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Originally Posted by sweetdawn im thinking freshwater half with land so that i can have a little ecosystem with frogs and fish and plants lucky the ten is too small gonna get a 20. and i think you should get coal for your birthday same as christmas cause you not coming home for the summer...

Originally Posted by oreo12 Why i was checking out some base rock I found a web site that sales it actuly quite a few sites and they said that this rock dry brought out of hawwi would help maintane the ph in your salt water tank. My ph was low in the new 55 untill I added some base rock That I...

Originally Posted by rujelus22 Anyone ever use this stuff? any good If you are talking about the ones that "absorb phosphates and nitrates", they are marginal at best. They will clean up the water and absorb a small amount of both, but is no match against really high of either, and certainly...

Originally Posted by civileng68 They dont have to be fed. I just use a few sinking pellets to keep the sand bed with food. So, really, you ARE feeding it

Originally Posted by smallfry ctgretzky9: Thats what mine usually look like. All legs.. :hilarious Yup! They do occassionally cruise the tank, especially at night. I have a theory that they can trap pods...Ophiura...any comments? here is why: I notice at night, a lot of times, they "curl" a...

Originally Posted by teen im only 18, senior in high school. does he still go to school? lol....no, he is around 34 yrs old, havent spoken to him in years, I know they were like everyone knew them in mastic years ago. He is a nyc police officer now, but his family i thought was still there. No...

I have 2 brittles, both just incredibly large...arm to arm id say almost a foot spread out! Both are really awesome, and both like to have most of their arms sticking out from the rocks, neither is shy! Pic of one of them from a month or so ago in his hizzy

I use b-ionic (alk and calc) daily to every other day depending on top off water and testing alk and calc. I use kent supperbuffer dkh occasionally(once every couple of weeks) as the buffer instead of the b-ionic. Every once in a while magnesium (esv) if it tests low. Usually once every 2 weeks...

Originally Posted by teen yea, i said they dont have phones he told me that it costs to much, and hes been there for more than 18 yrs or somthing like that, and hes never had one. all in all, hes a very good lfs, i recomend him to anyone, and hes a lot closer to me than fish town usa. i work...

Originally Posted by teen aqua hut, there in coram, like 15 minutes away from me. he also gave me that price off the top of his head, and he usually gives me stuff for cheap since im always there :joy: i would tell you to call him, but they dont have phones Coram? Who lives near there? I grew...

Originally Posted by plomanto I am out of ideas so I am asking for a little help. About a month ago things in my 120 started not looking so good, so testing the water i found nitrates to be high around 50. I did a large water change I also pulled all the rock out (thinking something might have...

You can always tell her it is a lot less expensive than if you took up ice hockey or golf, or maybe flying lessons? That should can it right there

Originally Posted by ophiura Some of the best advice out there, IMO. As for the baking soda, when you are trying to control alkalinity and buffer HUGE systems...a hundred thousand gallons, for example, it is the only cost effective option We'd get huge bags of the stuff. lmao...yea, i...

Originally Posted by PClown Alk can be measured in 3 different ways and alot of test measure this I believe in in mg/l which is what you have given us but to most of us we recognize it as dkH. Here is a formula: 1 Meq/L = 50 mg/L = 2.8 dKH 3.2 Meq/L = 160 mg/L = 9 dKH So your alk reading in dkH...

Originally Posted by bluelagoon yes, way up here! i hope it stays warm soon! anyways... i did look around more at that light fixture, and i'm pretty sure that's what i'm going with. what kind of filter would you suggest?? i'm completely open to ideas! lol If not a protein skimmer, then I...

Originally Posted by heddy ctgretzky9: can i just stop using my eheim? should i leave it connected? can i just try leaving it off and see if it helps? sorry if these seem like beginner questions!!!!! the pic you showed - was that the protein skimmer on the lft and the hob on the right? i guess...

Originally Posted by alyssia Some people glue things underwater in their tank but I have never had luck with this. I have to take the rock out and dry it a little to get the frags to stick. See above your post....holdfast is all I ever use, since it is workable underwater. I could never figure...

Originally Posted by oreo12 I though that some live rock will help keep the ph at the 8.2 level. Do you have live rock? How much in what size tank? You might want to look into that along with your substrate. any more natural way would be best. My ph allways stays up I have lots of rock...

Originally Posted by ophiura Basically, baking soda, like other buffers, is still an alkalinity buffer. IMO if your pH is 8.0 and it is stable, I see no reason to make any changes whatsoever, IMO. I have measured seawater in the ocean at 7.8 Thanks oph...I wasnt sure about the bs...

Originally Posted by MPLS MAN CTGRETZKY Thanks for the help in clarifying everything what i've been doing. the only question i have is if you cant lower the calc to raise the ph .. should i try using baking soda to raise just the ph? my calc has always been at least 460 , from what i...