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Ordered New Replacement Skimmer Pump - Eheim 1260
Called up EuroReef and ordered a new modified Eheim 1260 recirculating needle wheel pump for my RC-500 skimmer. Frustrating and annoyed that I have to keep tossing money into this skimmer, but the performance is amazing and the skimmer is totally worth it.
poor guppies
Another one of the guppies died today, they really do drop off with depressing regularity. Hopefully there isn’t anything that we’re doing wrong, water conditions seem normal, everybody else is fine it’s just the particular ones that has trouble.
just done it
Three buckets today.
I really hope those snails arrive soon, the dreaded algae is taking over again, and poor old sammy on his own just doesn’t have a big enough belly!
The bristlenose catfish who has no bristles on his nose (podger) should be eating it, and I think he is, but is just a baby so [...]
snails again
Well i’ve ordered
4 different snails will be arriving in the post sometime. I’m getting them delivered to work, now i don’t expect this to be a problem cos it’s accepted that we will get stuff sent there, but a box of water labelled “livestock” might be one of the more interesting things to turn [...]
Cleaned EuroReef RC500 Skimmer, now makes a horrible sound.
Cleaned the EuroReef RC500 skimmer and cleaned out the SP4 recirculation pumps. Upon putting everything back together it made a horrible noise. I couldn't solve the problem, I left one of the pumps turned off until I have time to drain the skimmer and open up the pumps again.