Recent content by roho

I use instant ocean salt. I did a 25% wc today that droped it from 22 to 17. Guess I'll do another tomorrow. Thanks.

I tested and found my PH to be low, so I added some baking soda to stop where it was or raise it some. Now my PH is 8.0 and my KH is very high at 17. My ca. is 330. What do I need to do about the KH?

The regugium has 3in of live sand and live rock. I use DI water and, up until a week or so ago only feed the tank Plancto once weekly. Since then have added a couple fish and feed brine shrimp every couple day's. This stuff starts coating the inside of the tube going to my refugium and has a few...

About 6 weeks ago I put Caulerpa and 5 mangrove trees in my 4 gal refugium. The macro algae grew so fast I had to thin it out after 4 weeks. I removed my protein skimmer about 4 weeks ago also because it kept getting, what looks like very short hair algae, in the water supply line going to the...

Thanks Guy's. I'll have to use the #16 because I have to order it online and shipping would be to much to order #3. Thanks for the advise.

I plan to build a refugium, so I wanted to test the bond that the Weldon #16 would give to two well fitted pieces of 1/4 inch acrylic. I placed a even coat of the Weldon on and let it set for several hours. I put very little pressure on the bonded piece and it came apart. Can I trust this stuff...

I need to get rid of this algae or the reef itself. Tired of fooling with it. I had a little spot of what appears to be turf algae on one of my rock when I purchased it nearly ten months ago. Now in the last few months, it has spread to several other rocks and is still moving. My water parms are...

I just need enough to put together a 18"x12x12" refugium. Shouldn't be much. Thanks.

Where do you buy Weld-on? I can't find it anywhere.

I have a freshwater 55g that I want to convert to a sw fish tank. It has 2 of the larger Whisper filters, plastic grass and white gravel. Will they be OK to use in the fish tank? I plan to use NO lighting also. Please give me some advice. Thanks.

I have a 20 gal reef tank that I use DI water from a portable filter, but wouldn't get into that with the 55 gal. I have to replace the filter after 35 to 40 gal at 25.00 each time. The expense of a complete RO/DI unit would not be worth it to me. Looks like I'll go the cichlid route. Thanks.

I remember several years ago, I tried to maintain a 7.0 or 7.5 ph and a hour or so later it was 8.3 again. I just thought that something new had been found and it sounds like magasfish really like the SeaChem product. I kinda wanted to put in a several Angel fish, but maybe not. Thanks to all...

I have a 55 gal fresh water tank that has been up for years. Kind of lost interest in it, so it got run down. I would like to clean it up and put more fish in. My well water has no nitrate , nitrite nor phos., but the ph is 8.3. What can I use to lower it to 7.0 and keep it there. Thanks.

I would make sure the water params are where they should be and change photoperiod back to 6 or 7 hours for now. Use a very hungry cleanup crew and RO/DI water. Probably lower the temp to 76-78. :)