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Well i got my salt in today and my reef masters test kits. didnt get a chance to test my water yet becuase i had to get out to our new house and keep on painting. but ill check it all tonight, everything. then you all can help me decide what is wrong with my tank.

Yesterday i put the first months rent down on me and my girls first place. Its out in the country where there isn't a dedicated trash pick up, so you either have to take it out to the dump yourself, or you have to burn it. So while we were wondering around the property (2 acres, but situated...

You need a baffle in the chamber outside of the tank that comes up higher than the bottom of the overflow tube. This keeps just enough water in the back chamber so you don't lose your syphon. Water should only go down to the bottom of the slits in you skimmer box, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Ok well i broke the cheato up and now it covers most the top of the water. I had to add a filter sock to the intake line cuz the cheato had a lot of stuff in it and when i broke it up it all went into the dt. But its thinned out pretty good and looks like light is getting all the way through it...

Man life is making me eat my words yet again. I ended up spending all day getting my new house all lined up. Only about ten minutes away from my prison, so ill save 2/3 of the gas i was using to get to work to pay new bills. tomorrow i go and pay the first months rent, then i gotta paint it. The...

Be watchful of your nitrates, coral beauties dont have such a big tolerance of nitrates as other fish do, and i suspect thats what cuased mine to die. he looked fine one day and was dead the next.

Here is a pic of my sump with the cheato in it. and the second pic is of the light in my stand.

Bump for easy finding tomorrow when i do the water change. Got a small 5 gallon water change done, but thats not a whole lot. Tomorrow ill get a 10 or 15 gallon water change going. Im still waiting on petsolutions to ship out my bucket o salt and my reefmasters test kit though, so still won't...

just an NO t5. one of those short white ones that link together with other ones. i think its a nova.

Ok so about 2 months ago, i put a ziplock bag stuffed full of cheato in my sump. I have my stand light on 24/7. My nitrates are high off the charts, but thas another thread. My question is, why is it my cheato doesnt want to grow or help out with nitrate exportation? I have a quiet one 2200...

i bought an mj 400 when i first got into saltwater, and i hated it. i tossed it in the stand and forgot about it. it was just too weak. then i saw the 1600 mod for it and it was dirt cheap so i figured why not give it a shot? turns out i love it. very wide strong flow, and with the magnet mount...

ok so today i didnt get a chance to test the water or dose sugar. the inmates at work hav just been running me to the ground these last two days. i didnt wake up till 11 this morning. and we are expecting a shipment of 238 inmates from the coastline where they are evacuating everybody, so im on...

i see an upgrade coming in your future.

well nitrates are still high today, about 80 to 160 ppm. i didnt dose sugar today, but i did check the levels on the water i thaw my frozen food in. if there are any nitrates in it, its just barely above zero. so no notrates coming in via tap water or my frozen food. i dont have a big bioload...

i know its becuase of the sugar dosing. it would take a week to fill half way up before with a light colored water, now its pulling out some pretty good stuff.

i do have a skimmer, its a skilter 250. pretty much useless before sugar dosing, but now its filling the collection cup in about 2 days with a almost coffee colored gunk. doesnt smell at all though..... could be my cold messing with me though. nobody else has complained either though.

how would i go about testing my frozen food? thaw it in a cup and test the water it was in? and yeah sorry about the rant, jus seams like more people are against change even if its good. anyways /rant.

If that was the case, nobody would have had any luck at all with sugar/vodka/vinegar dosing and it would have died before the second person saw it. This process must work otherwise there wouldn't be huge threads on another site where lots of people have done it and had good results with it. In...

Yeah guys i get it, water changes are the way to go. Im doing this to prove to myself whether sugar dosing works or doesn't work. Im not so much worried about having the high nitrates, becuase there really isn't anything in my tank that is too terribly effected by them. I promise i won't come on...

Originally Posted by RCreations I would not dose with sugar personally. I've read on another popular forum (can't mention the name here I think) a lot of people had their tanks crash many months later after dosing with sugar. It's still a new thing, nobody really knows what effects it'll have...