Hello,
I am trying to turn around my 150g that I bought in September of 2009. It was running before I got it and this is my first tank. When resetting up the tank, I did not rinse any sand or scrub any rock. Reused most of the water. It survived the 6 hour move minus 2 fish.
These are pictures of it before it bought it.
This is it after the move
And this is it as of today.
I got shipped out of town for work 3 days after moving the tank and just got back into town last week.
I left my dad the huge responsibility of maintaining it for me and with him being so busy, it did not happen.
I have been reading skimmer threads for a couple of months decided to buy one.
I bought a SM-100 Scrubber and installed last tuesday due to the fact that the MRC skimmer i was using was finicky to say the least.
It started growing slightly brown and i cleaned it 5 days after installing with a toothbrush (I now know not to) and this is a picture of it before I cleaned it yesterday.
GHA has started to detach from the LR and algae growth on the glass has slowed considerably.
More stuff has been coming out of rocks since skimmer was taken offline. Small starfish have been multiplying.
I am looking for advice on how much the skimmer will fix and if I should perform water changes to get nitrate levels down.