Shultz
Aquarium Advice Freak
Well here's a tip from one newbie to any others reading this:
Today after speaking to my LFS who agreed the tank has cycled I decided to do some last minute aqua-scaping, big water change to bring the Nitrates down & then use reef putty to hold it together since I'm only working with a small tank.
Now the fun part, the reef putty caused the water to go cloudy, at which point I should have left it alone, then rocks started falling over, which then caused dust/partitcles/small bits of rock to shift & that meant I couldn't see a damn thing!
Took all the reef putty out cause it didn't seem to be helping, got the skimmer & PH's open full now cleaning up the "mess" I've emptied the skimmer twice with nice purple putty coloured bubbles
Now 2hours later I can atleast see the back of the tank once again, I hope I haven't upset the balance in the tank & now I was going to put the first fish in tomorrow, but now I want to check the ammonia etc again after 24hrs so it will be saturday at the earliest.......
Here's that newbie tip you've been waiting for..........
Unless its life or death, don't fix what ain't really broken!!
Cheers Shelton.
Today after speaking to my LFS who agreed the tank has cycled I decided to do some last minute aqua-scaping, big water change to bring the Nitrates down & then use reef putty to hold it together since I'm only working with a small tank.
Now the fun part, the reef putty caused the water to go cloudy, at which point I should have left it alone, then rocks started falling over, which then caused dust/partitcles/small bits of rock to shift & that meant I couldn't see a damn thing!
Took all the reef putty out cause it didn't seem to be helping, got the skimmer & PH's open full now cleaning up the "mess" I've emptied the skimmer twice with nice purple putty coloured bubbles
Now 2hours later I can atleast see the back of the tank once again, I hope I haven't upset the balance in the tank & now I was going to put the first fish in tomorrow, but now I want to check the ammonia etc again after 24hrs so it will be saturday at the earliest.......
Here's that newbie tip you've been waiting for..........
Unless its life or death, don't fix what ain't really broken!!
Cheers Shelton.