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I gave my Dad my 30 gallon hexagon. It has a hang filter with a bio wheel for the filtration. I wanted him to get a canister, but the guy at fishland said this would be fine. 2 months later the water in this tank is totally green. I mean it looks like phytoplankton. I am thinking a skimmer would help get this out along with water changes. Will have to get a hang on skimmer, does anyone have any suggestions on which one we should get. Dont say prizm as I am throwing mine away, they suck (IMO). Thanks for your help.

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What else is in the tank?? What do you have in the bio-wheel filter?? How old is the tank?? More info needed...
 
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Haha I knew that was comming :)

I have one... it has its moments... sometimes it works great sometimes I hate it. If it has the strainer basket on it ill take it!
 
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Not much to be said, it has 2 rocks and a green chromis with some caluerpa. It is 2 months old. The filter is a normal filter you have on the back of most tanks with a spinning wheel. Im just going to get a crappy seaclone. No the prizm leaks and when it didnt leak it didnt work. It sucks.

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Eric, did the caluerpa go sexual?

The brand name of the filter would be nice, so we can see what shape it is, to see how to use it.

How much sand?

Only two rocks, sounds like it was filter poor. Need more rock.

Which O ring did we determined leaked?

I actually like the Prizm, but in truth get a Remona (sp?) skimmer, a good bit more than Prizm, but really good skimmers, haven't heard anything bad about them at all, and everyone says they work for these size tanks.

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Yea I think thats the key ...with some caluerpa... it probly went sexual and released all the green out of it. Thats the only thing i could think of to make the water that green.

Run some carbon and do some water changes so you dont stress the critters to much
 
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Is the culepra in the tank?? I wouldn't be surprised it it went sexual also. What are you using the culepra for?? IMO, I wouldn't think there is a need for it, unless it is in a refugium or is being fed to a veggie eater, of which the chromis aren't. HOB bio wheel filters are pretty good for a basic FO set-up, but you might either have a too small of one, or need to put fresh carbon in the sectioned portion of the filter.

How long do you leave the lights on?? What do you feed??
 
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I hate my Prizm too, mine hasn't worked right from day 1 and has spent the last 2 years in my garage.
It leaked air in through the adjustment valve and the pump eventually started leaking too.
 
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Thanks for the replies. We put the caluerpa in there just to cycle the tank. It is hooking in and growing now. I forgot to take the disk with the picture of my Dad's tank. I was going to post it on here so you can see it. It is funny- totally green. I mean rotifers would love it. I was going to get one of those 29.00 skimmers on e-bay just to see how they work or do you guys think maybe we should just take the caluerpa out and it will eventually not be green anymore? I dont know what happens when you guys say that it went sexual. Should I allow my children to view this? :lol:

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I would be weary of putting any algae in my reef. Could lead to issues if it takes off.

IF your looking for a good skimmer I went with Precision Marine. They are located in houston which makes shipping nice. I picked up their HOT-1 and use in Hang on back style in my sump. Once you get it dialed in it really pulls the gunk.

Unfortunately good skimmers cost $$$

I bet those folks who build their own are laughing away at how much we spend on plastic tubes with a pump and air line. :D
 
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don't caluerpa die when they go sexual? or is it just b'c there's a depletion in light, oxygen, etc when people say their macro died. thought i heard that before..
 
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If it is phytoplankton growing in the water, I'd put something in there that eats the phyto, like a buttload of baby brine shrimp. With good circulation in the tank, you'd have a very nice colony of brine shrimp that can grow to adulthood, gorging on phyto and making that chromis fat and happy!
 
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Remove the culepra if you are using it in a refuge or feeding it to a fish. The culepra going sexual would cause problems on some reef tanks, but FO should be fine.
 
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I like the way my culerpa looks in my display, but I don't exactly have the lighting over my predator tank for anything other than the few shrooms I have. It is also functional because of the abount of food I feed to them.
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Actually I wonder if rotifers would be better or would they multiply too quickly and contaminate the tank once there is no more food?

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Or sell the rotifers to me for the clownfish fry that we are about to have.
 
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