 70 lbs of live rock and plan on adding 25 more lbs with some purple coraline from Dr. Foster site the reef ready rock they have on there. So bare with as I myself have made big mistakes and trying to learn from them. I'm eventually going to use my 46g as my QT tank. And plan on adding a hob skimmer. I've had my 46g for roughly about 5 months now. Doing biweekly 10% water changes. And just recently started having a red slime issue and have been syphin it out of the sand and rock. I have 3 green chromis. One false per. Two blue eyed cardinal. And plan on getting a blue, and yellow tang. As well as a couple of anthias. So thank everyone who reads this and any advice would be greatly appreciated and criticism constructive of course also very appreciated. Thanks for reading....
 
Thank you everyone for making me feel at home with this forum. And most of for welcoming me here as well.
As soon as I figure out how to upload pics on here I will. And yes eventually I plan on adding some corals to make the rocks pop out... Something hardy for the time being. I forgot to mention and looking for some advice, I have a spectrapure RODI unit that I hook up outside and make my own water. A couple things, first the ratio on the ro water vs the waste water is way off. I read that the ratio should be 4-1 waste water vs ro water... But mine seems to be more like 10-1.. I heard of the temperature of the water should be around 70d and also of a booster pump for the rodi system. Again its a spectrapure it has 3 chambers on the bottom and two membranes on top before the ro water comes out. And when do I know the filters need to be changed? Again thank you so much for the warm welcome and can't wait to start learning more about this hobby... I'm hooked.....
 
To post pics, the majority of us use photobucket.com to upload the photo to, and then copy and paste the img code onto the site here.
Does your ro unit have a restrictor valve or something on it? And I thought ro units were supposed to be ran using cold water, 70 degrees seem to warm, but I could be wrong. Did you purchase the unit new with new filters, or was it used already? Usually the best way to tell when the filters need changing is when the tds levels start to rise.
 
I bought it brand new from premium aquatics. So it came with the tds meter and filters in it.. Im in the process of replacing the filters and getting new membrane filters. I shut it down for the winter. So have to replace them. I read a buster pump for the rodi works. Im gonna try install it under my kitchen sink and see if I can run the blue rodi water tube into my sump.. right now I get my ro water from the fish store. Thank you for the input. Im in the next town ove in burbank. Usually do all my shopping at aquatica. Would love to hear of other places to check out if u have any you could recommend thanks
 
Thanks BB, im just trying to be like the rest of you guys and gals on here. I cant wait to see all my corals and colors explode......
 
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