AquaTricia
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Hello everyone! I just realized that i posted this in the wrong forum, but i have absolutely no knowlege of this type of communications, so HELP!! If you know how i can transfer all this to the right forum, let me know. My tank is a 28g nano which will one day be a reef tank. Right now it is a 29g nano with 2" of aragonite live sand and I topped it off with CaribSea Figi Pink live sand. I have 16.9 lbs of live rock. I have 3 problems. Every time I touch the thing the sand or particles blow up and I have a white tank for a day or two. How do you aqua scape your rocks if you can't even see them? I'm going to add another LR tonight to complete what I want to do, but I can't really see inside. I also will get an underwater putty to connect them, if I can ever see the things. oh yeah, I wash out the sponge every day with tap water and let it dry while I put in another sponge.
My LFS keeps telling me not to get testing equipment, that I just need to bring a sample to her and she will test it for me. Sound right to you?
Last question (for now) is that the tank has been going for 9 days. It developed brown spots on all surfaces. I assume they are diatoms and that I needn't bother with them. Am I correct? They will go away on their own?
Thanks everybody for your help. I studied everything I could find for 3 months to prepare for this but I guess I'm not.
My LFS keeps telling me not to get testing equipment, that I just need to bring a sample to her and she will test it for me. Sound right to you?
Last question (for now) is that the tank has been going for 9 days. It developed brown spots on all surfaces. I assume they are diatoms and that I needn't bother with them. Am I correct? They will go away on their own?
Thanks everybody for your help. I studied everything I could find for 3 months to prepare for this but I guess I'm not.
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