Recent content by bumblebee1976

Thanks everyone for the advice about getting an RO unit - I would if I could afford it and had the room!! But thanks anyway :) Just wondered, is boiling water enough to clean my empty water container to ensure that it is clean before I go to collect more water? I can't get inside the...

Thanks again for your message. Is boiling and rinsing enough to clean them? This is what I was advised to do. Because the hole in the top is only a few inches wide, I can't really get my hands inside the container to scrub it. I daren't use water purifier tablets to clean it off because they...

Hi Sniperhank Thanks for your quick reply :) The water is stored in covered containers - I use water carriers (the ones used for camping) and I do rinse them out after each use with boiling water. Do you think that would be sufficient to clean them before I take them to the lfs for filling...

Hi all, I have just checked the tds on my RO water from the lfs and it is reading 265ppm!! I have had the water for a while, does it deteriorate with time? Also I am testing it cold because I haven't yet started to heat it, does that affect the reading? I do get quite a lot of green hair algae...

Hi there I don't have any up to date readings for my marine biorb but it is a 60litre tank which I have had running for about 2 years now - the ammonia, nitrite and nitrates should all be 0 but I think my test kits are not accurate so when I go to collect my RO water, the lfs tests my water so...

Thank you. You confirmed what I thought. Quite. What's the point of paying for dirty water?!! What amazes me is that no other customer has a problem with it apparently. These are marine enthusiasts with huge tanks and expensive stock. Surely they would question it. My tank is only 60...

Hi all, I have had a most frustrating with a lfs regarding their RO water and readymix saltwater, so I just wondered if somebody could verify how important it is to measure the TDS? The first shop I went to for readmixed saltwater gave me water of too low a salinity and when questioned, blamed...

I have the opposite problem; my cleaner shrimp is stalking my royal gramma and keeps grabbing him. I don't know why - is it aggression or cleaning behaviour? Either way, the royal gramma doesn't like the attention. Now the cleaner has taken to sitting outside the gramma's cave and waiting for...

Hi all. I've just purchased a purple firefish for my tank and I am finding it very strange to see him just staring at me all the time! Literally, like alway's just hovering and looking at me whenever I am in the room. I go out and he darts in under the rock!! Sooo funny :laugh:. Anyone else...

2 weeks. I am hoping this heatwave will have passed by then so at least there should be a more stable temperature in the tank, even if other params are not so stable!!!

Okay thanks I will get the figures from the lfs, to include an alk test. Sorry, the system seemed to crash so I haven't been able to get back online since my last posting! I have been feeding more to try and get the weight on the goby, that's all. He seemed to be very thin. Do you think I...

Thanks for the encouragement - I am trying hard but I have not got a quarantine tank. I did consider taking him back to the store because they took another back (my current one's companion which he was terrorising!!). They were putting him into a nano qt. I'm not sure I want to part with him...

Hi thincat - thanks for your message about the heat stressing the aquatic life! Sorry it has taken me a while to get back to you - more has happened since; the aiptasia continues to move, shrinking some of the time and then 'spreading out' to full size but I am not too concerned if he is...

Thanks thincat - I will reuse them. The light is on a permanent moonlight and 8 hours daylight per day. I did wonder what the phosphates were like but as yet haven't noticed much hair algae and that has been my sign in the past of high phosphates. Maybe it is also controlled by cuc, the last...

I am trying to find a way to quote part of your reply but it just seems to quote all of it - any help there greatly appreciated!! Just wanted to ask you what you meant by "Water making that much of a change can and will stress your tank animals". I will watch out for baby aiptasia then where...