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Fish appear pretty healthy, but i noticed this today on my coral beauty. Its eye is kinnda imflamed and puffed out a little, its also just a wee bit white. I was thinking ich so i lookd at my other fish. Naso Blonde is okay, but my Kole Tang and a black/white damsil both have a tiny white spot...

I finished cycle in my 180 4 days ago. I put on a Sealife Systems 350 Skimmer and ran it for 2 days. Put out foam and gunk (watery gunk) (about 10 oz) over 2 days. I put in 2 fish. Kole and Blonde Naso Tang. More foam 3rd day. On the 4th, no foam. In the coloum, its just bubbling water. I...

I have a 180 which is in the middle of its cycle (2 weeks) I have 70lbs of base and 30lbs of live rock which has been in there for 2 weeks . I have 50 lbs of LR arriving Fri from SWF.com. I am wondering what are the procedures of adding it in. Should I cure in seperate container? If so, how...

i used a wrench with-some- pressure. Is that okay? should i loosen up?

well, im going to walmart right now to get a lvl, and some shims, hope walmart has them

I have a 180 gallon tank that has built in over flows. (Reef ready type. I filled it up to point where the water begins to over flow and the water is all going into one over flow. Please don't tell me that the tank isnt level! Arrghh, if thats the case, how am i going to level it with the sand...

well, it took a long time for someone to reply so i went ahead and made all the water and its all in the tank with the sand( very little cloudiness ) right up to the wet dry. Now i down know if i should fill the sump to the line and then continue to add watter with the pumps on, or just fill...

anyone?

I have a 180 gallon tank. have about 100 gallons of water ready to be put in and 150 lbs of sand rinsed and ready to be put in. I know im going to add sand, and then that water. Question is, do i put water into the wet/dry up to the line, or do i just fill and fill till it hits the over flows...

where do i find the good live sand? Also. I not really uSIg hte sand yet. My tank is empty. No water. No sand. Im trrying to save a little money b.c i dont want to buy 180 pounds of caribsea.. I have the 3 bags that i do (1 carib sea, 2 agralive) b.c i got a steal from a friend who was going to...

How white is the qickcrete play sand? If its decent, could i.... small later of playsand, then my Carib sea agronite,and then my live sand on top?

the whole sand stuff is geting me frustrated. I have a 180, and im doing reef. I dont really care much for a DSB, i looking for a 2inch. I already have the follwing bags. 1 40 lbs CaribSea 2 20lbs bags of Argralive 80 lbs total so far. Looking for like 160 ish I have the choice of the folloing...

Originally posted by SteelChromis . But Glass, if placed correctly, is much better. . What is correctly placed glass?

no, this is a completly new setup. I couldnt find any type of good sand so i guess i will be buying sand from the LFs. some live, some dry. Ive decided im only going to do a 2'' bed.

I couldnt find any southdown, oldcastle, yardright. I found playsand but its really brown. The sand at walmart looked like cheese. I think im going to get the stuff from LFS and only do a 2'' sand bed. Will that be Okay?

its 30 cesnts for 5 gallons. The machine lits and shows pictures of each process the water goes thru. It says Reverse Osmosis!, says nothign about distilation. Also, said water is passes along Uv lights.

Originally posted by CindySki i am in palm coast, my lfs told me to go to winn dixie's machine, i have not done this yet because my tank is not set up. i was just planning to go to wal-mart and getting distilled though. or are the machines cheaper? by the way lilcheen, where do you get most...

Originally posted by Thomas712 If your find your sand and your going to cycle it from scratch then you can just place your sand in the tank and add saltwater, may be cloudy for days but you will have to wait for it to cycle anyway, so just let her rip. No need for the garbage bag. You might as...

so i could use it if it passes everything? and if it doesnt haver the chemicals i could use it? is this an okay alternative to RO water. I cant afford 180 gallons of it nor the unit right now.

well?