Recent content by Mikester311

Thanks Kevin! Your thorough reply to my post along with every one elses great replies, I think I have a better understanding about what I have to do. You guys definatlly cleared things up for me. I also wanted to thank John (Tybond) for all his help! Mike

Steve/Dan, You guys have a very good point and you are the guru's. With everything else I have invested, I really just don't have the cash right now to spend on 50+ lbs of live rock. Do you you really need to put that much live rock in the tank if it's not going to be a reef tank? I still have...

50 - 70 lbs now? That seems like a lot to start with. Plus that's a lot of $$ to dump right now. Especially at the LFS. I thought you were suppose to start with a little bit to begin with and add slowly? You guys are the pros though. That's why I am here. For the expert advise. :)

How much LR would you recommend putting in my 72 gallon tank right now?

What do you guys think? Right now my tests read: PH - 7.8 (I guess I need to take it up a little) Ammonia - 4 ppm Nitrite - 5 ppm Nitrate - 20 ppm I'm guessing these will all drop in time. I just didn't expect them to all be so high all at the same time. btw. I took all the shrimp out, so right...

I have seen posts on many different forums that say that this way to cycle works the best and your not risking loosing damsels left and right durring the cycle. From what I have read in other posts, you put the shrimp in, wait until the ammonia peaks, then take the shrimp out? Here is an article...

I checked everywhere. I even called home depots trying to see if I could find some to have shipped to a local store and I could even find a home depot that carried it. I contacted Southdown directly and they gave me the number to the florida repersenitive who gave me a few numbers of some local...

Right now I have about a 3 inch bed of dry aragonite sand I got from purearogonite.com and that's pretty much it. I was told not to put live rock in until the cycle is complete because everything would dye off on it. Your right, the shrimp stink. I never thought I would be going through so many...

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So far my 72 gallon tank has been up for 5 days or so and the 5 shrimp that are sitting on the bottem of the sand bed are starting to decompose. The shells of the shrimp are all fuzzy and swollen. The Ammonia level is about 4.0... After 3 days I turned the wet/dry on. My questions are: Do I...

Thanks Mouse!! This is a great forum! Lots of usefull info here too!

I have a friend with a whole water softener/filter setup. Can I use the water from this? Because the water goes through the salt for the softener, is it bad for the tank? Also, has anyone used this tap water purifier? http://aquariumwaterfilter.com/RODI/FilterTWP.html thanks!

Thanks guys! You gave me some great information. Now that I'm the laugh of the forum for trying to use tap water, I guess I'll invest in a Reverse Osmosis system of some kind. You guys are right about algea blooms. I have brown algea poping up all over the place. I wish i would found this forum...

not to be a idiot, but what is RODI? I'm still tring to catch on to all the accronyms.

I am redoing my tank for a few different reasons. First, I added some inverts and a few crabs that I caught out in the gulf and put them in my tank before I thought about contaminates. So far in 5 weeks I have had one damsel survive out of about 10. I really want to start fresh water now that I...