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Drilled 125 tank is a reef tank, fresh water set up,

Well I wanted to give a deep sand bed a try on my 125 fresh water setup. I was a little nervous about it at the start but 3 ½ months in and it just kick in. came home from a work trip and the DSP look a little different … I tested for nitrates last night and … 0… I thought I made a mistake and...

Just stated a 125 show tank,, I going with a sump ... much more media and hide all the stuff. my thought is to add a 20 long planted with a sand bed to the sump will post scketch soon

Cool WY I just stated a 125 show tank with a 50 gal sump (30 gall wet dry and a 20 gal planted with a deep sand bed) on on day two of the build, should be fun, tested the overflow on tonight,

I drain and fill with a 50 ft hose to the basement shiphon the water out.. fill from the lundry tub .. set the temp and fill away.. i have a fan sprinker head on the end of the hose so it is not to forcefull. shut off valve all real cheep. I alway add decloinator to the water in the tank and...

I can’t find your filter online... does it have a place for filter media? Like bio rings? Or is it just a mechanical filtration with carbon pack? IMO the Aqua Clear 50 at the least or better with the Aqua clear 70 .. The bigger the better, It uses the bio rings for biological filtration...

what kind of filter are you running? you may not need the bubbler..

add 5 drops and check after 1hr.. then you will know how much to add to get it to the to 3 or 4 pmm. the next thing you will need to get the little buggers growing is heat.. raise the tank temp to 82. What kind of filter are you running? Can you get any seed material from some one or some...

I did almost the same thing... did not wash the sand good enough.. I did two large water changes and used a 24 in gravel cleaner to get the dust out of the sand.. I was clear in a few days note the long gravel cleaner alows the sand to settel out of the tube. I use this to clean my sand now...

4ppm is the goal. I used a medicine syringe to measure the amount of AMM , will take a little trial and error to figure the amount to add, Q? is it pure AMM or 10% or what? You will need to know exactly how much AMM to add to get it to adjust the levels up by 1ppm at a time.

the Daffidills look like the have paired up already. pretty much 50 50 Julis are a little skitish still no way to tell yet Cry are allready showing growth wow! I guess the will be 2 1/2" in a month or two the speciosus are little bull dogs i think 3m and 3 f one M has about 1/2 the shell right...

Thanks Jonathan You been a big help Gmike

new dudes on the rock

few more Gmike

Well they are all settled in, long trip from NY, they missed the first flight and were stuck in the box for 14 hr. All but one of the Cyrp made it. Wow I was so happy to final get them home. Here is what is in the tank 14 cyp. leptosoma utinta 7 Julidochromis transcriptus 7Neolamprologus...