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Trust us,,,Your salinity is fine...This is not what is stressing the tang,,If anything it is that ammonia..You need to try and figure out where that(ammo) is comming from.Asbuzz said"anything but ZERO is too much".. Have you added anything new to the tank recently??? Has anything diedin the past...

Three days is really rushing it.I was thinking more like a month or two to get it up to normal...No wonder yours died...

Reef lighting is not actually needed to keeplive rock.Although it does help. For a 55,you should have between 40-50lbs of live rock.This can be added allat one time,or a little bit(5-7lbs) per week till you have what you want...If added all at once,you may encounter a recycle in your tank.This...

The brine would be a MESS in that tank. Why not get it going,,,put a few lbs of rock and sand out of your home tank in it.Then add a small clow or two...This would be easy to care for and should work fine..Water changes also should be a breeze.Just bring in a gallon of water from your home tank...

I used superglue gel before.My overflow was also cracked at a seam,and the superglue has held for three years... You could also try aquarium safe silicone...Or get adhesive specially designed for bonding acylic.It is clear and real runny like superglue...

I have often wondered if it would be possible to slowly acclimate a placo to salt...If so,it sure would be a ground breaking addition to cleanup crews..You could also make ALOT of money till people figure out how it is done...Maybe I'll try it sometime...

Even if you could get MH over that smalltank,the heat grom the bulb would probably cookwhatever you have in there...

If it is just dryrock,that didn't come out of water,then just wash it off and toss it in yourtank..Curing is only needed for live rock.

For the ammount of money you will spend on that CPR model,you could build/DIY an awsome one,twice the size under your main tank... All you need is an overflow,a return pump(small and low power),and a cheep glass tank... For lighting a 10 dollar flourescent light fixture from the hardware...

"you were told about the mantis shrimp"????Did he tell you there was a mantis in the rock you bought????If not I wouldn't worry too much about it,they are not found in every piece of rock out there... Why on earth would you want to clean off the Rock??? Those "critters" are what you want...That...

By the way,I didn't mean to harsh at all with that post...After reading it,it could be taken that way,That was not my intent at all....

I have many diferent types of rock in my tank,and I think it looks great...By all means add a variety of rock,the diferent shapes and textures look good.Try finding some good tonga shelf rock.This stuff is too cool looking...It's probably my favorite of all the types of rock...

If you don't have an algaeproblem,I'll bet there are no phosphates in the tank...Although a test kit for them is a good thing to have,it's not really needed...

You really should hold off on doing anything at all(including water changes) to the tank till the cycle is compleatly done.That is till the ammo and nitrites have spiked and both have been zero for a couple weeks.Even then a water change is not reallneeded till the nitrates rise above...

If it is an iron stand with four legs,,Then YES you can just shim under the two legs at the low end... If you have a cabinet style stand it is a bit more complicated.You must shim it all the way across the front and back of the tank so you don't cause the stand to sag in the center...This...

I doubt if the lighting or iodine has anything to do with it.Probably just weak algae. How about too much circulation in the 'fuge???

Ther are a couple explanations to this one. SWfish is currently reworking the store,so new pictures will be up soon... And you really should know what you are buying before you buy it.If you don't even know what a fish looks like,you havn't done enough homework to properly care for it... Buying...

It's not actually the water that needs to cycle.It's the new substrate and the filter media.That is where the bacteria lives that needs to be established.And why a tank cycles.. You would be better off if you could add some of the sand and rock from the other established tank as well as the...

About 1-2 gallons per day in my 130... And just to add to your list of useless information..Fish don't actuall drink water.Although they may gulp some during feeding.They absorb any water they need through thier skin...

If you restrict the flow,you will also be restricting the air proporcinatly(sp?) The skimmer itself will give no restriction at all... You really should have the skimmer setup with it's own pump.Just pumpthe water out of the sump,,into the skimmer..then back into the sump near the pumpthat...