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ok it a 30 gallon abour 4 months old. i have a penguin biowheel 350 filter, a 110 gph powerhead, a 170 gph powerhead, a 250 watt visitherm stealth heater. 16 pounds lr, 40 pounds base rock. 1 clownfish, 1 yellowtail damsel, 1 coral banded shrimp, 1 peppermint shrimp, 5 blue clawed hermit crabs...

yeah thanks for the help. ill try that.

ok so maybe ill try that, just adding a couple cups every other day or so. should i spread it out or should i concentrate it in one area every time? and how do i go about getting it to the bottom of my tank without causing a huge sandstorm?

thats a decent idea too. but what im talking about is emptying my tank, then adding all the sand, then filling it back up. After all the sand has cleared, ill add the lr and fish inverts back with the water. keeping all the old water for fishs safety.

Ok to start out, my 30 gallon wasnt researched too thoroughly before i jumped in. im using about a 2 inch sand bed, and my nitrates will not go below 20-25 even with weekly %20 water changes. I decided to go ahead and get this over with before i finish stocking my tank. My PLAN is to get another...

wow where were you when i did thid a while ago? thats a good idea.

im having the same problem. 30 gallon with 1 clownfish, 1 yellowtail damsel, 5 blue claw hermit crabs, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 coral banded shrimp. I do 20 percent weekly water changes and can never get my nitrates below 25. Im going to buy another bag of argonite and pull all my live rock out...

Believe me, its a pita. Dont take apart the trim at all, its structural for the tank. If you happen to put it together wrong or weaker than origional then it could fail and you could end up with a couple chopped up fingers like me. The way i would go about doing this is fill the tank up till you...

yeah hopefully. thanks for your help anyways.

Yeah im thinking about getting rid of him and adding another clownfish in his place. he picks on little george (hor-hay lol my clown) but it seems to be getting better now that he is getting used to him. Im kinda worried about getting another clown incase the other clown doeasnt get along with him.

Im half tempted to tell you your tank has already cycled.. by the diotom blooms and the fact that the shrimp pretty much deteriorated. But if you are testing your water and never saw a spike, you cant be sure. i would tell you to add a couple larger peices of shrimp in some pantyhose and test...

I really want a LMB but im not sure if he would survive in my tank. Can anybody tell me if he will live alongside a coral banded shrimp, a peppermint shrimp, 5 hermit crabs, a yellow tail damsel, and a clownfish all in a 4 month old 30 gallon? Lots of rocks for him to hide in, almost 60 pounds...

Ok so how long should i wait inbetween adding a 1/4 of sand?

so i have decided i want a deep sand bed. i only have maybe an inch and a half of argonite in my tank now, but im wondering how i go about adding more sand to an already inhabited tank? do i do it slowly like a cup a day? or is there some fancy tool too add sand to the bottom without causing a...

so theu are like something small to leave on all night?

sorry for an off topic question, but yesterday i added a clownfish and a coral banded shrimp to my tank and today i have an ammonia spike and my nitrates are about 25 to 30. should i tough it out and not do a water change or should i do it soon.

well im surfing here over my phone right now, but ill try that later. what about l.e.d. lights? they are cheap and give off a lot of light, without alot of heat. any thoughts on those?

yeah well i was considering this because in a 30 gallon, having two powerheads, a heater, and a filter looks cluttered and unnatural. maybe someday ill put a real stand under it and add a sump/refugium. and since this is my first saltwater tank, im pretty sure i wont be able to help myself and...

only about 4 months now. 40 pounds of base rock got added a couple days ago, so i know its way too soon to be thinking about this. but i was also wondering about if it is a problem not having a sump/refugium or a skimmer. basically later on down the line i want to run 100 bio filter. no skimmer...

just a quick qeustion, when can i get rid of my mechanical filtration? if i have 56 pounds of live/base rock in my 30 gallon tank, and enough flow to keep up the 20x rate, is it ok to not even have a mechanical filter?