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Increased flow can also be a help with cyano. I directed a powerhead across the sandbed and it helped with mine.
They are proud of them, aren't they.
Who is selling these, and what's the pricing like?
Is it smelly - rotten, or just smelly - fishy? The stuff smells like hell even fresh. If it was just overnight, I would (and have) re frozen it with...
These sockets are all designed to be connected to at least 15 amp household wiring - not that any bulb is made that could draw 15 amps (1800 watts)....
It's probably working properly, based on your bioload. Unless you are grossly over feeding, you're not going to get much. If you set it up to skim...
I've found the remoras skim a little wet. What I get is like slimy green tea. How often is your cup filling up? If you are getting watery skimmate,...
There are plans for a cheap diy upflow ats on several forums. I believe the guy's name is Santa Monica something. For test kits, you might try...
I know! I'm fighting hair algae with 0 nitrate and 0.08 phosphate.
Think he said earlier he was using ro/di, but suppose it could be bad. That's a lot of nitrate to be coming from top off and water changes, but worth...
Can't beat the Red Sea Pro, nice kits with cases, and they sell refills. Salifert also good, I hear, but haven't used myself and hear they're not as...
As long as none of the additives are adding nutrients, shouldn't matter. What kit did your lfs use? Do you know anyone in the hobby who might have...
What test kit brand are you using? How old is it? Are you having major algae, cyano, or glass slime problems? Still thinking about false test...
If you use the fluval, don't use it for any bio media - that'll just make more nitrates. Just use it for your nitrate resin, carbon, pellets, gfo,...
Skimmer should be in the first chamber where your overflow dumps in. You want that dirty water skimmed from the surface to feed into the skimmer....
Not really. You can run a perfectly successful tank with no sump are all. Sounds like you've got plenty of water volume and live rock. More room for...
At 250 gallons nominal system volume, minus live rock displacement (somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 gallon per 11 lbs) you're still only looking...
+1 on the purigen. And keep up with the water changes. I would still consider bio pellets or some sort of carbon dosing if you you ended up with...
Good point on the sand bed. I would watch all of your parameters very close the next week or so, in case you disturbed it too much. Be prepared for...
Peppermint Shrimp have worked for me. I still have to kill. The random larger aips that slip past them, but they seem to keep the tiny sprouts in...
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