Recent content by Elvis164

Thanks, am I taking your advice and raising the level slower. Got the protein skimmer working properly today. There was a clog in the end of the air tube by the intake. All fish look very healthy today and all ate as soon as i fed them. Thanks for everyones input. I'll post pics as soon as I'm...

In my lfs's defense they did not know my salinity was low nor did I at the time. sent wife to store for sand and snails and she came back with the shrimp. Took some water there today. All my other levels seem normal. Just the low salinity. Gave me 10 gallons of sw to do a water change with today...

I did as recommended by my lfs, floated em in tank for 30 min. then started adding small amounts of my tank water into bag little by little. Then released into tank.

First thing in the morning I am heading to my lfs, which specializes in salt water installs and maintenance and picking up whatever I need. Unfortunately they were already closed today when i realized the problem and agin this was an emergency situation. Thanks for all the input

Sorry I am new to this, the salt level is 1.016. A friend who helped me move it all tested the water with both a refractometer and a hydrometer. All water was transferred from existing aquarium along with a large amount of live rock, which was all transported in clean 5 gallon buckets. Washed...

So I rescued a 60 gallon salt water aquarium from a friend of a friend today which was stocked with a clown fish, a blue tang, a butterfly fish, a blue damsel and another yellow fish I am yet to identify. I moved the aquarium fish and all the water about 15 minutes to my house. Cleaned the sand...

Thanks for all the advice, the cichlid tank is now on hold as I will be taking ownership of an up and running stocked 60 gal SW tank that a friend of a friend needed to get rid of. So that will be a project just moving it to my house all in itself. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Not really sure yet, still researching that. Just trying to get it up and running first. But after hearing some horror stories of flooding from canisters I'm leaning towards HOBs now. Might have a hook with a friend who just had some cobalt blue Zebras babies so I guess Malawis.

Thanks, I see a lot of guys using canisters and HOB's? Is that neccesarry or just for some additional filtering? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I am about to start setting up a new 75 gal cichlid tank. I have no cichlid experience and limited aquarium experience. i have never had a tank this big and never used canister filters. i was hoing for some recomendations as far as which filters and how many as well as heaters for a tank this...