Recent content by bryant

hair alge possible high nitrates and dinos not good for clean up crew

I have a 180 reef (starting out) inhabitants so far : 2 pink tipped anemones 3 large turbo snails 15 small snails (unknown) 2 peppermint shrimp 12 hermits 1 cabbage coral I am looking to start to add fish about 1 a month (except chromis maybe) would theese work out ??? 1 purple tang 1 copper...

the tank looks much better after the 12th change in 2 weeks tank has a noticible drop in return thus far hopefuly a good sighn, the last few changes I have moved the l/r in an attempt to remove any die off under it as well as any leftovers lots-o- gunk under them

10 4 will try this

good idea the amperage load should not be over 80% of capacity anyway i would put pumps ane essential on one the lighting and non essential on the other that way if a ballast goes the pumps will run

thanks for the welcome the tank ran 30 days just live sand and flouro. lighting with clean up crew and 2 fish ( clown and tang) . I then added lighting and the l/r that ran a few weeks the fish passed shortly after addition of l/r no spots or visable sighns of disease. I checked paramaters the...

high enough to move the sand in some spots theres 1700 gpm flow in the tank not counting the mag in the sump

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:43 am Post subject: cyano goes or tank does Read this post -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am so bummed on this tank its a 180 (new hope to be reef) 120 lb lr cured 100 lb l/s mag 9.5 return mag 5 driving built...

I found this cleaning during a cyano outbreak http://www.msnusers.com/tankphotos/shoe ... &PhotoID=1

I went to home depot found 2 stock 36" unfinished cabinets w drawers and enough room for sump.I used 4x4 post in each of the corners then took off the particce board back and used mdf in its place make sure to also to brace under the floor of cabinet you could make a frame out of 4x4 for that...