Recent content by the21kid

Refractometer I do have....however I posted weeks ago about a little help getting used to it and got no respsonse. What pH buffer would you recommend when it starts going wacky?

I can't lie...I have had some low salinity levels that I just finished bring up to normal a couple of weeks before the ich came about. So when i read that they can't tolerate it I always wondered how mine was able to deal with 1.016 and act totally fine. Now I do understand, as most of us...

"Burce" is at about 14"......think he is too big at least for the duration of 6 weeks to be in the 29? I would much rather catch one and move than catch 5.......but I am only looking to cure the problem

Thanks to both of you. I have no live rock...at least not that I can think of or worry too much about...no inverts either. Shark, from what I can tell cannot tolerate hypo. So this leaves me with the hypo treatment in the QT tank. My question is.......can I cram everyone in a 29gal. Here's...

Some will say that <10 will be fine for a FOWLR. I have a high nitrate concentration in all my tanks with no adverse affect (at least that I can see). How long have you had the LR in the tank. Perhaps you introduced it recently....had some die off which brought up ammonia....and began a mini...

Obviously every tank is different...but my nitrates always run a little high..sometimes 40. But none of my stock ever turned food down, especially the lion. The hanging out on the bottom concerns me as well. I agree that the trigger may be picking on him or maybe the eels. Lions are very...

So my dog face puffer has a sprinkle or four and my Koran has 2 sprinkles....I have a couple fish in my small SW tank so I don't necessarily want to stick them in that tank cause they will get ich too...at least I would think that they would. What suggestions, based on my stock, would be my...

I looked at those little plastic thingys and thought that they were supposed to be hose expanders since there is a little hole in them. I would think that the water would come through that little hole as well. In the meantime though I will shove them in the other outlets and turn it on to find...

So I am not sure how lost I will sound asking this...being that I have the filterdirect RO/DI unit. Mine came with 3 other tubes that can be used to fill a tank...come from a faucet and to something else. Do I need to have all of these tubes hooked up to prevent water from coming out of those...

make sure you invert (not shake but it won't hurt if you did) the test tube after adding 10 drops from number 1 before you add drops from number 2.....and I shake everything all the time

So my local advice guy said the urchin would become lunch for my shark....agree? disagree? agree to disagree?"

Set the tank up about 5 months ago........ No about those urchins....will everyone else be safe? When food goes in the tank "Bruce" goes a little nutty searching for it. Bumps the lion and foxface like they don't exist

Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate <20 Phsophate... .25 I think? Whatever the closest to 0 is without it being 0. Salinity is 1.020 KH and GH are fine I think that's it.....what if it is diatoms? What would I do there?

So......what does a poor schmuck like me do to get rid of the algae on the glass.....see my stock....can't do a clean up crew. The algae is a yellowish/brownish/greenish sort just on the glass..glass thermometer and some of the silk plant tops. I am assuming the my water quality along with the...

...except for a stinky fridge. My wife HATES the smell of the garlic/zoe/zoecon mix. The first time I did it...she grabbed the bowl out of the fridge with no idea what it was...took a wif....and the bowl hit the floor.