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i have a tank that has rocks in it that I recently bleached. Now the phosphates are high and I'm getting the brown diatoms (new tank all over again I guess). My question is.. are the phosphates a result of the bleach possibly still leaching out? and are the high phosphates to blame for me not...

OK... i need a piece that will allow a max-jet pump to bring in air as well as water to the intake of the cpr.. dont know if this is a part missing from the cpr or if it comes with a max-jet pump

hey thanks guys... looks like this is the not-so-old SR2 that is an in sump model... that worked out great...as I have a 30 gallon sump on my 55. Do you think I could make it like the CPR 2 with the addition of the pvc return?

I have a cpr bak-pak 2 that has worked great for years... today I found a generation 1 bak pak for $5 and couldnt pass it up. What is odd to me is that there is no outtake like the version 2. Can anyone help me out or show me a picture of the factory setup? I'm thinking of drilling a hole and...

I have a 7 month old 55 gallon that I've treated with coppersafe. The tank was an aggressive tank with live rock and live sand. Now, I have gotten rid of the aggressive fish and plan on making this tank a reef tank. (i do have fish in the tank now) What should be my plan of action now? 1) remove...

as in a higher than it really is, false test? so my ammonia might be lower than .75?

just safe then sorry i guess... He was in the display tank and if it was, I figure the longer I left him there, the more I take the rest of ich getting in there and infecting the others... Being that the two specks disappeared right off today, I wonder if it was just sand. He's not scraping or...

just went home and did a 25% water change.. and the ammonia levels where at .8 and the copper 2.0 (coppersafe)

so just in the 10 minutes he was in the DT, you think he might have let some ich into the tank? I have a few tupperware containers at home... I will set that up tonight. And go and buy some water from the LFS for water changes over the weekend. Should I go home at lunch and check on the guy? He...

I purchased a yellow tang yesterday and acclimated him to the DT. (thoughts are still pending on the use of a QT tank as a pre DT measure) I thought he was looking good and all before I released him, but then I noticed two small white dots. For yellow tangs, isnt the ich usually black? Anyway...

its a biocube 8 with the 1 clown and a psudeochromis... I have never seen the 2 chasing each other... And they have been tank makes for some time now.. and before that they were in my old 30 gallon reef... It never looked like a torn fin or went away overnight.. It was started by the white bumps...

I have a clown that had white 'puss' around his left fin and it look like it was lymp. (whatever that disease is called) and I read that it would go away with good water cond. in about 4 wks. The white stuff has gone away, but the fin kept getting smaller. Today its gone! He swims mostly in...

i'm going to try and turn my FOWLR into a reef slowly... I have some small frags from my other tank that I'll introduce in hopes of my puffer and huma trigger leaving alone. Also I'll start trying a snail or 2 all though I've seen them eat nassarus in the past. Hit or miss with these guys...

anyone here have corals in their tank or inverts?

my little guy

yea..looks like some on the board say that the copper in the LR, LS, silicon thing is a wifes tale. I tested a while back after treatment and charcoal use and had a very low reading of copper, but I will also test it now and see if it is below the .04ppm or whatever it is that is safe. I know...

well I have a few copper test that i have used.(the ones I used while treating to monitor levels), but I have heard that just grabbing water from the tank and testing is not so accurate as it might not be in the 'free flowing' water but in the sandbed, etc. I hate to rid of all the rock. If the...

so I guess I'll wait on that bleaching rock thing... I will test for phosphates when I get home.. although I know that if there is algae then phosphates must be present and I can treat for that. I will also be doing a 10 gallon water change tonight as I will continue to try and get all the 'tap'...

that said... will I now have trouble with a reef being that there will still be copper 'leaking' out of the rocks? And how is it that I dont need to seed the tank? I would have though that all the living beneficial things would have died with the copper? the tank is 12" deep I think and the...

I have a tank that started off 9 months ago as a FOWLR Aggressive tank.. about 3 months into it I had ich and used copper knowing that my live sand and rock would have die off and be base rock. That worked out fine and that where I'm at today, a happy FO Aggressive tank. I now have given in to...