good question, and I honestly dont know the answer. Good to be aware of and will probably motivate me to test my source water (which I am yet to do). Thanks for the advice.
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good question, and I honestly dont know the answer. Good to be aware of and will probably motivate me to test my source water (which I am yet to do). Thanks for the advice.
Yeah the calcium has me a little puzzled - I use actual ocean water from out here (live in LA and there is a company that pumps it from deep off of the coast, away from pollution), so no additional...
Quick update on this evening's chemistry: ammonia and nitrites sitting nicely at below detect. Nitrates climbed back a little to 20ppm. My thought is to do a large water change tomorrow to bring...
So yesterday evening marked the end of the second day of having the shrimp in the tank - it became covered in a translucent film (I had already put it int before your sensible advice of putting it IN...
it's like you're reading my mind. I dropped a raw shrimp in yesterday :) going to test chemistry again tonight.
Good advice, thanks. the sandstorm was also because I didnt rinse the sand thoroughly first - gave it a single volume rinse and thought that was enough - clearly not :)
Update on the algae screen...
Couple extra pics....
Algae scrubber on day 7
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Also had to build a new canopy for the DT and added some shelving to it. Still needs to be stained/sealed (black) - that'll be the...
Hey everyone - thanks for the welcoming nature of the responses in here so far...
So full disclosure: I am a complete newbie when it comes to saltwater aquariums, but have kept freshwater tanks...
Thanks SaltyDawg and CarmieJo. Sorry for the delayed response - I've been busy building an aquarium :)
Carmie - my return pump is only pushing ~275gph at head, so not much at all, but the koralia...
Sorry, should have given a little more info - I am going to combine a Bean Animal overflow down to my sump that will contain LR but which will also have a circulation loop running the sump water over...
Hi everyone - first post on here - thanks for all of the great info.
I am about to build my first saltwater tank - 60G reef with bean animal overflow, sump etc. I am going to get the Eheim 1262...