I have two Rubbermaid 32 gallon containers I use to store my rodi water. Coming out of the rodi systems reads 0.00. Water in the rubbermaid after setting 2 hours reads 0.60. I just cleaned with vinegar and set outside to dry. Would that be causing diatom blooms. Im changing water every...

Hi, It's been awhile but my tanks still going strong. I have apastia on my clean water flow knob thing going into the tank. I noticed one on there before and I wiped it off. Now there's five. So right now I'm soaking the part in vinegar and did a water change. Will that kill it? Do I have to...

Seen this topic on other forums but it hasn't been brought up in a few years. WHAT IS THE BIOCUBE MADE OUT OF?!?!?!?!?! I see that is says "glass" on the box and website. Even called Biocube and they said it was glass. This thing isn't glass though. No Way. Glass does not scratch this...

Hello everyone. My new protein skimmer is coming in tomorrow :) which i am excited for. I have read that running a vinegar bath for a few hours will help the break in process. I have a few questions about this Does a vinegar really help the break in time? Also what type of vinegar should I...

Some general tank info first. 125gal w/ 20 gal sump, sal 1.025, Ca 420, Phos .25, trates 5-10ppm, pH 8.4 I've been Vodka dosing for approx 4 weeks now in order to battle a nitrate problem that was hovering around 80ppm despite regular h2o changes, reduced feeding sked etc. As you can see, my...

Hi everyone! It's been quite the build for me, it's now going on 6 months & I'm ready for water!! Last week I filled the system with fresh water & white vinegar. My thought was that I would clear all the pipe & pumps of anything that's no good. What I noticed is that after a week of the...

chemicals used mrs wages pickling lime(kalk) kents iodide instant ocean reef salt in rodi water distilled white vinegar after reading this http://www.reefscapes.net/articles/breefcase/kalkwasser.html i decided to switch from kalk to kalk plus vinegar i've had good look in the past by adding...

I stumbled across this looking at past posts about kalk dosing. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? Is there a down side? Kinda long but interesting.. When Calcium Hydroxide solution (Kalkwasser) is slowly dripped into your aquarium, it captures free Carbon Dioxide present in the tank water...

Hey guys and girls, I have heard you can clean your power heads with vinegar, but i was wondering what kind and what ratio? Do you think it would be ok to use red wine vinegar or apple cider vinegr? (as that is all i have in my cupboard as of right now) Would i mix 1:1? Thanks as always!

My PH has been holding wayyy to high for my zoanthids and feather dusters. It holds at around 8.5-8.7. My alkalinity stays right about 8.5-9.5 so no problem there. All my other levels are stable and I have never missed a 1 week water change of 15 %. The tank is new and only been set up for...

Any thoughts? I will probably start doing this unless someone can convince me otherwise. 1 tsp kalk + 15ml vinegar + 1qt water http://www.reefscapes.net/articles/breefcase/kalkwasser.html I may go with a little less than the suggested vinegar amount. Also, I will probably wait till I get...

My pH reading indicated I needed to add an acid. Someone told me to put in vinegar. Now my tank is cloudy, and my pH has not gone down. What can I do?

ive got sum sand from sum bags at HD. the kolorscape brand, put it in sum apple vinegar n nothing happened.... could i tak a piece of cc n throw it in there, will the cc bubble?

ok so theres a restaurant i go to that sells there 5 gallon buckets that food comes in. they sell them for 2$ with a lid. and there the lids with the gaskets, so i had to buy some if they were that cheap. well the two buckets i got were dill pickle buckets. and they reek of vinegar, i am very...

So we picked up the new to us 50 g and 20g sump from lfs today. It looks fairly clean but I'm just wondering what's the best thing to do to it now? It was a reef tank set-up that the owner surrendered because the wife gave him an ultimatum. The rock that he gave the lfs did have some aptasia...

So I just got my new (well new to me) 75 gallon tank today, I am very excited:). I will be taking some pics of the progression and posting them on here but for now I am trying to clean it up. What is the best way to clean a tank. The corner overflow is covered and I was wondering if there was a...