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This is urban legend. RO water will not hurt you. You get plenty of minerals from food, even junk food --far more than can be leached out by drinking...
What people do in this situation is completely cover and seal the tanks with plastic and then hook a hose up to the cover with air being pumped from...
Assuming its green coralline algae, don't put it too close to the light. I did this and it bleached it all white. The green is not so easy to find.
Saw a few of those at the LFS. The tank had fine red gravel and the rays were partially buried in it.
You can order a little, cheap in-tank refugium online and put'em in there.
Hermits Crab Cannabilism It needs to be said that a fish does not have to be terribly sick to be taken down by hermit crabs. I had two hermit crabs,...
It is cyanobacteria/red-slime and you're right I do not have enough flow. I'm trying to attack it in multiple ways.
Its dark reddish to brown, stringy and covers the sand. What eats reddish/brown algae on sand? I've heard only troncus snails will eat this kind of...
Nitrates at only 5ppm plus intense light is enough to cause an algae bloom. Also, with nitrates at 20 do a water change out!
Must chaeto be submerged or can it be used in a trickle filter?
Its been done I read another forum about someone who was in this same situation and the tape-sealed tent over the tank with a positive pressure...
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