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My chemipure and purigen is in the middle chamber below my chaeto. Remove the false floor and the bioballs and put it in there.

They sell little baggies at your LFS. If not, they have some at ***** or PetsMart I buy the bottled purigen and then purchase little bags there. Just make sure that the bag is closed and tied before putting it in the tank. The tiny beads of the purigen will go everywhere. Also, before you put it...

If you don't mind emptying every day and getting a new air block every month then it is fine. The best? No. It works fine in my 14g but I don't know how it would handle in a 20.

Cleaner shrimp are not good cleanup crew right now. They eat leftover fish food. You need some snails and hermit crabs. Get a few margarita or astrea snails, few ceriths, few nassarius, and a turbo if your rock work is sturdy. Turbos are big and knock over stuff but they sure do munch through...

It would have to be overnighted so that will cost near $30 and I bought the chaeto for $10. You really might find it cheaper near you:( Maybe ask your LFS to get you some when they get in their shipment of fish? If not, then I would be fine selling it to you. I just don't want to make you pay a...

I'll sell you a bag of chaeto. I have to cut mine in half every couple of weeks.

It sounds like you are good to go. Add in your clean up crew, snails, a few hermits, and a couple of emerald crabs and let them go at it for about a week. Then, check your levels and add your first fish! Trates are a little high, I would look into making the middle chamber a refugium to get your...

I don't think any fish would do great in a 2.5 gallon. That is just so constricting. I would just put a little shrimp in there, couple of snails, and maybe an emeral crab.

If I ever see something that I don't know what in the world it is, I capture it and keep it in a QT tank until I can ID if it is a good thing or a bad thing. I saw one of the weirdest looking snails that looked more like a worm when it was stretched out so I plucked it out but then found out it...

Originally Posted by PEZenfuego I agree. However these were not the standards I placed. I made no mention of a sterile environment. I made mention of an environment in which the necessary bacteria is ubiquitous. This bacteria will culture on the once-sterile rock. But it isn't bacteria that...

I already have my maroon and goby. I can't get rid of my babies!

If a sterile rock is placed in a sterile tank in a sterile environment, and a sterilized food source is placed in the tank...there will be NO bacteria propagation.

Bacteria can sporulate when conditions are bad and then germinate when conditions are good. I am not a marine biologist but I would bet that there is some dormant bacteria on those rocks if they were just allowed to dry and not bleached or cleaned. I would say that a dried rock after a month...

Yeah my watchmen goby watches me and isn't afraid when I put my hand in the tank...neither are the shrimp. The clown gets mad though. :D

For my newest tank, I got a 5 gallon bucket, put all my sand in there, added salt water, and mixed up everything. The debris and all the nasty stuff floats to the top and you skim it out with a fish net and then get the sand cup by cup and add it to your rank. Instead of the water being cloudy...

Originally Posted by PEZenfuego So a water and gasoline mixture would leave you with pure gasoline upon evaporation? Uh...no. As we all know gas is more volatile than water. You will not always get pure water upon distillation. It has to do with what is in the source water. Although, in this...

Yeah...they look so much alike to me. It looks amazing though!

Where did Lorene go???

Boiling water does nothing to the elements in the water. The vapor released from boiling water is pure H2O, everything left in the pot is what extra crap was in the water. When you boil water in a pan and let all the water boil off, only the chemicals will be left in your pan. So, boiling water...

Is that a ritteri anem?