Recent content by cmwalters

Saltwater Aquarium for Sale! This is just painful. Like honestly, are they serious? How could someone possibly think this would be okay.

Acclimated some corals yesterday. As well as two firefish a couple days ago. Everything is going amazing.

Man it's been a while. College has been crazy and I have had zero time. So I got a 8 gallon biocube today, well my mom got it but looks like I'll be taking care of it. No complaints, she's coming around to the whole fish keeping thing. It's saltwater and eventually gonna be a reef. Should be...

So I was at my lfs with my mom today and she wanted to purchase a 8 gallon biocube that he had for sale. The tank was cycled there and we used half of the original water and all of the live rock that was originally in the tank. I expect a small cycle from the die-off on the live rock, but it...

Bought a 20 long and switched the 20 tall over to the long and put the tall in storage. I will post a pic tomorrow.

The driftwood has been in there about 7 or 8 months. I haven't tried purigen.

I do filter maintenance every other sunday.

Exactly what the title says. It's a planted 20 gallon with: 2 kribs 3 pristella tetras 5 pencilfish 3 bronze corys It's been set up for close to a year. There are two pieces of driftwood but I know that they are not still leaking tannins after this long in the tank and being boiled before. I...

Celestial Pearl Danio.

How much did you get yours for? Mine were $8.99 but it was the first time I've found them around here so I couldn't pass it up.

Added 3 celestial pearl danios to the 5.5. They have colored up very well and are eating. They are such a pretty fish but very, very shy. Also added some floating water sprite and changed the light bulb. Trying to cut down on the massive amount of algae that tank is growing. Other than that...

If I get it I'm thinking about venturing into the salty side.

Just inquired about a free 55 gallon tank with everything. Haven't gotten an email back but I'm excited.

The brown algae is diatoms, which feed off of excess silicates in your substrate. Because of this, they are limited by the amount of silicates in the system and, once all the silicates have been used up, will die off. However, diatoms are a sign of a newly established aquarium. Regardless, algae...

Exactly. If the tank was just running with water and plants, there would not be an ammonia source to start the cycle and keep the cycle going.