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F/W Dip asap , It will flush it out and help it along you ever have any pyramid snails in there ? If its a new clam it may have brought them in with...
Looks a little wet to me not all that bad but could be better I think , I'd slow the pump or decrease the air to dry it up a bit. It takes a while to...
That would have been my first question also But at 660 its not that high really and the DKH at 10 is a tad on the low side of where I would run it...
With what you have now under the sink sound like its a simple Taste and order cartridge filter if its Carbon ? They are usually about 5 micron to...
Well put I have for yrs just read the Nitrate Factory B/S and smile , I had never heard of a bio tower becoming a NO3 factory until someone wanted to...
You need to add a PO'4 binding media in there somewhere ? PO4 and NO3 are always a given and you have to deal with removing them from the system in...
I have and would never dose any amount of either one of them myself . But thats just me. There has been more then a few studies of them and its...
Its a good Idea I myself just would have opened the bad and poured in right in to the tank or put the sand in then the rocks then water . But your...
I would never add a sump to any system for the purpose of increasing the total gallons of the systems water . A sump if running properly will not add...
The only problem of all L/S is you can not be sure of what it is and is it exhausted . could be a calcite type sand and the pure aragonite is far...
I'd not use a DSB in a new system , as for the sand that also can be washed and bleached just rinse it well . I have used many a ton of old sand...
I'd just put 10 lbs or so in there to seed my new sand . 100lbs of L/S will do nothing more then 10lbs for the system.
Kriss if you need ?get with me Monday I'll get the guy to scrap a tank and send you some sand with plenty of coralline in it. I have it here so thick...
The only thing time of day effects is the Ph reading and testing for ph is next to worthless anyways , If the DKH or Alk is correct then the Ph has...
A refugium is the single most simple concept that has ever came along for the hobby , Its simple a box a water tight one is better and you simple...
Unless you set the refugium up with a deep enough substrate to create a good anaerobic zone then you are not getting the benefits of any de...
Get a probe installed and then find another LFS other then the one that feels a probe is not necessary and tell them you have seen what stray voltage...
Sparky there is a Dacron bag that connects to the pump motor of the diatom this pump set on a old mason Jar the bag is inside then you put some...
Precisely. Congrats on being able to think outside the box. You don't see that happening much anymore. :)
I have said on many occasions to never filter the refugium water , Or to feed the refugium with the skimmers outlet water , I would have never told...
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