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Originally Posted by thirty6 where in NJ? i work in bergen county, live in essex... if you can drop price a bit i may be interested pit_136@hotmail.com Nice to find another essex county guy here... What are the details on that skimmer btw?

Oh I am a firm believer in the live rock cycle method now. I had put in food and some seed culture bacteria to get it started and it was takin a little bit. Went to the store, got my live rock, added it, and wham next day they whole darn cycle was there. Now all the levels dropped off except...

Originally Posted by jayeden i am going to do a water change tomorow, and when re adding water, will buy the pre mixed ( i assume RO) water from big als...that way im not adding any moer tap water....and as for brown stuff....it will go away on its own eventually...or turns to green...and then...

Originally Posted by jayeden yes....salt went in, 2 hours later lr went in....1 hour later clown went in...is still living..active...i assume healthy? and does eat and interact.. Hmmm.... watch those levels and keep up the water changes. The 5 others refers to five more fish? Really watch...

Originally Posted by jayeden yes, was tap water, added red sea salt to 1.025 , filtered for 2 hours, added 40 lbs live rock and a clown fish, then 1 week later added 5 more... :S .....have a ruined the fish for sure? WAIT! The clown went in on day one after the water was in the tank for two...

What about the 7.8 pH, because I still have that too. The skimmer is now running and I'm waiting for it to break in and give good foam production. If properly acclimated will the fish still do ok in the 7.8?

Originally Posted by rad Thanks chipmaker, I was a little discouraged by eaglewonj's post because he had just started cycling with lr a few days ago and Ive been cycling for nearly two weeks now. Im definately not going to throw in a dead shrimp instead I think Im going to go to my lfs and get...

Call it about a week now, but the live rock was only added a few days ago. Right after which I saw a spike in ammonia, nitrites and nitrates. But now all of them have dropped a little (most likely due to the new salt water I had to add to make up for the volume the skimmer drew off now that...

Originally Posted by rad So I just talked to my lfs and my guy there, he has a 10g biocube, says that my 13 lbs of live rock was almost cured when I got it. He said there still would have been a little spike but I probally missed it and my tank could support life at this point. My only problem...

Originally Posted by ol'salty Harold's is the name of the place. I think we were in Edison?? We were in for a wedding. We didn't know this place was like this. That pancake was like 14 dollars. One of the sandwiches was around 40 bucks but would feed a few. Check out this pic of desert. I am not...

Originally Posted by ol'salty Me and one of my hobbies. lol This place was a deli in Jersey that had huge portions. That was a pancake. The side of bacon was about a pound of bacon. That place rocked. Also, i would like to say how much I appreciate you guys in the military and what you do. Too...

Originally Posted by peckhead everyone is gonna say dont cylce with fish. every tank cycles differently My tank scared me like that too. I used fish food to spike ammonia, nothing for days, no ammonia showed up. After about a week I got 0.25-0.50ish, never got up to 1, but now I have...

I have a prizm deluxe and found that it had a little pinhole leak after a few days on the side where the two panels joined. It was leaking one drop at a time, a drop every few seconds. A bead of superglue i think it was up the joint took care of it. It was on the outside so i don't fear any...

Originally Posted by Bang Guy Yes, start the skimmer now. The organic decay is the source of your low PH. Don't worry about PH during the cycle. Thank you, pH had me worried as it was the only parameter I couldn't seem to get in line. I got SG, Temp, and now the ammonia and subsequent nitrite...

The tank is a fresh cycling one, so the rotting material at the moment is the fish food as ammonia source. Also so fresh live rock in there that may have some die off, but all the better to provide ammonia i guess. At the moment the protein skimmer is not running as the tank cycles. I may...

I have crushed coral on the bottom of the tank (20 gallon) and the pH seems to be stuck at 7.8ish. I tried adding some buffer that would bring it up to as high as 8.3, but it doesn't change (well it does briefly after the buffer is added.) So basically two questions, does CC buffer to 7.8 and...

I have a B.S. in Biology from Montclair State University in NJ and I am currently working on my M.S. in Molecular Biology there as well. I get my saltwater funding by working as a lab instructor for freshman biology at MSU.

Originally Posted by peter1215 absolutey fish probably has the nicest fish selection in NJ but get ready to pay lots of $$$$. Tropiquarium is about 11/2 from North Jersey. There is also a place just north of NJ in NY called Beitals aquarium. they also have nice fish (havent been there in...

Geez, old thread but still a good point. I trust my local fish store. Large staff, immense inventory and every single tank and fish is absolutely pristine. The staff are all trained by the owner who is immensely knowledgable. The store is MAC certified too. I trust them to tell me what to...