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Calvindo... Read up a little on osmotic pressure, absorbtion and so on...you will find your answers there. I will grant that FW dips can be stressfull, but as for acquiring new fish, I find it less stressfull in the long one. Even prior to a QT, I dip them...and then I use (as needed)...

That sand should be ok..and it will take a couple of days for it to clear up...

Calvindo.. FW dipping a coral doesnt really have a purpose...not when they have numerous coral iodine dips available... As for fish...putting a fish with attached encapsulated cyst as an example into a freshwater environment causes an enormous absorbtion rate because of the osmotic pressure...

If you are going to go with the 2 400 watt 10k bulbs...then you would probably want the super actinics...I have the URI super actinics myself, but I am sure the Coralife actinics are just as good...both are the 03 Actinics. One thing with the 5 foot long tank...some recommend using one MH light...

Seems you are pretty new to marine aquarua... If I may offer some advice... Slow way down. Everything with this hobby is deliberate, well thought out and executed. The faster one goes, the closer to disaster they come. Knowledge is the key to successful marine keeping. Hind sight is a sure fire...

I have been using Crystal Sea for about 1.5 years now...no problems...Thomas said it was lacking, but I do not know what it is lacking in.

The carbon based filters prior to the RO membrane are supposed to remove the chlorine...if I recall correctly...chlorine will destroy a membrane...

Interesting usage of specific terms and titles there NM...

Some branded salt company did the s-15 report...of course their salt was the best and all else stunk...imagine that...Aqua-Craft or something like that.

I have and use 2 Little Giants..one is a series 4, and the other the 5..the 5 has a slight noise...but the 4 is near perfectly quiet... I am extremely happy with the both of them.

You could probably put one 96 watter in, but not two...unless the ballast is rated for 192 watts or more...

Power compacts are a newer version of flourescent lighting...they claim to be more intense then the VHO, but I have both and like the VHO better...VHO is another version of a flourescent light...dont quiet know the particulars, but the VHO is a brighter more intense, and higher wattage lighting...

Crystal Sea...

You can also look to purearagonite.com for aragonite sand...they are reasonable considering the shipping fees...then seed that with the 50 pounds of LS from here.

The milky color cloudiness could be a bacterial bloom which should subside in a couple of days.

How did you acclimate the fish to your tank? Did they have any symptoms, flashing, spots, eyes, and so on?

What do you do with all those salt buckets you get your salt in? When you go to look at rock..fill it with some saltwater and take it with you...

You should maybe consider staying with freshwater tanks...saltwater tanks require alot more balanced of a system...we try to replicate in our little enclosed systems what ma nature has had millions of years to perfect...water being the most important of this eco system...you can use tap water...

I am fully aware of what the cryptocaryon irritan is...I am also aware that leaving the tank fishless for 4 weeks will probably not kill the entire parasite population off...I learned this from my own experiences... As for the one week cure...no such thing...ich has a life cycle which would not...

So if the infected fish is in the QT with hyposalinity...what is treating the infestation of the main tank?