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Hello All, Here are some photo's of my tank. This is the first time I have been able to get pics on here. Just got a new DSLR Canon camera so trying to figure it out. Tank is a 60G Hex.

On the surface your water paramaters seem ok. I would have them double checked by a LFS just to be on the safe side. It is sounding to me like the problem is either the live rock, or the live sand? What kind of sand did you get? Arrogonite (sp) or some different kind of sand? When I was...

A calcium reading of 500 is starting to get on the high side but I wouldnt be greatly concerned yet. Is your system fish only or do you also have corals? If you have any corals they should be consuming calcium? If you are not using any additives then it would seem the increase may be due to...

Yes, I would add some LR and LS to help seed your now dead LR and LS. Get the saltwater mixed up and going. Once you got that part done I would add the dead shrimp trick to get the cycle going. If it were me I would give it some extra time to get the old LR and LS seeded before adding any...

Welcome to the boards. In order to make a helpful recommendation on what kind of corals you should add to your system it would be helpful to know what kind of lighting you have. For example, if you have CF lighting then the only corals would be softies. If you have MH lights then the...

Yes, I would agree the picture you have with the three compartments would work just fine when you get ready for that later on the down the road. One compartment for the protien skimmer, one for the fuge, and one for the return pump. A fuge is not necessary for keeping corals. However, I have...

In my experience if the zoos are opening up that is a good sign. Depending on the type of zoo you have a good indicator of how well they are doing is the color and how the outside edge looks. For example, with the one type of zoo I have it has more vibrant red/green colors when it is happy...

A sump/refugium is not necessary for FOWLR. For the most part you would use a sump to hide your heaters and have a place to put a protein skimmer. If you go with the HOB skimmer you would be fine. A refugium makes a nice addition but again it isnt considered necessary. It is a good place...

I would say yes that more time is needed to acclimate the fish to their new environment. There is a good little video which shows a good method for doing so on this website. It looks like your water parameters should be ok. As an fyi, you had mentioned you had a tried a blue hippo tang...

I agree with everyone else. There are just no words to describe what you have done with your set up. Thank you so much for sharing the journey with us. Sounds like a good time to put your cleanup crew in there.

Well, I have a Canon EOS Rebel XTI on order and I paid less than $900 for it. Plus, it has a 2GB memory card with a 2 year warrenty. So they have definitely come down in price. I think they are even less than that on some sites I have seen. However, my credit is not that great so I had to...

Well Maelv, it has been perfectly fine for you to take over the thread. I have learned some interesting things. There seemed to be some going back and forth there in the middle of the thread so i figured i would just stay out of that. I still dont really know the answer to my original...

Hopefully I will be a little help for your questions. You may get more responses over in the Fish Section on these forums if you ask the question there. Part of your stocking question will be determined by if you are going with a Fish only tank or if you are looking to go for a reef tank. If...

Ok, I will bite and throw in my 2 cents. LOL. My opinion is that when it comes to snails and hermits the snails are least productive as far as cleanup crew goes. In my tank I started off with a bunch of regular turbo snails, hermits, and some snails the LFS called Florida turbos. All of the...

Looks like your off to a great start. Cant wait to see the pics once you get the LR and LS set up.

I took the plunge and have ordered a new camera. Unfortunately it wont arrive for another week or two but I do have a question I am hoping someone on here might know the answer to. Camera Canon EOS Rebel XTi with the stock 18-55mm lense. Question I have tried to find out what the digital zoom...

With Calcium being at 300 my guess is the alkalinity is also going to be very low. I would make sure that is ok as well. The three usually go hand in hand. Calcium, Alkalinity, and then the magnesium. Magnesium seems to be the strange element. It usually is most often ok. But if you do...

I mainly test for Alkalinity and Calcium, and Nitrates in my tank. Keeping the alkalinity stable is the best thing to do to keep the PH stable. I havent tested the PH in quite a while actually. Corals definitely use up the Calcium so need to keep up on that. I do agree though. Once a week...

I see this book recommended often on these forums. I am going to pick up a copy here pretty soon myself. https://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11...ot_parent_id=6