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Unless you dont rinse bleach completely off it could cause problems... Rinsing bleach off is not that difficult...if you dont smell the bleach then it is gone.

You should be able to use a flashlight with a medium to dark blue lens as well. This would better simulate a moon glow through the water then a red light. The only benefit that I am aware of to using a red lens is the red doesnt effect our night vision...but then, if you havent acclimated your...

Use both...alternate between them...

Ensure when you are letting your water set you keep it agitated with a pump or air...temp control is convenient for when the time comes to use it..it is already to temp. Aging allows a gas exchange to take place within the water itself.

Check your water chemisty...phosphates and nitrates...keep them as low as possible. Use RO/DI water if you already dont. Cleanup crew if you dont have one.

And once your micro algea uses its food source..it will die off, decompose thus creating its new food source... Water quality, usually phosphates and nitrates...use ro/di water. Lighting...check you lighting, replace if they are older...aging bulbs shift into the red end of the spectrum...

You should take advantage of your store ownership status and invest into a good wet/dry...with the amount of water we have in our tanks...they are almost a must have piece of equipment...

I am thinking you should collect on what you can. What if you didnt have a grounding probe? There are many what ifs here. Did they ask for the unit to be returned so as they can inspect it and try and determine the cause (defective design, materials or what have you)? It would seem to me a...

If you have two, 1 inch overflows feeding the refuge and only 1 inch flow out of the refuge...how would you expect a balanced system? You probably need to increase the flow out of the refuge past the flow to it...i.e...700gph into it..and maybe 750gph out...would prevent any bottlenecks... Your...

Dwarfs will most likely fight and/or stress each other and tankmates when more the one are in the same (smaller) tank.

Oh and a refuge is a setting of low pressure...low flow and out of the mainstream of the tank...most people use it to house macro algeas or other things for additional filtration as well as natural food growth, etc. usually th refuge is attached with a supply line from a sump and a return to the...

Regardless of what precautions you will take...changes as drastic as you are intending will create a cycle of some degree...I would still think it to be a large cycle... The efforts and ideas mentioned above will minimize some of the effects of a full cycle...but I believe you will still hav a...

That is too bad. Of course IO will probably say it was something you did...like contaminated mixing utinsils or something...if they do you good...that is great! Good luck

Anything that consumes O2 will add to your bio-load...

You were gone?

If I read your couple of posts correctly...you are trying to remove an UGF and switch from CC to sand? If this is the case...removing the UGF itself will cause a cycle...and I wouldnt be to sure about it being a mini cycle either as this is what flowed your water through the CC which was your...

Yeah..what he ^^^^ said.

Did you suffer a loss? What did you lose?

There is no (that I am aware of) freshwater dips as you are assuming. A FW dip is putting a marine fish in a temp controlled, dechlorinated pool of water with no salinity...leaving it there for about 3 minutes, then taking him out. There is no dipping as per the word dipping. None the less...you...

The RO portion will only remove a portion of all contaminents in a given water supply..this is accomplished through water being forced through a thin membrane filter... The DI either stand alone, or portion removes all negative and possitive ions from the water. This is done through...