KC B
New Member
Hello Everyone.
I bought a used Red Sea Max 250 last week, and just finished setting it up. This thing was nasty from algae...you could barely see what was inside from all the green slime!! I ran 3 gallons of vinegar and tapwater through it for two days and everything cleaned up beautifully.
It came with:
I have a ton of questions, if you all don't mind helping.
Have a great day guys!!
I bought a used Red Sea Max 250 last week, and just finished setting it up. This thing was nasty from algae...you could barely see what was inside from all the green slime!! I ran 3 gallons of vinegar and tapwater through it for two days and everything cleaned up beautifully.
It came with:
- an apex jr with PH module
- chiller
- 2 next reef media reactors
- jaebo powerhead
- ato
- batter backup
- and a ton of test kits, chemicals, etc
I have a ton of questions, if you all don't mind helping.
- We're going tomorrow to buy sand and rock, should I buy live rock or buy dead rock and use Dr Tim's or something similar?
- I love the look of fine sand, but are there benefits to more course sand?
- I bought a media basket from InTank LLC for the chamber to the left of the skimmer, what should I run in here?
- I bought the accessory kit for the chiller from Red Sea, do I simply take the right side return pump to push the water to the chiller, and the chiller will return it to my tank via the right nozzle?
- Apex Jr temperature probe will not manually calibrate past 35.5 degrees, after I pass this number it goes back to 0, I verified I was on Farenheit instead of celsius.
- By buying an EB8 from Apex does that give my control of 8 more items, just like the 4 I can control now?
- Salt? IO or Red Sea?
Have a great day guys!!