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looks like you have gotten alot of great advice.

I dont know if I can answer all of your questions but I will give it a go. If yo want 1000 gallons I think the right size would be 1.5 diamater maybe 2 inch would work best. I use PVC for my overflow to drain into my sump. Right when the water drains into the sump I have my skimmer right there...

I have heard of peoples tanks taking up to 8 weeks to cycle. So that is normal what I dont know is how high the ammonia gets when there tank cycled for that long. The main key in the hobby is patients. I am not saying that you arent patient I am just saying that a tank can take quite a long...

oh sounds good congrats.

I would think so, that is about what I have and everything in my tank is doing great. I think the so actinics was a typo. I wish I could post some pics but I dont have a camera. You should be ok though.

sure thing.

go used, my T-5's are retail $500 dollars and I bought them used of $200. Not bad considering all the bulbs were new and all I had to do was plug and play

NO I have so actinics and a super actinic. on the outside of the fixture and in the middle I have 2 daylights and a white super actinic.

do you think it would work if you mixed some washing soda,(cooked baking soda) into some RO water and dosed your tank with that to bring you ALk down? I am not quite sure on what that would do to your ph but I do know that it should bring you alk down. It should bring your ph down too, but I...

What kind of lights did you get? Halides? T-5's? Just wondering. Not a bad deal at all. I had to do the same thing with my tank though. What I mean is I live in Idaho and I bought a tank that was in Utah, and it was an existing system. What I did was took plenty of buckets so that I could...

I dont understand how the alk can be high and the calcium is high but he ph is the only one low. Huh, When I have had my calcium high both the alk and ph were low. and vice a versa. I would try to raise the ph, maybe by using baking soda or something, but I dont know if that will rase your alk...

T-5's are really one of the better lights out there. I know people will argue with me but I think that metal Halides and T-5's run hand in hand. They both have there good things and bad, but I like them both equally and from my experience everything seems to do very good with both lighting...

This probably wont answer your question but on my 75 gallon sps display, I have 6 54 watt T-5 HO over it and everything is growing like mad. I cant believe the growth. I just got a clam a few weeks ago and it already has some nice growth on it. Just thoought I would chime in to let you know...

My Zoo's have little white dot's (looks like fungus or ick like dot's, by the head) on them, and they will not open. Have'nt opend for days, and it looks like it is spreading to others. What is this, what should I do to treat it? Could I do a freshwater dip? Thank you, Dustin

ASM is my vote

Have any of you heard of Lake Bonniville Tufa Rock? If so I was wondering if it was steral when it was cleaned out or if it would have to go through a cycle before you put it in your tank.

With only the fish and the snails in the tank I dont know that I would worry about it but I am sure you want to have some nice coraline growth in your tank so You do need to get the calicum down. If your calcium is high it will effect the ph and also the dKH. Typically the ph and dKH will be...

Sorry about your yuma, Just so you know the next time that you get a mushroom that wont attach all that you need to know is there are a few ways to get them to attach. I have never been successful with glueing mushrooms to rocks. I dont think that they can attach to the sand bed either unless...

oh ok, I think I am going to keep the tank up and running just so that I know it will be ready when I decide to get a tang, a powder brown or blue, or maybe just he regular yellow fella, Im not sure but that helps me a ton. dusitn

I was planing on putting a bit of sand in the bottom as well as some of the rock from my fuge, I must have forgotten to put that in my first post. Sorry, I just want to get this strait, If I put sand rock and used some aquarium water from my display it still wouldnt be ready? From your post...