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try this. I use 10 rubber maid tubs. I use one with a small power head and heater to mix my salt water. when I go to do my change I have another rubber maid tub of the same size and use the power head with a peice of tubbing i got from home depot and hook that to the power head. I put the...

last time I cycled a tank I went the fresh seafood department and spoke to the guy when they were getting ready to take some older shrip off the shelf and discard. they gave me about 3 jubo ones and I put them in the tank for about 1 to 2 days and amonia went up fast. I to had live sand and...

I was killing off some unwanted hitchhikers and knocked over an entire bottle of opened joes juice. It made my tank look like a snow globe for about a 1/2 hr and I was sure I killed everything in it, but all was ok!

instead of shiphon the water buy a cheap power head and go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get some clear tubbing that will fit the power head or water pump. drop that in main tank and pump water to what ever you are changing water to and then take the pump out of main tank and put it in tub of...

sounds like corilne alage. This is what makes the live rock have all the color. Usally only thing you can do is buy a good scraper and clean off the glass. I have one of those that have changable blade inserts and the metal one works great for this. I have gotten to the point I only clean it...

I use a 10 gallon tank/ tuperware tub with power head and heater. I mix and let it set overnight and check to make sure its same salinity as the main tank. I use r/o water for mixing salt. after I let it sit overnight i have a small pump and bought clear tubbing from Lowes and hooked up to...

Really I would not put in clean up crew until the cycle is complete! the purpose of the cycle is to spike amonia which bacteria grow to convert to nitrite then a second sorce of bacteria grow to convert that to nitrates. The clean up crew durring the cycle can be killed off by the spike of...

Sorry it took so long to get back with you. The way most people acomplish this is after the cycle start the skimmer up. The first couple of weeks after the cycle is introduction of the clean up crew ( snails, crabs, shrimp, ect.) and they do not produce nearly as much waste as fish do. usally...

I would cut the skimmer off for now. The perpose of the skimmer is to remove material before it could cause hamful amonia, nitrites, & nitrates. You actually for a cycle want those levels to spike to promote benificial bacteria growth. The skimmer will basically fight this process. I would...

i have the same problem! I've been taking ro water and boiling it and using a turkey baster and squirting into their mouths with the hot water. This seems to be killing them but i'm slowly getting rid of them. They also have some recomendations in new hobbiest hitchhiker threds. This has been...

another thing after adding sand put a plate on top of it and when you add new water poor it on the plate this will keep the sand storm down.

you could probably do it with out a cycle since 55 has been up and going for a while but you will want to use almost all the water, lr, ls from 55 gal. best to break down 55 into big plastic tubs with a power head and heater for fish, corals, and some live rock. once your down to low amount of...

what i did was go to the grocery store back to the seafood department and asked the guy if he had any that they were going to throw out because they were starting to go bad and he gave me about 3 or 4 large shrimp for free.

sometimes it takes a bit longer to cycle a tank but it would help if you could post all info about tank. Live rock? sand or crush coral? ect. Also how much are you feeding. I made the same mistake and on my first tank started with Damsels. I also found I was feeding way too much and could not...

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hey, I just added moon lights on my tank about 2 months ago and it did not bother anyone in my tank. I think it actually helped so I could see the night time critters come out. I mounted them in my strip light. I just got the lunar lights the ones that you can add extra links too. I set one...

I do not think the star would be getting them. I put in my tank a coral banded shrimp and since I did he has attacked my marroon gold stripe clown twice and gotten a nibble off of one of his back fins. Since my clown stay's way away from him, but something I've seen in my tank and would be...

try this when you get levels where they should be and salinity is good mark the tank with a sharpe marker on the back of the tank. When water evaporates the salt does not so all you should do is top off with RO water. Check daily and add RO water till you are at the mark you put on tank. This...

cut the bottle so that the end where the screw cap was is facing the bottom of bottle. then tape it back to other part.

don't feed them for a couple of day's then cut a 2 liter empty cleaned out coke or pepsi bottle big enough for them to swim in. Put some food in it and just wait they will go in but have a hard time getting out.