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That's the problem. If you add the salt first you get a reaction (precipitation of the salts) because there is so much salt in so little water....
Just keep the HOB on hand, it can be handy if you need to run carbon/chemipure/etc. You can throw it bag on the tank if needed and it gives you a...
I had a pail of salt for 5 yrs and it was still good. It was IO and kept in the original pail. I can't see salt mix going bad truthfully. Did you...
With that much rock and a skimmer, that should be all you need. I only run liverock and skimmer on may tank, with some ph's for circulation. I'd just...
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Hopefully she's just stunned, let us know how you make out. Fingers crossed.
The fish should be okay (assuming you are monitoring the Cu level and it's not too high), but everything else is gonna die if you don't get it out....
I'm hoping the cuprisorb can take can of the silicon, but no promises.
That doesn't sound like too much. I would just concentrate on lowering nitrates phospahtes (may need to find a new water source). And lights are good...
The damage is done as far as copper in DT, can you get a QT tank set up to reat the fish while getting the DT cleaned up? Are there inverts and such...
How much are you feeding? I find most people really overfeed without knowing it, I used to do it myself. As for lights, just how old are the bulbs?...
Everything is now contaminated with copper, next step for me would be to grab a copper test kit and some Seachem CupriSorb. Hopefully you can get all...
+1 here, I'd do new sand then use teh rock to cycle the new tank.
I should mention the K on your lights is a little low, generally for saltwater you want 10k to 20k. Although if it's fish only, you can do 6.5k, but...
Well there you go lol.
Are you adding it directly to a existing tank? It should still have live bacteria on it, but probably has had some die off so you may see a cycle.
You could just use fish food. Do you feed frozen mysis lol?
You get one point for every dollar you spend. They always have certain items that you get extra points on when you buy them (different weekly...
You could use the skimmate if you wanted. Anything that will break down and go through the nitrogen cycle is gonna work. I'll stick to deli shrimp...
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