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To me it sounds like alk affects or bleaching. You could try to lower your light levels considering you have LED. Otherwise im not to sure. A bump...
Its more likely because of some die off from the live rock causing a mini cycle. The ideal Ca is 400-460ish. Lets see some pics :-)
Seems to be at the back end of a cycle. Once your nitrates go down to 0 you should be good to go for fish. The calcium is also very low if you are...
+1 Great information
Mmmm. I dont agree with that. Just being cruel IMO. Cycling tanks with fish causes the fish to be exposed to a high level of ammonia etc which causes...
Realistically, one green chromis is going to provide a VERY small amount of ammonia for beneficial bacteria. If you continue trying to cycle like...
No idea. But I think they look bloody sweet!!!. The only thing I might have a problem with is what do you do if something fails inside the back...
Depends really. The whole point of the cycle is to establish a load of beneficial bacteria that can consume ammonia and nitrates that are produced...
We hydrogen peroxide often in my research laboratory. Its labelled toxic, highly corrosive, and not to be used without proper personal protection...
He means a baffle in the sump to prevent microbubbles moving through the different sections of the sump. Check out the video I made. Its on the...
I use an aquaone artic 1/6 HP chiller. I draw my water from the return section and return it to the return section. Over all it doesn't matter as...
I might need to go and invest in 8's or 10's.
Hey guys, How the hell does everyone deal with the power requirements of tanks? I mean I have 2 x 6 power board running behind my tank but its...
Sorry, that was meant to be why this thread is good. And discussions about where the definitions come from is good.
These four posts show why this thread is NOT going no-where. The thread gives information for new hobbists to what some of the definitions they may...
Thats more "Freshwater Fish". Considering this forum is called 3reef, that does suggest that it deals predominately with saltwater fish. Tropical...
+1 Tropical Fish.
Looks like a great tank. Personally, if it was me, I would stray away from being the person in charge of any office tank. If something goes wrong,...
As in threads for coral only tanks? with no fish?
If you effectively use GFO, you would never completely strip PO4 from the water. If you have absolutely 0.00 PO4 with a hanna checker, you should...
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