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Or just get a big ol scoop of sand from a friends established tank, or a few pieces of rock to put in the overflow in the sump. That will help spread the bacteria colonies across the rest of the, what is now, base rock your trying to re-cure. No it will never be as good for say denitrification...

yeah you can, do it from the listing in "MyEbay". Ill send yah 50 for it shipped to 36695, your cheapest route, thanks! PM your paypal, thanks

Correct, the "live" part of Live Rock comes formt he benificial bacteria that either is on the rock naturally or from when we cycle and it goes on the rock, again naturally, just man feed ammonia, not naturally out in the sea. It does NOT refer to the living critters on the rock. Half the time...

Id like to see the light on please, thanks. Does it come with legs?

just end the auction man. it lets you have the fees back.

I would personally boil the rock. Then start over with a tank and cycle with shrimp for a month or 2 until you can add 2 whole shrimps to a 55g and get 0 ammonia in 1 week. At that point, you can use/sell the live rock as it once was before.

I may have one here in a few days, ill keep you in mind. believe it is 1200gph

Pics for light please? How much for shipping to 36695? Thanks!

Ok, its been a while since ive updated this thread, so here goes. I decided to go full mixed reef on my 55 gal setup. I bought a TEK 4x 54w T5 setup. Blue+,6500K, 75/25, Aquablue. It looks great! Got the 4" argonite sandbed down and overflow in place. Im still hunting power heads though...

I dont have that many fish in the anymore. I did the water change out yesterday. I acclimated them to the new pH for about 1 hour. They all lost all thier colors for about an hour after. After then they started acting ok and gained thier color back. pH is around 7.8 or so, so i feel beter...

actually. my fiance wants to have brackish water and hold black mollies etc in there... im going to get the tank cycled with reg water as i spoke before and the tetras. After its cycled, can i manipulate the water and take the tetras out and replace with the mollies etc? follow me? is this...

Ok, well its been a while now and my ammonia is still getting to 4+ppm if i let it. Ill have to do a change every week to keep it down. I stil havent gotten ANY nitrites except one time about 3 weeks ago @ about 2ppm. Since then i havent, straight 0 on the tests everytime and my pH is still 6.0...

Whats your addy so i can email you. I would liek to get some pics of your sump so i can get an idea of how im goign to set mine up. I have a 55 gal tank and it looks like your sump would actually fit in my stand.. i want to use a 20 long, but i cannot fit that under the stand. Thanks!

Good point. /puts away plant food

Ill have to get back to you on that. Not sure of the exacts, alot of plants online look similar, but i would have to go to the LFS to see what they suggested and i picked...

Cool HooKooDooKu, your in bham. Ill have to let you know if i ever make it out that way!

I am using tap water and de-chlor/zyme it before putting it in the tank. I am also using a liquid plant food that has mostly phosphates and iron. Besides that, the only thing else going in the tank is flake food and dried bloodworms. I havent done anything different with chemicals since the...

Yeah, thats why i started with the plants, thinking it would help with my nitrates at first. But im doing so many water changes, it doesnt matter anyway, lol. I had enough time at lunch to do a few tests, but not all i wanted to.. this i what im at now. havent done water change since 1am...

I have an old eheim pump from an old water cooled computer setup i have laying around and i think im going to build a system/plumbing that will pump the water out of my sump and out the window for waste, when i do water changes and then to suck up the SW from my new mixed SW batch, back into the...

Yeah thats what im seeing too.. luckily the bubble catch is only roughly 3" wide with all the sections, so if i can get the right sized skimmer, or even a HOB skimmer (id rather not), and a small (but enough gph) pump and return chamber, i may be able to do something with a 10gal and it fit...

Great site on sumps! Thanks! Still trying to learn how they work etc I beleive all i can fit is a 10g right now, but being i will have to tear her down in less then a year, ill prob upgrade when i rebuild.

Does anyone have a good DIY Sump thread link? Im convienced i need a 10gal to do this correctly for the long haul. Im going to have to tear down the tank when i move anyways, so whatever.. Im not a half @** type of guy, so if ima do it at all, im going to do it right! Im a pretty good DIYer, so...

Yeah the Von Rios are pretty aggressive right now. One being hardly being without fins because the others are fighting with it and they are nibbled off, etc. Plants seem to be doing ok.. growing very fast. Think because i feed them twice a day, they are leaving the plants alone, but yes the von...

Thanks, ive already learned alot, you guys rock!

Thanks for the info, that helps! So lets say the fish die, or i take them out.. can i run a fishless cycle with ammonia for the bottle or decayed shrimp and not hurt the plants? whats the highest ammonia and No2 the plants can take? I guess im going to try to find some kind of phosphorus...