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Originally Posted by wattsupdoc Oh, and a crew of bikini chicks to take care of it all.

If you had won the lottery, what is your DREAM tank. What equipment would you have, What rare fish would you want? I think this will be fun

Originally Posted by sepulatian I agree here. I think it was the cycle, already in place, that took care of the nitrites. The added filtration will help. I have used biozyme, during my nitrite situation. It did nothing. I think I still have the small red jar with the flip lid. I am very happy...

Bump, im also trying romain lettuce ?

Originally Posted by srfisher17 I do too. IMO, if properly maintained, I think most of the good HOT and canister filters work very well; on appropriately size tanks. I have a feeling that many filter owners just don't understand what does what and what needs cleaning. Example: You don't scrub...

Since this post started my nitrIte has dropped wayyy down to .3 PPM. Thats over 4.7 PPM down from the original post. Prime and second new emporer 400 with all new filter changes and about a 15% water change every week for 3 weeks in a row did the trick. I will continue to check peramiters every...

Sounds good, what about maybe some micro algae ?

What is something that I can add in the tank besides fomula 2 (which my trigger seems to snag first) that my foxface and blue hippo can enjoy. Im hoping for a answer something along the lines of a Veggie clip and some kinda of greens. The hippo is on pelltet food (spectrum) but the fox face...

i don't know whether to decorate with LR around my VERY EXPENSIVE custom hand made artificial reef inserts or to just remove them all together and just start adding LR over the next few months... I did want to thank everyone for all the advice and opinions. I am currently making a transition...

i kind of like where this is going

Originally Posted by Beth If you are disturbing the substrate to any degree, then you also disturb your biofilter. The downside of keeping a FO only tank is that some mechanical and a lot more human intervention is needed to keep the tank clean. A few pieces of live rock would go a long way...

Originally Posted by Beth There should be water circulation (via pumped water toward the bottom of the tank) in order to have a sufficiently viable bio filter in the substrate. That is key, to say the least. An adequate substrate of small particle sand is certainly the bulk of any biofilter...

Originally Posted by Beth How old is your tank? Do you disturb your sand-bed when you do maintenance? I'd check the water with LFS, using expired test kits can result in poor readings. Is it possible something died in the tank? Did the problem appear suddenly, or gradually? Tank is almost 60...

Sorry I was out all day... New test kit from Hagen, which now I have a new LFS and this is the test they use. Is showing me to have at least 1.6 PPM. Which the old reading was showing over 5.0 PPM. Installed a secondary emporer 400 yesterday. I have never cleaned the bio wheels since you arent...

I can totally agree with you there. But in this situation (and my fiances prius and like 55 mpg) i really need to get the proper filtration ASAP and hope nothing goes bad in the next 24hrs. Plus they are holding a golden puffer for me

Actually that makes alot of sense. I will pickup another 400 tomorrow at my "local" fish store (almost 1hr away) and drop that on the other side of the tank.

You keep saying nitrate, nitrate, nitrate.. Its a nitrIte problem There is no LR what so ever and about 100 lbs of LS. I would get my own RO unit but atm im living at a Apt where im not even allowed to have 1 tank let alone the 4 i have! The fish are healthy and active as any of them in my...

water changes every saturday, 10 gallons per 7 days. The RO water is from walmart i dont remember the perameters on the water but i do remember that it was acceptable. I fill 4 5g containers like every other day. and use on all my tanks.

nitrites are off the chart i cant even gauge what the reading is. 90gallon tank, FO, 3 fish Volitan Lion 4-5 inches Huma Huma Trigger 2-3 inches Blue Hippo Tang 3-4 inches I have no clue why this has spiked on me. Running a Emporer 400 with the extra media containers filled with activated black...

Originally Posted by Conodor Just read about the refractor, gonna put it on my list. thanks! Took me over a year to know that, damn LFS