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last porton of 2nd recipie So we have to decide, do we want to match magnesium to the sodium, or to the chloride, or to an average of them, or something else? To be sure to prevent magnesium depletion, I selected the most conservative option, and added enough magnesium so that it is not depleted...

2nd recipie continued Part 3: The Magnesium Sulfate Dissolve a 64 ounce container of Epsom salts (about 8 cups) in enough purified fresh water to make 1 gallon total volume. This solution is added much less frequently than the other two parts. Each time you finish adding a gallon of both parts...

This is for the 2nd recipie Recipe #2 In this recipe you make 3 stock solutions. Two are used frequently, and one is only used occasionally to balance things out. You can mix and store the solutions in any all plastic or glass container. Plastic 1-gallon milk cartons (typically made of HDPE...

Recipe #1 In this recipe you make 3 stock solutions. Two are used frequently, and one is only used occasionally to balance things out. You can mix and store the solutions in any all-plastic or glass container. Plastic 1-gallon milk cartons (typically made of HDPE, high density polyethylene) can...

Not sure how this will all work out since your not allowed to post links here but we'll give it a try and see what happens..just bear with me on this. I am not about to copy paste and edit stuff like image texts etc.... The only materials required are calcium chloride, baking soda (from a...

Originally Posted by Phixer Be sure your edges are perfectly smooth and flat. I have found the best way to prep edges consistently is with a CNC router. I use a milling machine. However a CNC or milling machine would virtually leave most folks out of luck. It can be done perfectly fine with a...

I would not worry about heavy metals if your buying it premixed from the shop. Its not uncommon for those snails to fall off a rock or glass side and land in a position and not be able to right themselves. I seen then lay like that many times and its normal. Lots of them are not very active at...

Originally Posted by xDave The one thing that will be different is specific gravity. If they use a swing arm meter it will be inaccurate because of the temperature difference. Why is taking a water sample in when you return a dead fish a joke? The death of a fish is quite often directly related...

Originally Posted by sepulatian Easy chipmaker, this person is new and he never stated that he had anything alive in his system yet. Makes no difference. They still should have bought and had a test kit on hand when they initiated the cycle of the tank so they could monitor it.

Been using homemade 2 part for a few months now and its great, and best of all its identical to ESV B-Ionic 2 part but at a fraction of the cost. My cal and alk levels have remained just as stable with this homebrew mix as it did with commercially available mix. Its not really homebrew in...

I normally do not get into this stuff, but IMNSHO Rosie needs to roll over and die. Never did like that &*&(*^% and probbaly never will.

Ph is not worth the trouble to take in for a test. Why are you having your water tested by the lfs......I do hope you have test kits......They should have been among the first items purchased when yu bought the tank and such or at least once cycling wsa started and before fish/ critters were...

No need for anayhting but rock and or sand. At most I may lay a piece of rock down on a piece of glass and see how it lays and if there is any realy high pressure points I may knock em off but mnost times sand works just fine. Place some sand dowen and then twist press wiggle rock down into...

Well if its yur first endeavor with acrylics I would suggest making some other projects first and then you be the judge on weather or not you can do it. Edges have to be cut smooth and square and fit poperly. Acrylics is not hard to work with, nor is it any harder to work with than wood IMHO...

The thing of condern with that container is its height as compared to its surface area. Lots of height as compared to surface area availablility to allow for gasseous exchange of O2, but for perhaps a goby shrimp pair of a couploe of sexy shrimp provided yu do water changes I do not see any...

I myself am a PICO fanatic. And what size yur talking about does not fit i the NANO size its actually a PICO size tank. Go for it.its very doable. I have em down to 3 quarts in capacity and at one time had em in a 1 quart container as well. Not much needed for filter, but the Aqua Clear Mini-20...

Its the color of the light and its kelvin. Just looked it up to re-verify it in my pocket reference book...

If it was oil it would be on the top since oil floats on water. Its just the salinity difference you see, which sort of forms layer(s) until its mixed thouroughly.

I use nothing but sand I collect from the gulf of mexico. Been doing it for years and never had a problem Samew for the water its all I use and have used for years and never had a problem. I know lots of folks that do the same thing with localy collected sand and water....I think its all over...

Look at it likew this. There is probbaly more foks using the cheapest kits they can find and keeping their fish perfectly well. If those kits were junk or not close enough for hobby use then the world would be full of T'd off folks killing their fish with inferior test kits. I htink most ofks...