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Here's my summer vehicle. My dad and I restored it when I was 16, been driving it daily during the summer(unless the weather is crappy). It's a 1970...
Being that I am a week in now, is there anything in particular that I should be expecting to show up? Such as beginning of a diatom bloom or algae...
Dang...thought I was taking a small step ahead doing that, oh well.
Did keeping the media from drying out help at all?? Or did I just waste my time?? Parameters after a week (again, these are off dip strips)...
No, just freshwater
Also, the canister filter that is on the tank was not put on new, it was on my freshwater tank for nearly a year. I kept it running on my other tank...
I will get a shrimp to put in, and I was thinking of changing the rock work around a little bit. I had thought of doing a two island scape when I...
Thanks! The tank has been up for 6 days now, started it up last Saturday.
OK, So far so good!! Here on day five, some of my parameters are(just going off the dip strips I have left, my good test kit is on order):...
Ended up getting about a 2lb chunck of live rock, it seems to have a bit of purple coralline algae on it and I did notice a couple little critters...
Everything seems to be going good here a full day after set-up. Will be heading out tomorrow after work to hopefully pick up a few chunks of live...
It seems to be a good unit, I've read a bunch of good reviews on it and they were all good. The only thing I have to gripe about is that it came with...
Yeah, I didn't plan on having it running, just was making sure it worked and figured I'd ask the questions..thanks!
Hey guys, I just got my Aquamaxx skimmer and tried starting it up today. The tank is brand new, just got it set up last night, and I wanted to start...
Thanks!! I haven't really decided what I want to get yet, I have a few ideas though. It will be fish-only for a while but I would like to eventually...
I would like to seed it, but around this area there really isn't anywhere close that has any live rock, so I would have to order from somewhere....
Thanks! It's a Wave Point twin tube fixture with 1 10000K bulb and 1 460nm actinic bulb
Thanks, pictures are up here http://www.3reef.com/forums/show-off-your-fish-tanks/my-55gal-build-108328.html
Thanks!! It gives the whole room a blue hue to it, so much brighter than my boring ol' single tube fixture that was on the freswater tank!
Some more pics
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