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Thanks it looks course and definitely not sugar grains.....I have my 55 which I used the old catle sand in but that was 4yrs ago and it's doing well. I am not really comfy with this stuff in here. Not totally complaining though it came as part of a total reef setup includin fish :D Trying to put...

I just broke down a 90 gallon tank setup and brought it home. I was told that they have a deep sand bed but when i was scooping it out it looks too course to be sand and does not look like the sand in my 55 gallon tank. .... is there anyway to tell the difference? Thanks

My coral banded did not play with others, it was extremely aggressive.

Thanks, I spent last night getting the rock down best I could. Glad I did because the one rock I scooted the goby out off was almost totally undermined. What a digger!! --Liz

I got a nice bullet goby the other day, very kewl. All my LR pretty much sits on the sand bed and he decided to build his goby pad under one of the bigger rocks. should I scoot him out of there and push all my rock into the sand so he can't get under it? Thanks Liz

Luving my refractometer:D

I have the same cloudy issue. I just picked up a bullet goby yesterday and it looks like San Francisco on a nice foggy day in my tank. Although maybe a little bit better today. He's decided to make a nice little goby pad under one the rocks. So here's a question.....assuming this goby doesn't...

I didn't consider an ups because our power usually is out too long and it would run out of juice before the power comes back. I went to radio shack and got and inverter that i plug into my cigarette lighter in my p/u truck...an extension cord, and a power strip and i can power the essentials in...

Mine just went to the rock and hid For the longest time I thought they had died until I moved some rock around and poof there they were. Now on rare occasion I see them out and about on the rock.

I'll try to get some pics soon, the problem with my camera is it focuses on the glass and the lil critters look fuzzy.

update....i have about 20 lil tiny conchs, which just appeared the past couple days. I guess they have gotten out of there larval stage and are coming out to feed on algae. I don't know much about them but they are very cute but fear I will be overrun with them. My orginal conchs laid two...

Mine smelled like low tide in a salt marsh for a few days, then it went away. Cycled with 2 shrimp compliments of the local super market. It took a 4-5 days for it to start smelling. --Liz

Ohhhh that is a bummer, sounds like a disappointing end to your quest. Only thing I can think of is if you have a HomeDepot down there to see if they will order some for you. It never hurts to ask. I have heard rumblings that they may bring it in. Liz

In my 55 I have 80lbs of LR in the tank on a DSB and I put 10lbs of live rubble into my wet/dry that i converted into a sump. I don't have any other filtration other than that and all is well after 9 mos. Liz

It sounds like you have everything figured out real well, I never painted the back of a tank, i went with black on the back of my 29g but just went with a piece of the tank backing or whatever they call that stuff in the fish store in a solid black, can't tell if it is painted or not. As for...

I have a 29 and a 55 in my living room. the 29 is on a stand and the 55 sits underneath our breakfast bar on a carpeted ledge. The 55 is visable from the kitchen and living room. I think we watch the fish more then the television. Now if I can get one of them there awsome plasma televisions hung...

Yike's that would make it expensive for sure, not sure how silica based sand would work into it, but you can always look around for some place that has variety of tropical bagged sand and do the vinegar test on it. If it fizzes ya have argonite. I like it cause of the buffering and stuff and...

Went to home depot and it was pretty inexpensive for the tropical play sand (argonite). I just threw in a lil live sand on top of it. So far so good. The only thing i did was to make sure that I took bags from the center of the pallet and didn't touch any bags that were open or torn. Liz

Have a DSB in my 55, it blew around for awhile but it did settle down over time. Now if I adjust a PH it will move a bit of sand around but it clears much faster now maybe in a day two at most and the water is crystal clear. A little bit on the LR i just blow off but it does settle down Liz

It is argonite sand. I dont have a test kit for alk will look at getting one, and will have to learn how the 2 r tied together. Sry the salilty is 1.022. I get very little skimmate maybe one or 2 ounces a week. I do a 20% change every 4-5 weeks.

Checking paramaters t'day....... nitrite 0 ammonia 0 nitrate 10 ph 7.9 ca 425 Spacificy gravity 1.02 I have a 55gal, 80lbs of live rock, bout 5 lbs live rubble in the sump getting some more this weekend, have been slowly removing my bioballs...have about 25% left. Running a protien skimmer...

On the use of your buckets if there was nasty stuff in them i would just get a couple new ones and mark them for your salt water...just go to home depot or Lowes and get a few 5 gallon buckets there and the lids too, i stick with the white ones...u can also get a 15 gallon rubbermade and aerate...

Well, I started my 55 in January as well and have been using a coralife PC since I set it up. I have the legs for the coralife which has it's own cooling fans but I still had to mount a fan to blow across the top of the tank to cool it down brought the water temp up 4-6 degrees during the day. I...

Thanks, for the info....just wanna make sure i don't do something dumb. Gonna fumigate tomorrow. thks Liz

Ok, the cat got fleas........and well they are in the house and the house has to be fogged. Have 2 aquariums one FW and the other SW which are doing great and not sure if i am ok shutting the power off to the pumps and covering them with plastic for 2 hours. Anyone have any ideas, i can't...