Funkateer_1 Posted February 16, 2014 Author Share Posted February 16, 2014 Noticed some bubble algae and aiptasia on the right hand of my rock.... so instead of killing it, I pulled the rock out. Under that rock I found a little more. And under that rock a little more.... 10 minutes later.... Link to comment
Dramad1 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Awe man, bummer. I have one lil baby aiptasia right now, I tried to hit it with boiling water but it came back. I bought a peppermint and my cleaner ate it. Im thinking of lemon juice nxt and maybe investing in a aptasia wand. A guy over on sdr has a bunch of berghia nudis for sale. Could be worth the trip. He said he pulled like 20 out of his tank today. Hope you dont rip it all out. Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 16, 2014 Author Share Posted February 16, 2014 I wanted to take the rock out for awhile now. I've been wanting to slowly phase out my real reef rock for natural rock so this was a project I was planning to do anyways. Berghias would be harlequin tusk food. I've carried them at the shop in the past and they don't do squat IMO. Link to comment
Dramad1 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Oh....have you every used a wand before? I want one just to have for easy removal if it ever pops up, but I've never heard of anyone using one on the forums. Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 16, 2014 Author Share Posted February 16, 2014 Wands work great. I used to have one. I've used them on everything from Aiptasia to mojanos, palys, brisitle worms, you name it! Link to comment
Dramad1 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Im getting one! So what are you planning to do now? Where you able to get it all out by removing the rock? Did you have any corals attached to those pieces of rock that you removed? Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 16, 2014 Author Share Posted February 16, 2014 Im getting one! So what are you planning to do now? Where you able to get it all out by removing the rock? Did you have any corals attached to those pieces of rock that you removed? Im going to place a few smaller pieces of tongan rock in there. The corals that were on the rock I got off with a hammer and screwdriver. It was mostly montis. Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 16, 2014 Author Share Posted February 16, 2014 Just checked PO4 on the tank... hanna ppm calorometer, lot 50: 1st test 1.23, second test .13 . Checked it against salifert I got >.03. I just dont know what to believe anymore lol New rock for the right side. Its soaking in saltwater and zeobak with an airstone. Im contiplating just throwing it in Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 Well this is as far as I got before running out of free samples of coral glue. I need a drink. Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 Just loaded up on some epoxy and ecotech glue. Ran down to the scripps pier and got a bunch of filtered seawater (Scripps Institue of Oceanography offers free filtered water to San Diego locals. It's the same water that they use in their facility) and im gonna keep flushing the tank to minimize a cycle. Ill post pictures when everythings all mounted up. Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 Dust has settled and I got a majority of the coral mounted and squared away. Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 25, 2014 Author Share Posted February 25, 2014 8 weeks of waiting, it went through 3 countries to get here.... BUT ITS FINALLY MINE. KZ Revolution S Deluxe Skimmer. Link to comment
RollaJase Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 That is one funky looking skimmer, is that neon orange acrylic or yellow? Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 That is one funky looking skimmer, is that neon orange acrylic or yellow? It's orange. Its a KZ Revolution.... rated for 300 gallons. It 'pushes' the air in after the pump impeller instead of bashing it through a needlewheel through suction. After a few hours of running it's starting to rip!!! I've worked with countless skimmers, I can only describe the foam as thick, kind of like old school downdraft/beckett skimmer. Link to comment
NanoTopia Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 In a months time I would like to know if this skimmer has made any difference on your corals and tank in general. I am interested if these skimmers really do what they say, leave the good stuff in the tank and take the bad stuff out. It looks mighty sharp in your sump Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 In a months time I would like to know if this skimmer has made any difference on your corals and tank in general. I am interested if these skimmers really do what they say, leave the good stuff in the tank and take the bad stuff out. It looks mighty sharp in your sump I hope so. It took a lot of work getting these units in the US. So far i'm impressed. Using a venturi makes huge, dense bubbles and the skimmate is definently lighter, smells different too. I work with a large venturi skimmer (RK2, rated for 20,000+ gallons) at work and i've always been blown away by it's reliability. That monster always pulls a lot out, and its over 20 years old. Only time will tell if it was worth the investment. I needed a bigger skimmer anyway for my future upgrade ;D Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 Photo of the day! Very rare Plesiops coeruleonlineatus venturing out for some LRS food. Water is a little murky because I just coral snowed Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 In a months time I would like to know if this skimmer has made any difference on your corals and tank in general. I am interested if these skimmers really do what they say, leave the good stuff in the tank and take the bad stuff out. It looks mighty sharp in your sump Is that what KZ is claiming, that it works differently from other skimmers in what it removes from the water? Link to comment
