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beth i saw your homepage man you have a great looking fish tank is that really what you have in it and i hope i can get mine lookin half as good as yours excellent you know what your doing

also am using a refractometer i bought fromthis site and a calibrated digital ph meter

but untill i get my new salt im not dosing anymore also doing atleast a 20% waterchange as soon as i get the salt i forgot to tell you all i have a RODI water filter system as well at 1st i only used a facet filter but ive learnt my lesson

Originally Posted by Beth Siphoning the sand is the worst thing you can do, since you are also siphoning off your biofilter with it. How deep is the sandbed now, and post up your water readings. What type of sand did you use initially? What filters are you using, do you have a skimmer, and...

Originally Posted by stingrayman I had that on my sand bed. stop siphoning your sand bed out. replace your sand with the argonite sand. get a blue dot sandsifter or a latticed sandsifter. they are really cool fish and they sift out your sandbed. reef safe too. how big do they get? also were do...

Originally Posted by shannonranee The rest of the corals in the tank are doing good. No the fish have not been harassing it. Yes, I meant specific gravity. How do you down load a picture. I clicked on the insert image button but then it asks for a script prompt. I also tried to copy and...

Originally Posted by larryndana i'm sure you will find a wide range of opinions. I'd go for the cheaper of the two, which is oceanic....thats what i use. i'd go with tropic marin if i had an sps tank, other than that i don't see a big difference. the oceanic gives me high cal but i've got...

I JUST WANTED TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THERE INPUT IT HELPS!!!!! thanks again

well i ordered my salt OCEANIC and my substrate im going with 2 15lb bags of the CaribSea Aragonite Flamingo Reef Sand and i will add the first slowly then when i need more the other bag will be waiting man this hobby is expensive im even neglecting my bike more now but im trying my best to...

Originally Posted by spanko Ah yes. new tanks will tend to accumulate gunk and diatoms. Your tank is nice. Keep doing what you're doing. All will be well soon. thanks

Originally Posted by larryndana i'm sure you will find a wide range of opinions. I'd go for the cheaper of the two, which is oceanic....thats what i use. i'd go with tropic marin if i had an sps tank, other than that i don't see a big difference. the oceanic gives me high cal but i've got...

ok from reading and my testing ive come to the conclusion that instant ocean is not the way to go on a reef tank which sucks because before realizing this i bought another 150gallons worth but im going to make sure to get the best kind possible next time here are the 2 im looking at picking...

Originally Posted by spanko Where is the gunk coming from? Are you overfeeding? Looks like you need more clean up crew. Get some Nassirius snails and some Cerith snails. i have 20 nassairius 20 turbos snails 6 mexican turbos 60 some odd blue legged crabs they keep the rocks totally cleaned off...

Originally Posted by Bluemantr dont add sand all at once. Just a thin layer at a time. If you dont want to get that mess again try to get some flow goes over send. it is actually getting better i have the 850gph in front towards sand 250gph in front towards rear 270gph in back flowing through...

or this CaribSea Seaflor Super Reef Sand it has shells mixed in it

or possibly this it has coraline in the sand witch seems pretty cool

has anyone ever tried this kind of sand looks good i think its the same kind of stuff my LPS has in there 150gallon its black Tahitian Moon sand.

Originally Posted by peckhead get carbisea argonite...its not live, and its nice, and good :) can i see some pics on what it looks like in your aquarium please

Originally Posted by rbaldino Don't bother with live sand. Just buy some sand at the LFS and add it to the tank to replace what's been lost. check if i get more sand dont bother with LS just get normal sand thanks

Originally Posted by peckhead get carbisea argonite...its not live, and its nice, and good :) thanks i will look in to possibly getting some of this stuff i want to read more about it though