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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.

lol...I saw that happen at a LFS last night....By the way...the above reasons are why I went with my stock...big enough to catch...and I can't do a reef with them. I hate catching the ones in my 29...I couldn't imagine doing it in a 180

Is there a tray above the bio balls...you can put a prefilter there (foam or the like) which will reduce the impact sound of the water that you are getting

Maybe a pair of the Poor Man's Moorish Idol's....I can't remember the scientific name...hennicohus something or other I think

12 for me

lol....I will never forget the first time that I actually vac my gravel in my FW tank. I was new to the hobby and had only plunged the vac into the gravel...lifted to let gravel fall out...and moved it around repeating. I decided one time to actually get all the way to the bottom above the UGF...

So I got one off Ebay....the black one yada yada yada.....tried to figure it out...no luck. Can someone help me figure out what I am to be doing first and foremost...i.e. calibrating and the like. And any other helpful hints would be nice too. Many thanks in advance

Ok...so after giving my RO/DI unit from Ebay some break in time and ordering a TDS meter, I decided to run around the house with my TDS meter to see what I came up with. HTH My tap water is about 158 on the TDS......after getting water from my PUR filter that is connected to the same tap it...

timd818.....madasafish put up an excellent profile so I would love to see the write up on the gold nugget. However as I quickie I thought I would share my quick thoughts. LOVE MY GOLD NUGGET! He is in a 44gal corner.....plenty of driftwood. The only other pleco I have in with him is the King...

After almost a year mine still hides a lot...comes out when he feels like it.

I have a different model but I love it. Will take a week or 2 to break in.....this will be evident by the amount of air being released from the air valve. Eventually it will get quieter and quieter as it gets broken in.