Recent content by Gesh

No, that's all you you need. That must be new. When I bought mine about a year and half ago, it only came with one clamp. I wrote a letter of complaint - maybe it did some good.

It comes with only one clamp (at least mine did). That is inadequate! Eventually it will slip off the hose if you don't add another clamp to the other end (or glue it as someone else suggested) and you will have a mess of water like I did. Buy a plastic clamp, and you may have to modify it by...

I have several loose mushrooms in my tank, which have released from their former rock. I've read about using superglue to affix them to a new rock to result in a nice new piece, but I've never seen details. So, please help if you can. Here are my questions. Do I take the target rock out in...

It is also important to buy two plastic hose clamps. Lock one each on the spot where the hose meets the remora inlet and where the hose meets the powerhead outlet. Trust me you'll be sorry if you don't. Water splashes everywhere as these tend to come loose with the vibrations. If you have...

Do you feed a blue linkia? or just leave it to the algae?

I did triple my bioload and I also added a bunch of hermits. I need to check my log book about interim tests. I'll respond with specifics when I get home tonight. Thanks.

No, but now that I'm thinking about it, the yellow tang & royal gramma were put in together 2 weeks ago (perhaps a bioload problem?). When I came home today, the royal gramma was dead, but the ammonia readings had dropped to 0.3 (nitrite still 0). I went to the lfs and picked up Prime - just...

Ammonia reading has been high - measuring something like 1.0-1.5. Before this, highest reading after cycling was 0.1. I did eveything I know of - changed 1/2 the water; added carbon - no change. Tank is a 55 gallon with 72 lb lr & remora pro skimmer,, all up and running for 3 months. This...

I add 10 ml per day of a calcium chloride solution I bought from a guy on ebay.

Is this correct? I thought you're supposed to clean out the neck of a skimmer twice a week with a paper towel. It gets very dirty quickly I have a Remora pro.

That ebay ad for the Hanna model says no need to calibrate. Is that true?

55 gallon tank established with fish for a month. 72 pounds live rock, 2 fish (clown, royal gramma), starfish, hermits, crabs, snails, 2 shrimp. Here are the test results: ammonia is 0.1 (this is definitely correct as I just got a new and better test kit for ammonia) - is it too high?; nitrite...

Ebay - very cheap, good selection. Mine came very clean

Use all uncured since you're cycling your tank with lr anyway. No need to mix, uncured has more life in it and I think the uncured would mess with the cured lr bacteria causing it to cycle anyway.

You should cycle with the live rock, like I just did with my new tank (based on advice here). Worked out great. In my opinion, it just doesn't make sense to add any fish that yoy don't intend to keep for the long haul.