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Your tank is heavily stocked. Well it's more the bioload that some of your fish create, to state more accurately. One of the biggest "poopers" is...
Looks like you have an ammonia spike or algae bloom. I have seen cloudy water during tank cycling when NH3 and NO2 are present i nthe water. Your...
It's funny that the LED fixtures cost so much when LED technology itself is so cost effective and cheap. 1W LEDs cost about $1-3 a piece, go figure....
Was your original bulb one of the halogen floodlights? I use a plain clip-on lamp too, but with a 16W 6500K CF floodlamp. Even after being on for...
Shrimp will act this way when they drop their shells. They hide because their new shell hasn't hardened and are very vulnerable to being eaten. It...
Mine was like that too, it lost a ton of color. Mine was too close to the light and bleached out. It moved down the tank a bit and recovered well...
Awesome! If you need help with wiring it up, drop me a line.
Like Sparky said, your cycle isn't done until both Ammonia and Nitrite are zero. the best thing you can do for your tank is to leave it alone, even...
I wouldn't do a water change at this point. Honestly, doing a 5-10% waterchange won't lower the NH3 and NO2 levels enough to make any difference....
A cowfish can wipe out the entire tank if they get stressed and die in the tank. They release potent toxins when they die. Puffers can be bullies...
Awesome, congrats!
Do you have any critical life on the rock? If you don't, I would pull the rock out and manually remove the bubble then spray it down with RO/DI...
Oh cr@p. Get your Mg level up to 1500 or so.
I am with the wet skim group. When I had my first whiff of black skimmate, I about passed out. From that point. I decided to lower the cup and get...
My tile that I put in for my clowns to lay eggs on was completely encrusted with green coralline algae when it was under the T5 side of my tank. I...
When I put the carbon and PO4 media in teh same canister, I use media bags to separate the 2. Carbon seems to exhaust faster than the PO4 media, so...
Marine Depot has the 2 little fishies phosphate reactor for $33 right now.
I'm not knowledgeable in FW systems, you may have better help in the freshwater forum. But it is true to remove carbon, as that will absorb any...
Micro bubbles can cause problems in your tank. The fish can breathe them in and get the pockets of air lodged on their gills etc. My puffer had...
Air bubbles created by bubble wands aren't a problem. In fact, a wand/stone that creates fine bubbles are good at oxygenating the water. The...
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