indooreefs
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:notsure: After our 150g was up for about 7 months, we moved to a new house (with no loss of life and was able to save almost all the water) we was here 1 month when it cracked right across the front spilling water all over the place. Fortunately we had large containers still around from the move and was able to save about half of the water. No one in my area had a 150 in stock and the wait was 3 to 5 days.... Not wanting to lose it all we decided to upgrade to a 180g drilled tank. When we set it up there was enough water and LR to fill the 180 a little more than half. So half the water is fairly new(3 weeks), how often should I do water changes?
My nitrates are up just a little but everything seems just fine. We have about 250 pds of LR ....blue,scarlet and zebra hermits, emerald crabs, a teddybear crab, a few unknown hitchhicker crabs, 4 kinds of snails, some conchs, pepperment shrimp ,coral banded shrimp and some tiny unknown white shrimp living in the LR ,flame scallop ,cleaner clams ,long tentacle anemone ,bumble bee anemone ,a black cucumber ,scooter blennies ,a unknown goby ,damsels and 2 clowns.
It took us a bit to get the water flow right. After paying hundreds of dollars on pumps we found they still was no match for a tank of this size and ended up using a sump pump made for pumping rain out of new fondations (my husbands a masonry contrator) and drilling holes in the 2 bio filters to connect them together. We turned 1 of the other pumps into a super duper powerhead and hooked pvc pipe to it with 6 holes. Without the pipe the flow was way to high and blew sand every where.We are going to add plants somewhere very soon to help aid in keeping down my nitrates. But still not sure how often I should do a water change. Its been up 3 weeks and I'm doing one tonight not sure if I should do 10 or 20 percent. Nitrates are about 25, they was always 15 to 20 before. Nitrites zero (like always) and everything else looks good.
:help: CAN SOMEONE WHO REALLY KNOWS INVERTS HELP ME OUT ????
My nitrates are up just a little but everything seems just fine. We have about 250 pds of LR ....blue,scarlet and zebra hermits, emerald crabs, a teddybear crab, a few unknown hitchhicker crabs, 4 kinds of snails, some conchs, pepperment shrimp ,coral banded shrimp and some tiny unknown white shrimp living in the LR ,flame scallop ,cleaner clams ,long tentacle anemone ,bumble bee anemone ,a black cucumber ,scooter blennies ,a unknown goby ,damsels and 2 clowns.
It took us a bit to get the water flow right. After paying hundreds of dollars on pumps we found they still was no match for a tank of this size and ended up using a sump pump made for pumping rain out of new fondations (my husbands a masonry contrator) and drilling holes in the 2 bio filters to connect them together. We turned 1 of the other pumps into a super duper powerhead and hooked pvc pipe to it with 6 holes. Without the pipe the flow was way to high and blew sand every where.We are going to add plants somewhere very soon to help aid in keeping down my nitrates. But still not sure how often I should do a water change. Its been up 3 weeks and I'm doing one tonight not sure if I should do 10 or 20 percent. Nitrates are about 25, they was always 15 to 20 before. Nitrites zero (like always) and everything else looks good.
:help: CAN SOMEONE WHO REALLY KNOWS INVERTS HELP ME OUT ????
