Recent content by benwallage9

Drained the tank last night filled it with water I got from petco. Says its ocean water. Tested it before adding it and ammonia was .5 ppm in all 3 five gallon boxes I got. Everything else was fine nitrate ph and phosphate, so I added it to the tank. Tested again today and ammonia seemed to go...

so turns out that the tap water does contain about 1ppm phosphate. So should I completely drain the water and restart the tank?

I did use tap water. I know it's a big no no. I will check the tap water tomorrow if bad I will drain and get ro water. Just hate to completely restart.

Went out looking for ammonia after work bought stuff with ammonia hydroxide and surfactant after some quick research found out the surfactant is a big no no. Glad I didn't get too excited and throw it in. Other test kit was here when I got home. the results: Ammonia: 0.5ppm Nitrate: 5ppm...

Awesome advice thank you! I will adjust power heads accordingly. On the ammonia I'm assuming you mean the stuff you can buy in the cleaning section at most grocery stores? Also do you have an addition suggestion like X amount per gallon? Like should I start with a tablespoon or like half a cup?

Cycle seems to be taking awhile... The test haven't had any significant change since last week. Ammonia remains at .5ppm. Nitrate is maybe 5 ppm (however could easily be zero this whole time). Nitrite is 0 and ph is 7.8. I have been putting in a defrosted cube of brine shrimp every couple of...

Yeah I'm worried about that too. I added a AquaClear 30 and placed directly over the rocks. I also looked up the power heads and they are rated at 528 gph so I took one out. I can but it back in but the sand kept piling up. I also read you don't want to point it directly at rocks... Is that...

Thanks for the info on the shrimps. I will read up on both of those. Looks like my nitrogen cycle is finally starting my ammonia started going up Monday and is hitting .5 to 1 ppm today. Nitrate also looks like 5 ppm. Ph 7.8. I had a bunch of brown algae bloom I'm guessing it was due to leaving...

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Carey thanks for the reply. I am a fan of shrimp too would a peppermint and pistol be to many in one tank? If not would I also be able to do a banded coral? I attached a short video of my tank. I'm trying to position the live rock in a way to allow for maximum coral placement and maximum hiding...

So I've been thinking about doing a nano reef in this 20 gal hex tank I've had for awhile. The lfs was having a killer deal on live rock so I pulled the trigger and got 23 lbs of live rock and 20 lbs of live sand. The tank is up and cycling and now I'm at the tricky part of researching inverts...

Alright thanks guys, you have given me alot to think about. I will post an update when I get it up and cycling.

Thank you that was extremely helpful! The reason I was going to do 5 inches of sand was I wanted to get a yellowhead jawfish and I read that they need that much sand bed...

Ok I'm getting confused..... If I plan on doing a 29 gallon with 35 pounds of rock, 5 inches of sand, no more than 4 fish, super hardy and easy corals, and maybe an anemone. Using an led for lighting and over 1000gph in two power heads. I know live rock will do most filtration but ppl say...

So do use the HOB? And run either phosban or chemipure in it with some of the floss stuff?