Recent content by Zacks

thought id send out an update on the tank, I actually did in fact give the damsel back to my fish guy, and I bought a six line wrasse the other day. I m fairly confident it's fully cycled by now after a bottle of bio spira in the beginning, a few weeks with 21 lbs. of live rock. So anyways, I...

Another answer to your question, when cycling, you can basically *** tap water, the water itself will sort itself out over time and w/o livestock present there won't be any issues Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Well, first of all an hob filter is not gonna do you much good at all really, use the hob but with a protein skimmer as well, the 38 gallon is a decent size for a nano fowlr tank, but also isn't small enough to not need a skimmer. As for sand, you sound pretty good in that area... As for live...

So anyways, for the future, (next weekend or so) I want to complete my stock... I have my little damsel, and in addition I would like a six line wrasse, and a royal gramma. I'm definitely open to getting rid of the damsel if there's any sort of problem and replacing him w/ a false Perc or...

So anyways, I went to the new store I found and they had everything in bulk, I bought 16.5 lbs of live rock for 2.99/lb so that puts me up at 20... My damsel is doing great, and the tank looks awesome I was also wondering what this was... I found about 3 of them on my rocks Sent from my...

Alright so good news, I'll be returning that purple rock to my lfs, and I found a completely marine fish store 15 minutes away from me that I've never visited before, their website has insane low prices on live rock and I'm planning on getting 20-25 lbs in addition to my 3.5 lbs of coral...

Well for one thing, your nitrates should not be 0, they should be 5-20, maybe 40. But with your numbers it sounds like you just threw a filter and fish in the tank without any kind if proper cycle Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

The blue one most likely is a demasoni, or could've just come from the assorted tank at petsmart Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Yeah you're right it does look like that, but I've got coralife 50/50 bulbs and the rocks end up looking neon purple and it starts to look unnatural Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Maybe so, but with the bio-spira it should begin to start breaking down ammonia... And yeah I haven't been using the painted rock. It's just stupid looking I bought a 5 pound box of this Caribbean "live rock" for 4.99/lb and I'll just return it. My question to you guys is should I get more of...

Now I also added a bottle of this stuff, and I know it obviously doesn't instant cycle, but it definitely grabbed a jump start on it Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

See this stuff looks ridiculous wouldn't you say? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

See the rock you have is what I was looking for, Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I also replaced the hobs with a 400 gph canister with a uv sterilizer and surface skimmer. I'm ordering a bigger one for my 55 :) Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Then I also bought about 5.5 lbs of dry rock and it looks absolutely ridiculous, it's painted a bright purple and ugh it's going back to the store... 30 bucks for unnatural looking rock. It was sold off the shelf as Caribbean live rock Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice