Diatoms after one month of cycling?

LOL makes sense, yes, and I have seen only a few pods, small stars(the food kind) and some small small shrimps and things, I amd adding my snails and hermits from my nano into it today to let the have a good snack

 

Honestly, almost everything the local LFS has told me has been off. You are talking to 17 year old high schoolers who first experience with fish was when they started 3 months ago...

 

oh no not me I go to a Marine specialist store, lol they build custom saltwater aquariums and things, and are all very knowledgeable, they have over 5000 species there from fresh to salt, as well as a huge variety of corals, most have been in the hobby for 10-20 years lol but still some people have different opinions so I try to talk to a few of them and get all the opinions then make a decision from there haha.

 

+1 m you hit it outa the park again;D

 

Do you mean the self fill up station at Wal-mart? I know that by using ro/di from the lfs you are trusting them to change filters and and give quality water but does Wal-mart? I may just use Wal-mart for .33 a gallon.

 

I highly doubt walmarts awesome staff does that very often lol if they do count me in

 

Vendors handle this type of stuff. Not Walmart staff lol. There is on way I would trust Walmart staff to do this. Either way, I should have a RO unit for my house within the month anyways.

 

i live in an area where there's a community well, i use a pure filter on my tap because they put so much chlorine in the water the taste is awful, the tds of the water without the filter is 157, w/ the filter it is 145 so it does make the water taste better but, does not remove the tds, my ro/di tds is 0 there's just no comparing them as far as water treatment, water in the reef aquarium should be as pure as we can get it in my opinion, algae seems to be a way of life in the closed system so, the more we do as in water purity the better the start. just a carbon filter alone dosen't get it for me but, if its all you have it is better then nothing.

 

Thanks for the advice, I would eventually like.to get an ro/di unit but we have our forts born very close and its not the top of our list of course hahaha but I am looking into getting one for under 75 to 100 dollars at the moat when the time comes so if you ever hear of a good deal let me know! I'll sway the wife lol