So... after a couple of months of poor quality skimming due to my pump failing, i finally picked up my new alpha cone 170. after waiting a month for it to arrive i was quite excited to get it. only to find out that they had changed their design and now only offered one pump port option instead of two. I emailed vertex aquaristik and they informed me that royal exclusive decided to do away with it. unfortunately the second port option was the one that would have worked best in my sump configuration.. OH WELL.. it seems to be working fine, i just need to change my sump a bit to make for easier access to the collection cup.
I also got a new tunze wavebox yesterday. I like it. Took a bit to get it set up, but it works very well.
Also had a couple of fatalities. My copperband butterfly decided to get himself stuck to one of koralias and one of my picasso clowns decided to go thru the overflow and take the ride to the sump and got stuck in the new red dragon pump on my skimmer. i was very disappointed when i found him there. i had assumed it would be a snail.
now i cant find one of my bengai cardinals, and they are always out in the open.
not to mention my powder brown is covered in ick.
Not sure what is going on, but it has turned into a bad day.
