Recent content by dlwn88

Post a photo of your Saltwater or Reef Aquarium

Yeah like carey mentioned, bringing over the water really won't do you any good. The good bacteria lives mainly on surfaces

Yeah. I found a very small piece sticking out a little bit. After several failed attempts of cutting the plexiglass 100% perfectly, I found a place that would do it. They cut it perfectly, I just had to sand the sides down just a tiny bit to get a better fit. Waiting for it to dry now, may have...

Hey everyone, Currently building my own sump. I read somewhere to cut the plexiglass an 8th of a inch less width wise to give you wiggle room to silicone the baffles. Well I did this and applied a little pressure to get it sit perfectly straight and the 20g tank shattered. Any ideas on how to...

I believe the Xp3 is already acting as a nitrate factory. I changed the water about a week ago and nitrates were at 5, now they are at 20 or slightly higher. I've cleaned the bio balls in the wet/dry but haven't opened the xp3 yet and it has been running for a month. Instead of cleaning the xp3...

Yeah tha'ts what I plan on doing, or buying a new sump setup with room for a refugium. I have a skimmer in there right now but I'm hurting for room lol My overflow is rated for 400gph. If I took the xp3 out today would just the wet/dry at 400gph still be good turnover ammount? In this case...

Featherduster(s) that was added to the tank about two weeks ago

Why exactly do skimmers take time to "break in" ?

Haha I seatch local craigslist ads for aquarium stuff just for the heck of it but I never saw that one, that's interesting. Go MTS! lol Let me know if you get it. Maybe I'll bump into you at Fish Safari sometime. I was there sunday looking around and picking up water.

Thanks for all the info guys. I went to my favorite LFS and discussed my concerns, and he pretty much told me the same thing as what I read here. He takes care of other peoples tanks and has seen it work sometimes. I was willing to give it a shot but I just recently got a good clean up crew, so...

Here it is, mine looks slightly different as far as the pluming coming into it, but basically 100% same thing Wet Dry Filter System - Sealife Systems I have the live rock rubble under the egg crate, fully sumerged. There's about 5-6 pounds in there.

The wet/dry is from sealife systems, it has something just like that before the bioballs. Will having this alone fix the whole bioballs problem? I just added about 7 pounds of live rock rubble on the bottom, will this be enough? i havent removed any bio balls, I'm slowly going to start doing...

Hmm okay thanks. If he is the smallest in the tank will he still try to attack a clown twice his size?

So -'m just about stocked in my 75g but I know I have room for one more fish. My girlfriend insist I get this tiny Picasso trigger and I think it would be a good addition. If not what fish would you recommend? The fish I have are in my sig below check the compatibility chart but its already...