sean spendley
New Member
Hey-
Some of you may remember me from when I posted about the 180 gallon, well I decided to try my luck on a 45 before investing all the time and money into things. I had a few questions:
1) The smaller Prizm skimmer, is it enough for a 45 gallon small aggressive tank with only a few fish,I have 25 lbs of live rock and 60 lbs of live sand? Also, it seems to sometimes leak out of the back even though I've assembled and reassembled it over and over again. I dunno why it does this still? It makes a lot of noise, how loud are they supposed to be and should the collection cup start to fill up when I first start it?
2) Should I run a skimmer during my cycle?
3) This is my big question, the 45 was leftover from freshwater and the light was kind of old. Well, something happened....and it filled all of my water with electricity for prolly 10 minutes last night. I put my hand in and zap, I got a nice jolt. Did that kill all my live rock and sand??????? There is a rather pungent odor now and my nitrites are skkkkkkyyyyy high, with ammonica reading between 1 and 1.5 ppm. I don't really care about this right now since I'm trying to cycle anyways, but do you think the electricity completely killed the live rock?
Here are all my water parameters:
Ammonica 1-1.5 ppm
Nitrite 4+
Nitrate 20
salinity 1.023
pH 8.4 ---- I was so worried about how it stayed up and now I can't get it back down!!! Any suggestions?
Also, sorry so long a post but, what fish should I put in here. I realize Im very limited in the aggressive section but is there any possibility? If not I will just do community
Sorry such a looong post, any help is appreciated.
Sean
Some of you may remember me from when I posted about the 180 gallon, well I decided to try my luck on a 45 before investing all the time and money into things. I had a few questions:
1) The smaller Prizm skimmer, is it enough for a 45 gallon small aggressive tank with only a few fish,I have 25 lbs of live rock and 60 lbs of live sand? Also, it seems to sometimes leak out of the back even though I've assembled and reassembled it over and over again. I dunno why it does this still? It makes a lot of noise, how loud are they supposed to be and should the collection cup start to fill up when I first start it?
2) Should I run a skimmer during my cycle?
3) This is my big question, the 45 was leftover from freshwater and the light was kind of old. Well, something happened....and it filled all of my water with electricity for prolly 10 minutes last night. I put my hand in and zap, I got a nice jolt. Did that kill all my live rock and sand??????? There is a rather pungent odor now and my nitrites are skkkkkkyyyyy high, with ammonica reading between 1 and 1.5 ppm. I don't really care about this right now since I'm trying to cycle anyways, but do you think the electricity completely killed the live rock?
Here are all my water parameters:
Ammonica 1-1.5 ppm
Nitrite 4+
Nitrate 20
salinity 1.023
pH 8.4 ---- I was so worried about how it stayed up and now I can't get it back down!!! Any suggestions?
Also, sorry so long a post but, what fish should I put in here. I realize Im very limited in the aggressive section but is there any possibility? If not I will just do community
Sorry such a looong post, any help is appreciated.
Sean