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Found a RO/DI unit that is a home/reef system for $189 from a site dealing with airwaterice . Does anyone have experience with this unit or this supplier? Secondly, I wonder if those who have developed a good system for moving 10 gallons of water to a 'processing tank' and then from there to the...

Originally Posted by fishieness you pH is definatly not high. do you mean it could be lower than 7.8? avagadro's number is 6.022X10^23 however, unless you know the volume of a mole of water, this wouldnt work. and also since it is salt water, there are all types of minerals and planktonic...

Originally Posted by fishieness no, i dont know how many million particles there are per gallon of water. But i do know where most levels shouold be. But water changes cannot solve all of your problems. you must identify the problem first. id wait a few more days to let you nitrates and...

Last night I tested my water... Ammonia: 0 Nitrites : .5 Nitrates: 40 Alk: 300 PH 7.8 My nitrites dropped by 2.5 since 2 days ago. I'm thinking of doing a 20% water change to level out the nitrates. Any problems with this? Also still struggling with my temperature stabilization. Most things I...

Originally Posted by Birdy Take the shrimp out... With nitrites at 3.0 you skipped the ammonia stage because you have good quality LR and LS with lots of good bacteria. Not a whole lot you can do right now but wait, you can do a couple small 10% water changes over a few days to see if the...

Originally Posted by Mikeyjer I'll have to say it's your heater, what kind of lighting kit do you have on it right now? How many and what type of powerheads did you get? :happyfish I put 2 Maxi-Jet 900's in the tank. The lighting kit is a 30" flourescent and hasn't been on the last four...

This is a 54 gallon corner tank. It's had LS and water running for about 2 weeks now. 4 days ago I put 45 pounds of LR in the tank. I've measured the ammonia levels twice since installing the LR and both times its read 0. I just measured the Nitrates at 40, Nitrites at 3.0, Alk at 300, and...

Bought it online. Site said it was precured. It had very little die off from what I can tell and I have to say I was quite impressed with the selection of rock that I received. Sounds like the shirmp is the way to go. If the ammonia readings go off the chart I should take the shrimp out and...

Just started my tank last week with 60 lbs of live sand. Added 45 lbs of LR 36 hours ago. PH is high = 8.6 Ammonia = 0 : I actually expected there to be some ammonia at this point. How long will it take the LR to start producing ammonia? Wondering if you guys recommend I add a piece of raw...

Thanks for the quick reply. I exercised some patience and waited for the searches to complete (extemely slow yesterday) and found all the answers to my questions. Looks like I need to invest in some LR and power heads to complete my setup and get the cycle started. Kinda bummed about the long...

Greetings, I'm brand new to the saltwater scene and need some assistance in getting my tank up and running. I have a 54g corner tank with a Magnum 350 canister (carbon media) and 60 pounds of Live Sand. I know I need to add a couple power heads to get the water moving but do I need any other...