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Thanks for the comments. Yes you're right...like any animal, they're fascinating to watch. I think crabs in paricular are fascinating creatures....
Thank you ALW for replying to my post. Just to let you know that the crab died last night. I suspect that damage was done to its respiratory...
Thanks for you reply - you've given me some hope!! It's sad to see things like that happen. I guess the next few days will be critical for the...
Thanks for the advice. I think more plants is definitely a good idea. At one point, even with partial water changes every 5 days I was getting...
Hi Guys, I've posted on here a few times. I have had 2 rainbow crabs for about 3 months now that are both fairly young. They don't get on...
Well there's nothing "biological" about the sponge - it's just a standard sponge that would come with any regular off the shelf filter. The media...
I'm using an internal filter that consists of a sponge and some sort of media pack.
Hi again guys... I was asked to post some photos of my aquarium setup which I did last week. Does anyone now have any comments please now that...
I've read people talking about keeping crabs before and the general consensus seems to be that invertebrates don't like nitrates being more than 40ppm
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But I was told that mineral water is high in calcium and magnesium (or is it manganese) and that these aren't harmful to brackish/salt water...
Thanks for the reply. I'm not using ro/di water yet as it will be about 2 weeks before I've got the system. I am currently using zero nitrate mineral...
Following on from my previous thread about high nitrate levels http://www.3reef.com/forums/inverts/high-nitrate-levels-please-help-51277.html I am...
Thanks for all your help and suggestions and sorry if some of my questions have been "newbie" questions and addressed a thousand times before!!...
Please forgive my ignorance here as I have never seen nor heard of this unit before. Do you connect it up to your tap and then perfect aquarium...
But none of the aquariums around here supply RO water. The tap water is not suitable. So I've had to use mineral water and then add some...
Thanks for the suggestion. I specifically bought mineral water that had a virtually zero nitrate level. Its amazing what variations you get between...
Brackish. Ive got about 3g of aquarium salt for every litre of water
They were proper, sealed rocks that I bought from a local aquarium
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