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wow good job! they rarely propugate (sp?) in captivity

I had let it build up and was a pain in the rear - I did use a scotchbrite worked ok but alot of elbow grease involved! Since I have a mag float cleaner - I run it around the glass every 2-3 days keeps everything nice and clean.

1 thing on the parameters you posted - Your specific gravity is 1.022 - Alk is different. Alk is related to Ph - what are these readings - Alk and Ph?

I've seen alot of posts on here from people that used these bacteria additions. They are always having post cycling problems. On my 54gl I used 4 large grocery shrimp and left em there - never took em out - took about 3 1/2 weeks for the cycle - huge ammonia and nitrite spikes - but everything...

Yes change the water out - your not cycling but curing - allowing the dieoff outside the main tank - waterchanges are part of the curing process. You want good water with movement for curing

Well guessing here but around 90% will only eat pods. There are rarities that will accept frozen foods as well - luckily mine are. Both my scooter and mandarian accept frozen - yes scooters eat pods too. If you have a healthy refugium, it might support enough pods for 2 in a 85gl. Breeding...

I OD'd a tank with buffer - had high Ph and Alk. Test your Alk also as it will probabally be high too. The only way to lower these is water changes. If your using RO water the Ph will be very low. Maybe like a 10% change every other day to get it down.

I wouldn't add any magic cycle stuff - it doesn't do a thing except throw off your readings. Nothing is going to magically cycle the tank. 1 thing though is ya shouldn't have taken out the shrimp Leave em in - the ammonia will go to zero while they are in - they turn into a jellyfish looking...

About the only way to tell the difference on the psychedelic ones is by the first dorsal spine - the males will be very long wheras the females are short. Its best to stick to 1 variety and if a pair is requested then get a mated pair 1 male and 1 female. My mandarian and my scooter had a...

I'd suggest sand for your substrate- 4" minimum 6" max- and you can hold off on the skimmer for now - it won't be needed for several months - this is a slowwww hobbie. The tank will need to cycle before adding your fish and on that - I wouldn't put the trigger in there - to agressive. might...

Ammolock and detox won't bring down ammonia but rather change the chemistry to where it isn't leathal to inhabitants. On the Ph - I had OD'd with a buffer and skyrocketed my Ph. Check your Alk - I would immagine its high as well. The only way to correct this is with waterchanges. I'm thinking...

If it is a mogul ?sp? socket you can but you would need to change the ballast for a MH ballast.

I ordered a u-build friday night and sunday my puter crashed bad. Well, I had to go to the Local puter store for supplies monday and didn't get puter up till Very early tuesday morning. Needless to say I missed the e-mail that I was receiving my shipment tuesday. After 3 1/2 hours sleep I was...

Puter suffered a nasty crash and among other things I lost my bookmarks. Specifically looking for some sites that were posted for seahorse sales - NOT Ocean Rider - I know them. These had the small horses - but I'm after the sea lettuce and other algeas they were selling. Getting some Ocean...

Gettin a pool started and the designer today said it is appx 20000 gallons. Lol to bad the wife wouldn't let me mix up salt water in it haha.

I bought mine from them about 3 months ago - ick and my purple tang lol - thing works like a champ - prolly the best 80 bucks I've spent in this hobbie!

cukes will spit out thier intestines in defense. they grow em back. The sand sifters are really easy and no problem - well - less ya get a mysterious hitchiker within one as I did lol. A glass fish that lives inside the cuke.

I just posted another LR cycling reply - cure it yourself in a rubber trashcan or the likes and a powerhead. That will rid the die-off outside the tank and won't create a cycle. HTH

you might want to consider 'curing' the LR ordered outside the tank - just use a rubber trashcan or the likes and a powerhead for circulation. Just an alternate to re-cycling the tank. This would allow the addition of some inverts now.

Not sure on the glass fish but I would immagine. Mollies used to be used to test drip acclimation and tank parameters. They were cheap and did fine in saltwater. If you had your drip to fast they would die. Was better to kill a mollie than a $$$ saltwater specimen. Corse the drip method is...