Cat's RSM 250
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catran
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No, I'm running the stock skimmer with no sump.
Now you got it ! The gate in the Display Tank that slides up & down, is critical to the water level to high or to low & the stock skimmer will over skim or under skim... play with it and I bet it will help ! 
catran
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Yeah, I get it now. The only thing is, it's frozen and won't move. I should have removed the coralline from it but I never realized that it had a moving part. Lol, I guess the best I can hope for is that it works itself out. I think it might help when I get the other pump in... My pump outlet on the Eheim and the pipe size of the outlet nozzle are different sizes. I'm going to Lowes to see if I can get a straight reducing connector today.
In the meantime, I tuned the light on to check the gate and there are still microbubbles, but much less. I bet it will slow to nothing. Hopefully, you're right and it just needs to be broken in.
In the meantime, I tuned the light on to check the gate and there are still microbubbles, but much less. I bet it will slow to nothing. Hopefully, you're right and it just needs to be broken in.
In your pic of the tank it looks like the gate is all the way down, if you can't raise it, you'll have to keep the water level stable with top off. You might try tapping on the gate with a piece of PVC or something...it might loosen up the coraline. If it's all the way down and won't budge...I would try making an "S" shape out of PVC so you can hook the bottom part of the "S" onto the gate and tap the top part of the "S" up and try and loosen it that way. That way you wouldn't have to drain the tank. If you add an overflow and sump, the gate can be all the way down, but without it, I think you're going to want to be able to adjust it.
catran
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Yeah, I'm going to try tonight. In the meantime, I had some zoas on a frag rack in the 130 getting stung like crazy by Marley my Nem. I put them in the 250 since I had no room elsewhere, figuring they wouldn't make it anyway:
I'm not sure I like the blue. This will definitely make it hard to get nice pics with my iPhone.
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I'm not sure I like the blue. This will definitely make it hard to get nice pics with my iPhone.
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catran
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Ugh! I just want to get the frag tank move over with... I kinda put it on hold to get the new RSM going and I'm having problems with that, lol! Then, I got Marley...
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catran
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Thanks Steve! I see your zoas are really doing great!
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Thanks Matt, yes it IS an obsession. I'm driving 5 hours Saturday just to see if I can get a good deal on some nice zoas!
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catran
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Um...the Monti isn't doing so well. I lowered it to see if it would do better...
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