Modified My Skimmer

[ParrotFish]

So as a lot of you know, limpets and stomatellas readily breed/reproduce in my tank, which means lots of little snails crawling everywhere, especially in the sump. Unfortunately this also means snails going into my skimmer pumps and attempting to break it. I have a Reef Octopus SRO XP1000 Space Saver Protein Skimmer. The snails would go into the pump and get stuck in the needle wheel and die and cause me a headache as I would have to take the pump out and take it apart to clean the needle wheel. Yesterday I finally had it and fixed it. I tried to use super glue but it did not hold so I used 2 part epoxy to glue some plastic mesh over the air thing that goes onto the pump, and voila! No more snails in my skimmer pump!
 

[Crob5965]

nice, i'm having the same issue myself, might have something to do with the micro cuc I picked up at the last meeting, I have limpets and stomellas  everywhere, dont see too many of the brittle stars (at least nowhere near as much as you have) but they are definitely there.

[ParrotFish]

nice, i'm having the same issue myself, might have something to do with the micro cuc I picked up at the last meeting, I have limpets and stomellas  everywhere, dont see too many of the brittle stars (at least nowhere near as much as you have) but they are definitely there.

Interesting, brittles are total scavengers and will eat anything they can get their arms on. You have not seen any little arms coming out from the rocks/tight places?

[TrueTricia]

Squishie.... you don't happen to want to get rid of a few of those scavengers, do you?  I'd gladly take some brittles if you bring them to the meeting.  Just a few. 

[ParrotFish]

Squishie.... you don't happen to want to get rid of a few of those scavengers, do you?  I'd gladly take some brittles if you bring them to the meeting.  Just a few. 

I would if I felt right about it. With the hydroid situation I do not want to possibly spread them to anyone else and limpets and stomatellas need established tanks with live algae to feed on and cannot be put into quarantine to try and see if they bring in hydroids.

I do plan to save as many of the critters as I can with the rebuild and I hope they will continue to reproduce. Hopefully by late this year, early next year I will be able to sell these guys again. Sorry for the inconvenience.