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I use a jebao rw15 on my 120g and I love it - I think around $80 on amazon Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Thanks I will get them in the next couple of weeks Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I know this is kind of the boring stage of a build thread and I'm not sure anyone's going to be reading this so thought I'd entertain myself (and you if you're lookin') with some pics of my FW tanks. My baby, my favorite little 10 gallon Sorry for crappy iPhone cam but too lazy to do...

Just rock, water, powerhead and heater, bare bottom except 2 little piles of tiny pieces of rock (I forgot to rinse rock before I added water oops) I added ammonia 2 days ago, yesterday test kit and heater came and nh3 was 0.5 so I added more ammonia and today it's 1.0 so I added more again...

So far I have: -Ugly but useful 55 gal using to cycle dry rock - BRS 4 stage value plus RO/DI -Red Sea coral pro salt - jebao rw15 powerhead - API test kit for NH3/NO2/NO3, I will buy better kits for other stuff once I add live things -Aqua via 200 watt titanium heater set at 79F -Refractometer...

I will try to get a better pic this afternoon. This is my new jebao rw15 powerhead, the tank is bare bottom since there will be a transfer soon to the big tank. This means I can go crazy blasting the pump and not worry about stirring up sand. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Extra 55 gal I had laying around. This will become the sump soon. For now I'm fishless cycling 55 pounds of dry rock with ammonia. I don't have a light yet so waiting on live rock for now. This will be the stand for the 90 gal. Haven't ordered the tank yet because this room is being renovated...

Not sure why pics didn't work in the first post Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

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Ok here goes my first SW tank, decided to start a new build thread. Decided about 6 months ago to use this empty 55 gal for a reef tank instead of another FW. Realized I had no idea what to do and started researching. Changed my mind a million times about what/how to get started. Finally...

Safety first Bought 54 1/2 pounds dry rock today. Will add another 20# or so of live rock from LFS once I transfer to 90 gal. Ordered Jebao RW-15 powerhead which should be here in a couple of days Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

My husband loaned me a stand to put the 55 gal rock cycling tank on Check out the sweet mirrored background on this tank. This tank will become the sump once I order the 90 gal and my husband cuts a whole for plumbing into the basement. This is the stand for the 90 gal. It's made from...

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So after much deliberation I decided to skip the nano, cycle some dry rock in my spare 55 gal and move forward on getting ready for the 90 gallon. First purchase was this. Plumbed into the water in laundry so waste line fills washing machine. Still need a big container on wheels for storing...

Thanks for all the advice. Currently thinking I will move a FW tank to my bedroom. I will put the nano in the living room where it's easy to work on it. The nano really is for practice and to learn about SW and coral. As soon as our new room has flooring I can order the 90 gal but this could be...

We have a lot of breakers which are all in use to some degree but I think so far all tanks on diff. circuits. The nano tank will likely share either with my 5 gal unheated shrimp/snail tank or share with at least 2 FW tanks downstairs. I guess that decides it, bedroom it is. And I guess this...

thanks for your patience getting through my post, I knew it was long but so much to say... what do you think about the electricity issue? I was going to ask my husband to install one of those gfci plugs at each sw tank, then I'd have to plug a power strip into that. does that sound a lot to...

Hi thanks in advance for any advice and sorry if I'm too wordy. I am currently planning my first saltwater tank. I did take care of a reef tank many years ago with my dad but it was a very different experience as we lived in the Caribbean on an island with no LFS, used seawater for water changes...

I have 1 beta, 7 neon tetras and 2 otos in my 10 gal heavily planted. They all get along great and very entertaining to watch. I added the otos after tank was up only a month but I was very diligent with water changes (daily at first) to keep nitrites down until tank fully cycled.

Ok I will go up on my excel and drop to 6 hrs light. I don't think it's bba based on pictures it's really long threads and is light brown. Some I pull off and it is at least 4-5 inches of super fine thread. I have been rubbing some off with my fingers and I think that is helping too. The cabomba...

Ok the algae is getting out of control, any advice is welcome. There is brown hair-like algae completely covering the cabomba except the top 2 inches or so and some new growth at the bottoms of the stems. I got 2 otocinclus who did a great job on all the flat leaves of anubias, crypts and swords...

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Update time: BRING IT algae, I'm not afraid. Not true I am actually very afraid. This has been the cause for failure in every previous planted tank. I have some hairlike algae growing off the crypt leaves, a brownish green haze on the glass and although I have great new growth on my cabomba...

Did another 50% WC today. Starting to see what may be a haze of algae on the glass so ill scrape that when I change water tomorrow. Ordering flourish/excel from amazon tonight. Still measuring low lvls of nitrites and zero NO3.