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Thanks everyone for the advice about getting an RO unit - I would if I could afford it and had the room!! But thanks anyway :) Just wondered, is boiling water enough to clean my empty water container to ensure that it is clean before I go to collect more water? I can't get inside the...

Thanks again for your message. Is boiling and rinsing enough to clean them? This is what I was advised to do. Because the hole in the top is only a few inches wide, I can't really get my hands inside the container to scrub it. I daren't use water purifier tablets to clean it off because they...

Hi Sniperhank Thanks for your quick reply :) The water is stored in covered containers - I use water carriers (the ones used for camping) and I do rinse them out after each use with boiling water. Do you think that would be sufficient to clean them before I take them to the lfs for filling...

Hi all, I have just checked the tds on my RO water from the lfs and it is reading 265ppm!! I have had the water for a while, does it deteriorate with time? Also I am testing it cold because I haven't yet started to heat it, does that affect the reading? I do get quite a lot of green hair algae...

Hi there I don't have any up to date readings for my marine biorb but it is a 60litre tank which I have had running for about 2 years now - the ammonia, nitrite and nitrates should all be 0 but I think my test kits are not accurate so when I go to collect my RO water, the lfs tests my water so...

Thank you. You confirmed what I thought. Quite. What's the point of paying for dirty water?!! What amazes me is that no other customer has a problem with it apparently. These are marine enthusiasts with huge tanks and expensive stock. Surely they would question it. My tank is only 60...

Hi all, I have had a most frustrating with a lfs regarding their RO water and readymix saltwater, so I just wondered if somebody could verify how important it is to measure the TDS? The first shop I went to for readmixed saltwater gave me water of too low a salinity and when questioned, blamed...

I have the opposite problem; my cleaner shrimp is stalking my royal gramma and keeps grabbing him. I don't know why - is it aggression or cleaning behaviour? Either way, the royal gramma doesn't like the attention. Now the cleaner has taken to sitting outside the gramma's cave and waiting for...

Hi all. I've just purchased a purple firefish for my tank and I am finding it very strange to see him just staring at me all the time! Literally, like alway's just hovering and looking at me whenever I am in the room. I go out and he darts in under the rock!! Sooo funny :laugh:. Anyone else...

2 weeks. I am hoping this heatwave will have passed by then so at least there should be a more stable temperature in the tank, even if other params are not so stable!!!

Okay thanks I will get the figures from the lfs, to include an alk test. Sorry, the system seemed to crash so I haven't been able to get back online since my last posting! I have been feeding more to try and get the weight on the goby, that's all. He seemed to be very thin. Do you think I...

Thanks for the encouragement - I am trying hard but I have not got a quarantine tank. I did consider taking him back to the store because they took another back (my current one's companion which he was terrorising!!). They were putting him into a nano qt. I'm not sure I want to part with him...

Hi thincat - thanks for your message about the heat stressing the aquatic life! Sorry it has taken me a while to get back to you - more has happened since; the aiptasia continues to move, shrinking some of the time and then 'spreading out' to full size but I am not too concerned if he is...

Thanks thincat - I will reuse them. The light is on a permanent moonlight and 8 hours daylight per day. I did wonder what the phosphates were like but as yet haven't noticed much hair algae and that has been my sign in the past of high phosphates. Maybe it is also controlled by cuc, the last...

I am trying to find a way to quote part of your reply but it just seems to quote all of it - any help there greatly appreciated!! Just wanted to ask you what you meant by "Water making that much of a change can and will stress your tank animals". I will watch out for baby aiptasia then where...

Thanks thincat! Wow - what a great pic! A clownfish hosting in a feather duster, that is so cool, I didn't know they could do that! I am going to get a pair of clowns after my holiday so maybe they will do that in my tank. After posting last night I went and checked on him and he was...

Thanks for that Thincat - wow cool pic! He is cute, must have buried his tube deep into the sand - mine had the same size crown but a longer tube. Your sand is really deep. Unfortunately I went to look at him last night after posting the message and he was stretching out further and curling...

The only thing he is getting specific for him is the invert food, and I think I've only given that once or twice at most since I got him. But I guess he is getting liquid and particles from the other foods - I am feeding to try and help my goby as he is looking thin. Would the food situ affect...

Oh, so it's perfectly fine for the hermits to 'pick' at the tube if they are removing dead matter? Seems like they must be doing that - every member of the cuc has had a go and then moved on but the cleaner is a bit more of an obsessive-compulsive. He even follows me as I move, he's a greedy...

The cuc have been on him since I got him, on and off. Actually they seem to be leaving him alone at the moment, which I am pleased about because the lfs never said anything about aiptasia or cuc harming him. The aiptasia came with the live rock, I was new to marines (still am really but...

Hi melosu, sorry for the delay in replying - I usually get prompted when there is a reply but for some reason I didn't this time and haven't been onto the site to check this week. The water I use is all RO. I have noticed some drop shaped brown marks appearing now aswell, this is the first...

Hi, I was just wondering if anybody could tell me what is happening to my giant feather duster worm please. I checked the other posts but couldn't find the exact problem I have so I thought it best to start a new thread. So...the tank has been running since beginning April, 60litres, stable...

Oh sorry - I didn't realise, since it was a related post I thought it went on the same thread. I stand corrected - thanks.

I have had a brown dust like algae on the bottom third of the acrylic surface since setup (beginning of April), which seems worse after a water change. It is also settling on other areas of the tank but is not long like hair algae - is it likely to be diatom algae? It does wipe off easily but...

Hello Arizonagrace and welcome to the forum. I am new to the site aswell and have really appreciated the advice of the experts on here with my new marine biorb. I am loving your tanks! You must have a room set aside for them all!! Happy fishkeeping!