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You usually just cant toss a freshwater fish into a saline environement...Mollies can be acclimated..but it is not an instant process...scratch the mollie idea all together... We live and learn..so therefore there is no stupidity...if someone tells you not to do it and you do it..then you...

Check to see if the lights have an internal fuse somewhere...if they dont take them back to where you bought them...

Your live sand in the ziploc is dead now...rinse it well if you decide to add it in the tank... If you have a 100#'s of LR...it will provide some life forms for your sand...some of the worms and other critters probably would only show up in actual LS...the 25# deal here is a good example...it...

How old is the tank? What is in the tank?

Anyone ever regenerate the Anion resins from Kent for their DI system? Any pointers with the Sodium Hydroxide?

Welcome... Seems like you already have too many tangs in that 55 already....

The green water is the results of an on going algae bloom caused by a sudden increase in nutrients... How old is the tank? What are the water readings? Changing water will lower the nutrient level providing you use water which doesn't contain nutrients (phosphates...

Buy some Amquel +...it does good for amonia and nitrates...

Your floors will hold it just fine...I believe the standard is 500 pounds per sq foot or something like that...

I put one of a couple of "T"'s above the outlet side of my return pump...above the "T"'s is a ball valve...each line between the ball valve and pump have ball valves...one line goes to the sink for the sole purpose of water changes...i close a couple of valves...open one...turn pump back on and...

How old is the building?

I would think that live rock is live rock...the actual rock composition would be the differences between them...that and the depth it is collected from. But then...I could be wrong.

What I am finding with one of my own systems is when the ph is low and the alk is high...there is an ionic imbalance in the system...to correct mine...i did a 30-40% water change in the morning and another the next morning...apparently this has repaired the problem... My ph was in about the same...

Post some pics of it...curious as to they look.

How are you building your own tank?

What type of lights and what was the previous ballast?

Go back to the fulham site and use their find your ballast option..it will ask a few questions, then recommend the ballast(s)...then find the 7 and read it..it will have wiring diagram for it towards the bottom...

Dad pays the [hr] ...how could he have been wrong?

The things you are wanting to do will only control the ich on the fish...you are not treating the condition of the tank...creatures removing the encapsulated parasites from fish are only killing one stage of the parasites life cycle...

Go to the disease forum and read about the ich... And prior to getting anymore frustrated (aka "pissed")...think to the precautions you took to prevent the introduction of the parasite to begin with... I realize this doesn't help you any with your current situation...it is simply a re-inforcer...