Recent content by jamiewalder75

thank you Hi there thank you for your reply' I take it you have been there and done that. What can I do to calm it now, should I just let it run and keep emptying until it finaly calms or should I leave it off for a few days

yes hi there. yes tap water with declorinator. is that bad news. i plan on gettin a ro filter begining next month but was told tap would do no harm in short term. the dead fish are out and could only have been dead for no more then 2 hours as they was fine 2 hours befor i left them.

I had some fish die so i took a sample to shop for testing as my tests all came out good. turns out my salinity reader cheap 10 jobby reads wrong and the SG was 1.030 or higher. i added 3-4L of fresh water with the plan of adding more each day to get it back down to a safe and propper salt...

Yes that's it I recon that's the one, so if anyone wanted a pic check out that link, I'm still yet to find any info about it, tricky one by the looks of it. Thanks for that link mate.

hi there i have had my 50gal tank running for only 3-4 weeks now i just got a 7kg peice of rock and tonight a little hitchhiker decided to say hello. its a black crab with red eyes and a brownish orange colour on the inside of his legs, any info would be a blessing, is it safe to keep will he...

hi there, i used marine cycle added to the tank but have not put any life in the tank as i thought that the live rock having life in it may give off some amonia to cycle with, do you think maybe i should put a srimp or somthing in there to produce a little more amonia, it may die tho right

Hello, just signed up today and I must say very impressed, I posted a thread already not sure if you can get to it just by Reading this one, just started up a 50g tank about 3 weeks ago and wanted advice to find out if my skimmer should be running while cycling ect have had a red algie and now a...

Hi there i have been cycling for about 2 or 3 weeks now and have had protine skimmer running. ammonia is showing 0.6 and the PH is about 8.3 nitrite is 0.3 and nitrate is less then 5 on the tests. i have given the tank a small dose of extra bacteria today to help it along and the question is...