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My three year old son likes sticking his hand in our tank. He says it "tickles". I make him wash his hand afterward though. Not all shrimp seem to be this friendly. I had one before the one i have now and he would always hide when i was in the tank. The other day i was arranging corrals and my...

I will have to get the test kits. Thanks. Where does the Ca go? Does it get precipitated?

The tank is 60 gallons. ammonia=non detect. nitrite =0, nitrate=10. They did not fight and the only symtoms were they would stay on the gravel and some would breath fast. I added a piece of drift wood, but i don't think that is it.

I purchased 10 big and colorful , mostly male rams, and am now down to 2 in 3 weeks. I checked my water and it was ok. Ph was about 6.2. I read that they prefer lower ph and soft water. I read at a web site that these rams are hormone treated and have bacterial infections. They just seem so...

Calcium !!!!! You guys are probably right. It is just a hastle sometimes to dose. Lately i am having trouble raising my Calcium above 350. I use Kent Kalk and Turbo calcium. Maybe my test kit is no good??? Does anyone know the Calcium level of Red Sea salt mix. I do weakly water changes of...

Can you DIY and do you need CO2?

On hot days it is going to about 82 . I have to run the AC in the room to make it come down to 80. The colder the room the better it works. I should have gone with a 1/10 hp regular freeon chiller, for $100 bucks more. :x

you can get glimmer lines with pcs , but you have to raise them about a foot or more. I have a white LED flash light and it does a good job of creating glimmer lines at a lower hieght.

I purchased a Aqua Medic Titan 150 Thermal elect chiller. I set it for 75 deg. , and it is holding at about 76 durring the day and 75 at night. It does put some heat into the room, but nothing major. I still have to see how it does on a really hot day.

I purchased a retro kit from reefgeek , it was a 2x32Watt kit . After checking different sites , reefgeek had the cheepest price, plus free shipping on $50 and above orders. I got the kit pretty fast since they are local. I was satisfied . :wink:

I have some kind of worms that spread on the glass. There are hundreds of them and they look like roots on the glass as they move. They seem to be eating the algae and green dot algae off the glass. They do a good job. :? Does anyone know what they are and if they are harmful, and how to get...

What do the flat worms look like? I have some kind of worms that come out of the sand and eat the dot algae off the glass. There is many of them and they look like roots on the glass. Are these flatworms?They sure clean the glass good, though! :roll:

I have a Remora and the sponge really doesnt do any thing unless you stuff it in the prefilter hole at the bottom where the water is suppose to come out. The only problem is that it keeps floating back up to the surface, and the bubles bypass it. Im going to try and put it on the inside of the...

I installed two computer fans in my canopy , one blowing in and the other out. It cooled the tank 3 degs. It helped some . I am going to try running the AC to try and stabalize the room temp a little and see how the tank does. :idea:

I just hope i can cool my tank when im away and the room gets up into the 96's. I have a 5 gal freshwater and it got up to 92 one day. Nothing in the tank died, i opened all the window and put a fan blowing on it. The temp came down pretty fast. I just dont want to worry with my nano reef. Im...