Recent content by Dirttrails

Thanks Kevin and Troutman. Troutman, for the tetratec filter I'm using the two green slide in filters plus the block of open cell foam. More live rock is cool, I guess it's time to set up a curing tub. Thanks for the help and clarification.

This weekend I took some water to the LFS for them to test, just as a double check for my peace of mind in that I'm reading the results right. All usual paramters are good pH, ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates are where they should be. So I guess the color that ammonia is returning is a little...

Hi Kevin, My tank is 26 gallons, maintenance procedure is daily salinity checks, I check ammonia, nitrites, nitrates every other day, I change about 5 gallons every week, tank filtration is just a tetratec 150 and a Rio 400 powerhead. Bioload is about about 13 pounds of live rock, three...

I'm still really confused about the supplements and such that are added to saltwater tanks for different things, so hopefully you all can help me get things to make more sense. What do all these supplements do? I've read the bottles, talked to various LFS people and it's just really getting...

Thank you for the replies, they really helped. I do have a KH test kit, the calcium test kit was price at $36 dollars so I'm waiting for that one until I reason out if there's less expensive ones available. I'm told that the strontium/molybdenum test kit is prohibitively expensive, but the LFS...

Hello everyone, I'm new to the saltwater aquarium hobby, and aside from the money side I'm finding it to be really enjoyable because of the nice looking fish and it's fun to play with the little test kit vials and gravity measurers. My tank is 26gal, with about 8 pounds of live rock, the...