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This is going to be a fishless cycle, as long as I can hold of the kids especially the 27 year old one that I call "my wife". What is a good water prep? And yes I'll just fill up a 5Gal bucket with the Brita, condition it and throw it in every week, or I could just wait and try to do 30Gal...

I just finally got all my equipment and I filled up my tank, this is what's in it. 135Gal 6' length 2 Emperor 400's 3 Hagen 402's hooked up to an UGF (I KNOW) 3 200W heaters and a bunch of silk plants and ships Now my question is that my pH is about 8.4 out of the tap, but when I tested my...

Well I just retested and it has the same pH as before, but I also tested my Brita pitcher just now and it's in the 7.4 pH range.

Yes, right out of the tap. Mines around 8.0 to 8.2 or 8.4, I might of found out that I'm alittle color blind to these colors because it's so hard to distinguish between these colors. It's light like the 8.0 brown but redish like the 8.4!! What's my next step, you wrote that like I shouldn't...

How feasible is it tp lower your pH from 8.2 to something lower than 7.5 in a 135Gal tank? I sort of went about this wrong and didn't expect my pH to be that high. I don't want a bunch Cichlids.

Another problem is if I was to use these reverse flows how do I get any current movement for my fish? Isn't this one of the main functions of a PH? I know they're suppose to help in the UGF's biological cycle but also they create currents for the fish....right?

wouldn't that elbow change the GPH output. And on those you would have to use the "sponge" filter. At least that's what it looks like to me in the reverse kit for Penguin. Both together should alter the hell out of the GPH. With the Hagen, how do they work, motor cranks the other direction...

The flow of the tank is everything together or is it just the powerhead GPH? Learning everything from books and two of them go against each other. One says to add the total gph of everything - filters and powerheads. Another says just the flow of the powerheads is totaled into the tanks GPH...

Menagerie Why? Canister filters are so much better with large tanks Because I just started to learn about Canisters. First thing that stopped me was that I thought your tank had to be drilled to use this system? True/False? Meredith I will get another thermo to take daily checks like you...

Hello all! I found out about this forum about a month ago and pretty much been trying to read everything that deals with me. This is my first "major" tank and I've been going at it very slowly....it's been 6 months now and I finally put gravel in it last weekend. Slow but sure! I really want...