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  1. General Reef Discussion
    Hi everyone, I have been keeping fresh water and FOWLR for over 20 years with no issues and I consider myself fairly knowledgable about it. Water chemistry in those type of set ups as we know it are less challenging than coral set ups. Recently (4 months ago) I decided to up the challenge by...
  2. General Reef Discussion
    Hey guys, so I recently moved my tank. There was a small leak in my skimmer so I had to take it all down to clean up the mess that was on the floor. In doing so I decided to rearrange my live rock, and I added a bottom to the tank, I hate BB. I probably lost about 30% of the water maybe 40% when...
  3. Nano Reefs
    We are new to the salt water world. We started with a 20 gallon tank, set up 4 weeks ago. The tank contains 16 pounds of live rock, an inch and a half of sand bed and around 800 gallons per hour water movement. From what we were advised at our LFS and from what we have read is that as the...
  4. General Reef Discussion
    Hello, I introduced a small CUC to my 30 gallon tank, 6 snail, 6 hermits , ans 1 coral banded shrimp and 4 days later may ammonia went from 0 to 0.50 ppm is that normal??? I feed the coral banded brine shrimp but very little and every 2 days. If its not normal, what should I do? THANKS ....
  5. General Reef Discussion
    Ok guys I have a question about testing kits for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. I am color blind and wanted to know the best kits to use that have big differences in color from level to level. Or if there is another method that doesn't use color. I know there are PH probes and I am also aware...
  6. General Reef Discussion
    Hi I was wanting some advice on maintaining and adjusting water parameters to keep them stable. My current levels are nitrate around 5ppm, PH 8.3, Phosphate < .25ppm, Ammonia 0ppm, Calcium 420ppm, DKH 9, and salenity 1.025. Iwas hoping to find out what I need to do when corals start using...
  7. Non Coral Dominated Systems
    I have been testing my tank for a few weeks now and my tank has been doing perfect. I used instant cycle LS. I did a 50% water change monday and noticed what looks like smoke all in my water. After the water change I did use the bacteria supplement to keep things in check. I had been using...
  8. General Reef Discussion
    Hello Everyone...We are new to the hobby of Saltwater Tanks. We really do not know much about them at all. We set our tank up this weekend. We're wondering what are the proper nitrate and ammonia levels? What temp. do you recomend the tank be set at? Do certain fish like to "be together"? So...
  9. General Reef Discussion
    Ok so I am new to this salt water stuff. Im trying to learn and have done some reading. I have a general question. The live rock has now been in my tank for about 10 days. It seemed in pretty good shape when I got it. Didnt smell and was only out of water for less than 24 hours. I found two...
  10. Crustaceans
    hey, was just wondering if any1 could give me some advice on how to lower my nitrite and ammonia levels fast? will my protein skimmer help at all? also i have a wolf eel acting a bit strange ie lying around when its usually pretty active. would this be associated with the elevated levels? all...
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