NanoTopia Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Is that what KZ is claiming, that it works differently from other skimmers in what it removes from the water? KZ says this about their skimmer "The very natural and gentle skimming adds the air with a spacious nozzle which is very effective but nevertheless gentle. Thus the water is not chopped like by a needle wheel, so there are no elements precipitated and plankton is saved." http://www.korallen-zucht.de/en/shop/products--technology/skimmers/3304_revolution-s-deluxe.html Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 KZ says this about their skimmer "The very natural and gentle skimming adds the air with a spacious nozzle which is very effective but nevertheless gentle. Thus the water is not chopped like by a needle wheel, so there are no elements precipitated and plankton is saved." http://www.korallen-zucht.de/en/shop/products--technology/skimmers/3304_revolution-s-deluxe.html It can't work the way they claim, 'no elements precipitated and plankton is saved.' It's just how foam fractionation works, all skimmers do the exact same job, the only variations would be their design and their efficiency. The only way that KZ could get their skimmer to do a different job is if it were doing something other than foam fractionation. Link to comment
NanoTopia Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 It can't work the way they claim, 'no elements precipitated and plankton is saved.' It's just how foam fractionation works, all skimmers do the exact same job, the only variations would be their design and their efficiency. The only way that KZ could get their skimmer to do a different job is if it were doing something other than foam fractionation. I think the lack of a needle wheel is the difference here. I wait for Funkateer's report based on first hand experience with the skimmer. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I think the lack of a needle wheel is the difference here. I wait for Funkateer's report based on first hand experience with the skimmer. Needlewheel, Beckett, venturi, etc, all will (and all have done so in the past, these designs are not new) remove suspended solids from the water, which does include plankton. If skimmers hadn't been in use in just about every design and form for many years now, it would be worth examining, but since that isn't the case, their claim can be dismissed as false. Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 Needlewheel, Beckett, venturi, etc, all will (and all have done so in the past, these designs are not new) remove suspended solids from the water, which does include plankton. If skimmers hadn't been in use in just about every design and form for many years now, it would be worth examining, but since that isn't the case, their claim can be dismissed as false. The idea of a needlewheel is that it sucks the air and in chops the water up with a very fine impeller, thus turning the water into very fine bubbles. The current idea of skimming is to oversize, allowing the skimmer to suck in as much air as possible and remove every speck of dissolved matter passing through them. When running a Zeovit system, nutrients are kept pretty much undetecable via a zeolite reactor. As a result SPS do not require much zoozanthelle in their skeletons, causing them to grow quickly but have very pale/light coloration. Us Zeovit users utilize trace element supplements to tweak the coloration to their preferences (Pohl's Xtra, B-Balance, Zeospur, PIF, etc.). If you use aggressive, over-sized skimmers with this methodology, these expensive products get sucked out very quickly and corals cannot assimilate them as well as they could. Many zeo users who do use needle-wheels shut their skimmers off for a few hours after dosing. Theirs no doubt a venturi skimmer is much more gentle at skimming than bashing water through a needlewheel. You can tell just by looking at how the preform. Many large systems employ only venturi skimming, because it's the only way to manage that much water in an efficient manner. I have worked very closely with Valley View Casino (they were on an episode of that wonderful TV show, Tanked) and we installed custom Aqua-C skimmers and it made a huge difference in water clarity. The 4,000 gallon fish system where I work could not function without venturi skimming. Many users who have had mediocre experiences with Zeovit have noticed night and day improvement fairly quickly when switching over to non-needlewheel skimmer. I have already noticed much better PE on many of my SPS during the day. I do not have to shut my skimmer off to dose either. KZ has invented the cone based venturi skimmer that i'm aware of. I for one think it can make a huge difference. Needle wheel skimmers work great on mixed reef tanks, where complicated trace element additions are not as critical. Plus my skimmer is orange, therefore your argument is invalid Link to comment
Funkateer_1 Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Happy water change day!!! Link to comment
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