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Anyways I'll be tagging along, I'm in a similar process of set up right now on a 5.5 gallon. I'm curious, do yo uwant the chaeto/mangrove to be in the main tank? Would you maybe be dividing it with some plexiglass for two seperate portions to the tank?

Originally Posted by Curry All I did was remove the media basket and cut part of it to fit the front so nothing flows out (cheato) and that was it. Filter, Carbon, Chemi-Pure and then my cheato is right on top. You will have to google "ac70 refugium" since we cant post links... its the second...

Well I think they have bag dates and expiration dates, so you can tell how fresh it is. I believe the live bag sand has bacteria and worms in it.

Originally Posted by mastertech AHHH. thanks i knew i was missing something from the equation. new clean sand (not live) would reduce ammonia spikes. any other input? I belive you would want new live sand (which would imply cleaner than what may be accumulated in an established tank). [However...

Originally Posted by meowzer I think you should start with some cuc first....you can get 1 turbo...I have 1 in my 29G...I don;t live in an apartment ...lol...but I have my stuff delivered to where I work well I do have two nass snails and 3 hermits that I got last weekend when my diatom...

Originally Posted by meowzer YAYYYYY...what's first? Well I need more rockwork, so I think I'm going to look for a mid size piece acan. Probably something with red in it. I CANNOT find cerith snails anywhere in Orange County, so I'm going to have to order some from SWF, how have peoples...

Did a 1 gallon water change today, here's the count; SG: 1.025 PH: 8.0 DkH: around 8.4 Ammonia: 0.0 Nitrite: 0.0 I buffered the Alkalinity which should raise the pH a bit. But the levels are at the bottom for acceptable levels so I think it should be ok to buy some livestock.

That's what I thought you had based on the first description. I find those in my filter pads all the time.

Originally Posted by Curry They do have antennae... I also spotted something else... similar to what I described above but they are almost transparent and it looks like a red striped going down its back. Very hard to tell... I saw it in an empty hermit shell moving single grains of sand out of...

Originally Posted by BTLDreef Good luck with the build. I just wanted to comment about the pistol/sexy shrimp compatibility. As long as the sexy shrimps have an LPS like a torch or an anemone, more than likely the pistol will leave them be. I have a pistol/yasha goby combo in my 14G. I...

Originally Posted by Curry Ok so its not a bristleworm... Its kinda gray and it moves fasttt like a centipede... any ideas? Looks like a gray centipede but much smaller... I noticed a bigger one maybe 1/4 inch big... its butt was kinda curved downward... It looks like a horizonal J... Its...

Ok so I'm coming up on two weeks, still got a diatom bloom. I'm going to test all my parameters again this weekend and probably do a 1 gallon water change. Then get some cerith snails to round out my CUC. If my levels are good I'm going to look into ordering a pom pom crab, and maybe get a...

Sweet! Is that black sand? How's the nano going?

While we are on the topic of chaeto. I've got a 24 nano with chaeto in my fuge. The chaeto "ball" has quadrupled in size since I set up a fuge in the sump area maybe five months ago. I've heard that chaeto doesn't technically export nutrients unless it's cropped periodically. Anybody have any...

Nice diagrams! I'd probably try and corrugate the top of your pipe like you have shown. It should provide more aeration that way.

yah, don't add fish. (it will work, but then your stuck with a damsel or burn the gills of whatever you add if they survive, alot of times other fihs will develop ich too) you can ghost feed a couple of pellets every few days to get your ammonia started.

Originally Posted by troy989 im not gona give rock but ill give him water i cant give him sand i have crushed coral and i hate it i want live sand but i cant change it... im buyin live sand for 90g ima give him some of that I set up a 5.5 gallon tank with existing tank water, and my cycle is...

Ok, so I noticed a small diatom bloom last night. This morning it was already cleaned up from the sand. So that means the ammonia phase of the cycle should be diminished and moving to an increase in nitrite right? (this is only my second tank set up, exhibiting my signs of newb)

haha, whew, these hole in the wall builds always make me nervous! Typical salt is about 1/2 cup per gallon I believe. So it takes ALOT of salt for a big tank. Most end up getting 3 to 5 gallon buckets of salt for making salt for a set up thats that size. Check the brand and try to find if its...

So the first thing I saw when I saw your cut was, hmmm hopefully that wasn't a load bearing partition wall, did you look at the existing structure at all, since you didn't add any new jams or headers after cutting out all those studs? Otherwise the project looks exciting, should be interesting...