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So I am starting to get a bit of cyano in my DT and I have alot in my fudge tank. So when I do my water change do I need to get it out of fudge as well as the DT tank? Right now I have Cheto in the fudge with live sand that is it.

Ok thank I wasnt sure I have been scrubbing it and rinsing it out every time before I fill it back up I will have to try the vinegar next

So I have a 44 gal brute garbage can that I have been mixing my water in. I mix the water after about a week I get a ton of salt build up in the garbage can on the sides. I have a pump on the bottom to push water around and a power head on top. I am using instant ocean salt. And using tap...

So far 55 gal salt, another 55 gal fw with cichlids and another 20 gal in the bedroom with cichlids. But we are thinking at some point getting another bigger tank for SW and getting rid of the 55 FW

Thanks for the help I just wanted to make sure of things

Fowlr Lights had only been on 4 of the 8 hours on a timer. I had put Marine Buffer in the tank when I started it but haven't put any in since. The PH has been staying at 8.3 so thats why I was a little concerned. I had done a water change last week so should I add some more of that buffer or...

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Hello everyone I just tested my tank and my ph is 8.4 maybe a little higher. Everything else is fine Do I need to worried? I tried searching and didn't come up with any answers

bought some LR and when putting it in the tank we noticed this. Could this be some coral

So we bought a protein skimmer and have had it up and running a couple of days. So tonight I emptied it and WOW what a horrible horrible smell. I have smelled some nasty stuff but so far that has been the worst! But any way so far things have been going really well. We bought a clean up crew...

ok thanks for the advise everyone. like I said salt water is all very new to me and I want this to go right and nothing bad is going on in the mean time I will just keep testing it and go from there

One is a penguin 1140 and the other one is a Penguin Power sponge filter that according to the box flows 170 GPH. And now there is little green strings coming up from the rocks some type of algae

Ok thanks for the reply. Also there are little tube feather duster things on the rock as well they seem to be doing really well so I am taking I don't have to feed them anything?

Hello everyone new here to the site and new to salt water. Any ways I have a 55gal tank that has been set up for almost 2 weeks now. Got it filled salt to right level crushed coral on the bottom, dropped in 40lbs base and 20lbs of life rock. Lights have been on a timer for 8 hours a night. I...