Recent content by AnnnetteM

All is connected and you were right, ThANKS!! Now to fill......

Does it matter if I am doing FO with no LR on the TDS? and thanks for all this info. I had this tank as a reef before, but used the LFS for ocean water here in FL. Just wanted to save some money if possible and time and back labor!

The carbon filter was $4000.00 and is a 4.5 foot tank put in the gound of my house, yes it takes out all the chlorine, I tested it. It also reads 0 in Nitrates so how can it throw nitrates into my tank? The phos, I have to check. I have a test for phosphates so I will check it out. If all tests...

carbon filter and water softner?? My water is testing out ok and it was put through copper pipes into the house. Can I use this water?

ok, will try, but it just didn't make sense to me that when the tank was broken down the hose was left on the check valve returning to tank and the hose is too short to reach into sump to connect rio3100. Will try in awhile though and then fill a couple of gallons and hope for no leaks in hoses...

yes, it's long enough, but the way it was before I don't know how when the hose that is connected to the check valve isn't long enough to reach the bottom of the sump. So that makes sense what you say. Chiller hose to sump and rio 3100 to hose for check valve back into return of tank. Is this...

nope, it clearly has an in hose and an out hose? so confused...how bout I take a pic and maybe you could help?

Ok, I am connecting my equipment today and my tank has been down 5-6 months and was set-up from LFS first time. Now I forgot....ok here it goes....I already have the overflow hose going to the wet dry, the skimmer is seperate unit inside the sump, then rio 2100 out of the sump into the uv ster...

I can't seed the sandbed from another tank because of the black sand. I don't want white sand in my black sand and I don't think it will work in my sump since there is where I have skimmer and uv ster. Also the dead shrimp thing, I don't want my 7 year old's room smelling like rot for 4 weeks. I...

If tanks are usually not sucessful w/o LR then I am missing something here as I am about to fill a 110 gal tank w/o it. I was at Big Al's here in s FL and he has a 5000 gal display tank and over 20,000 gal of retail tanks and they have nothing run w/ LR. They use the plug in plastic reef...

I also know the plants and the like should be in my sump...I will be doing that or maybe a small fuge to help with nitrate export.

sorry I meant marine tank convention.....

yeah, I did spend some money for the tank. It was in my bedroom before as a reef system, but I moved and now am setting it up in my daughter's room for fish only. I do have some other decor in the tank for the fish to hide, (little kid stuff she likes). Everyone here in every place I go and even...

I have a 110 gal tank and I put black tahitian moon sand (dry) 130 lbs, a bunch of really cool dry bleached coral branches and some smaller sitting in the sand, wet/dry with bioballs under, protein skimmer, uv ster, chiller, and PC lighting. It will obviously be a fish only and I want to know if...

starting FO tank If I do the LR in the wet/dry in place of bioballs though and no LR in the tank then what would be the purpose of snails and crabs? This may sound dumb, but I would think I would only need to worry about fish poop. Ok, what if I did a UGF in the tank to take care of the fish...