17G tank

[fishmonkey]

yeah, its kind of hit and mis with those guys. sometimes they will and sometimes they will not. it can be SO frustrating. i reccomend the pickling lime method mentioned before. its easier than going out to find the other stuff. you can et the pickling lime stuff at your grocery store most likely.

[nguyenma]

this is my new tank so far. has about imaybe 8 pounds of rock and xenia in it with a blue damsel. just wondering whast the brown stuff on the sand?? and i checked the water
ammonia 0
nitrate 0
nitrite 0
ph 8.2-8.4
i got a hangon filter. forgot what is it. will check when i get home. i got a heater and will be switching it outwith my stealth heater from my 14g tank when everything is out of there. i have a nano power head and aqualite. i dont know if i need anything else. any suggestion?

[nguyenma]

do i have to accumulate my fish from the 14g into the 17g?

[Zer0]

It's "acclimate" not accumulate . If the water properties of the 14G and 17G are exactly the same then no.. you do not have to acclimate them. However.. if the readings are off in the 17G even by one or two points.. acclimating them would be ideal for the overall health of your livestock.

Also, the brown stuff you see on the sand is diatoms. Their appearance is part of the whole "new tank" thing. They feed off of the silicates in your tank. So if you use RO water, they will eventually burn themselves out and will disappear. Some times it takes days, other times it takes weeks. For me it took a week total for them to be completely eradicated. However, if you are using regular tap water in your tank, and the tap water has silicates present.. then you won't ever get rid of them. They spread rapidly even off of minuscule amounts of silicates. And if you are using tap water.. diatoms are going to be the least of your problems down the road.. honestly.

[nguyenma]

sorry ahaha well the tanks param of the 14 and 17 are the same. but the salt level and the temp is a bit off on the 17 from the 14. so ill acclimate them ahah and i am using tap water i dont have ro water... its not cost effective for myself as i am a university student. so i got a tap water solution that i put in everytime i do water changes.