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I am looking into RO/DI filters and am taking your guys's advice. Do you all think spectra pure is the way to go? and even tho I have a 72" tank from what I've read I wont be doing very big water changes? Sorry but I just sold my 30+ fish and am used to doing 50% or more weekly..... So if I am...

I dont know if this is a stupid question or not but on the AI's can you turn them sideways possibly to cover more space?

Hey guys I am currently cycling my 125 and am looking to upgrade my lighting. I am thinking about getting 2 AI SOLs. Im not going to get too crazy with it as this is my first saltwater tank and I dont have too much to $ spend on lighting, I was thinking around $800 thats why the 2 AI Sols sound...

And By the way I havent added anything into the tank yet as far as amonia or shrimp or anything and I already have an amonia reading of 1.0 and I just added the salt last night so that gets back to my origional question which was, when I put the salt in did it kill all the old bacteria and start...

Thanks for the replies. I am looking into an RO/DI setup and the LFS sells saltwater already so I guess I could do the big water change with RO/DI water after the tanks cycled. and yes I am trying to save some money, Bein and single dad taking care of my 3 year old son is hard work and preschool...

Thanks I understand that. But what I'm guessing is that I'm essentially starting from scratch anyway by having a die off of the old bacteria which will produce amonia and then be converted and so on. Do you see where I'm trying to go with this?

Thanks for the response, I'm not sure if I want to travel back and forth to the LFS everytime I want to do a water change and being that its a 125 that would be alot of water that I would have to haul right? I know there is so much reading to do and I have been looking online for the last week...

Hello everyone I recently decided to sell my African cichlids and make the change to Saltwater. The guy at the fish store told me to just add salt to the freshwater and let it go through a quick cycle. So thats what I did. After I added it I thought I would look online to see how long it would...