Cycle finaly finished yay!!!!

[abrahamavelar]

also im getting some brownish looking thing on my sand is that bad????????????

 

[thincat]

Those are diatoms and are just another stage that you/we will have to work through. What kind of water did you use...Tap water or RO/DI water?

 

[InfernoST]

Also what are your Phosphate, nitrate and silicate levels?

 

[abrahamavelar]

idk about phosphate and silicate levels but everything is at 0 and ph was low at 7.8 but i added something that will raise it up and keep it to 8.3 so ill check that ,also my salinity went from 1.023 to 1.025 is that bad???? and i used tap but i added something that the lfs told me that makes it safe and gave it to me for free and ilso use the aquasafe so the chlorine wont affect the fish

 

[thincat]

Don't worry to much about your PH. In a new tank it will flucuate. 1.025 is a better SG. The treatment your LFS gave you does not remove TDS from your water. Things like hard metals & nitrates that over time can build up to toxic levels.

 

[melosu58]

If you are going to have a reef tank you will not be able to use tap and have a stable tank. Your LFS is just making a sale. There are many things in tap water that your magic potion can not take care of. Heavy metals, silicates that are causing your diatomes and all it`s doing to your ammonia is binding it up. It`s still there but you just cant read it any more. Maybe you are not doing a reef and then you`ll be OK but if you are do yourself a favor and get at least RO water and RO/DI would be prefered.

 

[abrahamavelar]

oh ok, where can i buy some of that water,or how do you make it, also i dont want too many corals i just want the few that i got maybe one more, this is what i have 3 Zoanthus sp. (Button polyps) each of them are really small the bigger one that with all the tentackles or how ever are called its about the siz of a quarter, also have 2 small anemones when i get home ill upload some pics

 

[melosu58]

The problem with the anenome`s is that they need a very mature tank. I would say about 9 months to a year old. They need the stability that a mature tank brings.

 

[abrahamavelar]

oh ok so what can i do about them cuz my friend that gave them to me moved thats why he gave them to me also because he got rid of his tank due that he wants a shark

 

[abrahamavelar]

phosphat and nitrate are 0 the other one idk the guy said its fine i kind of lost my test thing for the silicate and the guy at the lfs said it was good and i know this place its good because they always make sure i dont buy too much at once and my friend works there

 

[thincat]

See if your LFS can take them for credit. You can always get one later on.

 

[abrahamavelar]

they wont take them i tried already as soon as they gave them to me

 

[thincat]

Well, give it your best shot. Clean water and lots of light. Oh and lots of luck.

 

[abrahamavelar]

yea right now the levels seem fine my amo its 0 my nitrates are 0 and nitrites are 0 aswell and my phosphate is 0 and my ph is 8.1, they seem fine the only thing is that im getting alge right next to them and im planning on getting a goby thats wat the lf told me but idk if the anenome will eat him, this is a pic of the anemone while i was testing my lights