neil
Member
Hello Folks,
I'm a little new to the saltwater hobby, have been a customer of swf for the last few months, and just realized today they've had a message board I could ask questions on all along. I think my local fish store will be happy about this.
My first question, is that I had a hard time making my order add up to the minimum of $75 dollars. I originally planned on just purchasing two fish, a firefish and a flame angel, I didn't care about the shipping cost, whatever it was, but it wouldn't let me put the order through, I finally realized why. I was going to do this because my local store charges 59.99 for a flame angel. Well I went ahead and ordered two firefish and a flame angel, I read where the firefish likes to have a buddy tag along, plus I ordered a small queen conch and some replacement nassarius snails. Now that I've done this, and have read quite a few posts on this board, I'm hoping I haven't over done it. If I have, a possible solution, if anyone could offer one.
My tank is about 4 months old, and has a small clean up crew, and a clown. I have a 90 gallon tank with a 30 gallon sump, and euro reef skimmer, not sure how to tell you what size it is, it's rather big. All of my parameters seem to be in line. except recently I've been adding a little extra salt, which would lead me to my next question.
In my sump, I have two lines drawn on the side of the tank. One is the refill line, and the second is how full I fill it two. I find if I do it every two days, it turns out to be about an exact measurement of 3 gallons. Once a week, I've been adding 5 gallons of made up water(salt), and then waiting until it gets back to the refill line, before adding my regular 3 gallons of RO/DI topoff. This has been increasing my salinity, it got down to 1.021 for some reason, and a month later, I'm back up to 1.023. Is this a fine method for raising the salinity level, or is there a better known or safer method of doing this.
I've seen people ask for descriptions of the tank water, so I'll say mine are all pretty normal, ph:8.2, amm:0, nitrites:0, nitrates:10, dKH: 9.8, cal: 420. Only additives I use are a two part dosing system from ESV. The livestock are a cleaner shrimp, a peppermint shrimp, a good mix of snails, and a very small, but seemingly healthy clarkii. I also have about 140 pds of rock, a mix of tonga, tonga branch, fiji, and marshall. The fiji was from an established aquarium, and it is simply beautiful stuff. The gentleman actually let me take a couple of cups of his sand to seed my substrate.
Thank you if you respond to my inquiries.
Neil
I'm a little new to the saltwater hobby, have been a customer of swf for the last few months, and just realized today they've had a message board I could ask questions on all along. I think my local fish store will be happy about this.
My first question, is that I had a hard time making my order add up to the minimum of $75 dollars. I originally planned on just purchasing two fish, a firefish and a flame angel, I didn't care about the shipping cost, whatever it was, but it wouldn't let me put the order through, I finally realized why. I was going to do this because my local store charges 59.99 for a flame angel. Well I went ahead and ordered two firefish and a flame angel, I read where the firefish likes to have a buddy tag along, plus I ordered a small queen conch and some replacement nassarius snails. Now that I've done this, and have read quite a few posts on this board, I'm hoping I haven't over done it. If I have, a possible solution, if anyone could offer one.
My tank is about 4 months old, and has a small clean up crew, and a clown. I have a 90 gallon tank with a 30 gallon sump, and euro reef skimmer, not sure how to tell you what size it is, it's rather big. All of my parameters seem to be in line. except recently I've been adding a little extra salt, which would lead me to my next question.
In my sump, I have two lines drawn on the side of the tank. One is the refill line, and the second is how full I fill it two. I find if I do it every two days, it turns out to be about an exact measurement of 3 gallons. Once a week, I've been adding 5 gallons of made up water(salt), and then waiting until it gets back to the refill line, before adding my regular 3 gallons of RO/DI topoff. This has been increasing my salinity, it got down to 1.021 for some reason, and a month later, I'm back up to 1.023. Is this a fine method for raising the salinity level, or is there a better known or safer method of doing this.
I've seen people ask for descriptions of the tank water, so I'll say mine are all pretty normal, ph:8.2, amm:0, nitrites:0, nitrates:10, dKH: 9.8, cal: 420. Only additives I use are a two part dosing system from ESV. The livestock are a cleaner shrimp, a peppermint shrimp, a good mix of snails, and a very small, but seemingly healthy clarkii. I also have about 140 pds of rock, a mix of tonga, tonga branch, fiji, and marshall. The fiji was from an established aquarium, and it is simply beautiful stuff. The gentleman actually let me take a couple of cups of his sand to seed my substrate.
Thank you if you respond to my inquiries.
Neil