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Soak food like brine shrimp in garlic. Thats always worked for me. Ich is there a lot of the time but a fishes health determines whet her it can attatch itself.

Skimmer should go in the first chamber, then the fuge, and finally the return. Some pods will make the journey and some wont but they all will be eaten! i put some snails and a few blue legs in my fuge. I went the deep sand bed for mine. Check out some miracle mud ( i might order some of that...

That's always a good thing to know! I have had mine overflow a time or two :)

Salifert is the most accurate in my experience Andi always order mine off eBay, it's much cheaper than the LFS.

I second that..

I bet.. Gal you weren't hit to bad! I live here on the gulf coast so I have seen quite a few, but we are prepared for it as well.

Nitrates should drop to zero soon!

I dose calcium twice a week and purple up three to four times a week.

Yes sir, I use it once the tank is seeded and already some growth on pumps, rocks, glass etc. it really takes off when you start dosing it. On a regular basis it literally multiplies overnight! If I put some cured rock in my tank a month later it's covered :) but watch your calcium levels...

Always an exiting time! Purple up works great for me!

A tank without LR is boring to me! It has way too many beneficial qualities to not have in a tank!

Also as far as your cycle goes, it takes usually about a month do complete! When I did mine about 4 years ago, I left the shrimp in the tank after I did my first perm test for about a five days! Two days later I got a spike in ammonia to about 7.5. About five days later and adding some pods and...

I just love the stonework under your tank! It looks great!

Fry that hammerknocker!

Love it...