Recent content by NateNBeckie

Generally those temp settings on the heaters aren't too accurate. I have one of mine set to 81 and the tank is at 79. One of my other ones is dead nuts on. Nate

I have had the same problem with Oceanic. I switched to Instant Ocean and now that's all I buy. Just start using it with your water changes. No problems mixing them. Eventually you'll be all IO. Nate

79 on all of my SW tanks. Nate

Yeah, well, this rock is so dead I don't know what to do with it. I'm hoping I can nurse it back. UPS screwed up and it ended up sitting for days because they misrouted it. The smell was unbearable and there were dead crabs, worms, and coral all over the package. I don't think I'm going to...

I just have a question (maybe 2) about curing LR. Should I drop a heater in the tub that I'm curing the rock in? The water is at 69-70 degrees since it's on the lowest floor of my house. Is that too cold? The second is, do I have to have sand in the bottom of the tub, or can I do without? Nate

Flow is a big thing. Putting higher flowing pumps in my tank stopped my cyano in it's tracks. I haven't had a problem since. Nate

I was talking about both actually, but since you answered my SW question, I figured I'd continue on about the FW. Nate

Update: We reported them to Paypal last night, and lo and behold we got a response today saying they will reship them today. :roll: They said they didn't respond to our messages because they were with their kids. Hope they get here by Friday, because if they don't, there's going to be a ton...

Ok cool. But what about doing water changes in my FW tank? I checked the PH of the RO/DI and it's 6.4 ish, and I've read it here too. Nate

Alright, I know I read it somewhere, but I can't find it. RO/DI water has a very low PH. Even too low for most FW systems (6.4 or so). How do you guys that use RO/DI water get ethe PH to match the tank PH? Nate

So I think this guy with the LR screwed us. He said he shipped them last Monday and sent us the tracking number. All week, the UPS tracking said "billing info recieved, but package not picked up." We questioned him a few times about it and he stated UPS did pick it up. I talked to a buddy...

Ok, thanks. I don't have a sump or anything. I'm using a Bio-wheel 150 in one, and a 125 in the other. I wish I could ditch the 125 because it seems grossly inadequate compared to the 150. Yeah, the 230 GPH the PH900's put out seem to be more than what I need for the 29g, but I figured since...

IT talks about it in the auction. Keep in mind filter life is dependant on your tap water quality. They kind of contradict themselves in the listing. Where they show the replacement DI media, it says "on average about 1600 gallons" whereas further in the listing it says "On average it is...

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/showquestion.php?faq=2&fldAuto=6 That seems to be the agreed upon way most people do it, with a few variations. Nate