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  1. gotfish

    My 24 gallon horrible tank

    I don't know if that's it. I had a peppermint shrimp in my 29g BC for 10 months and now he's in the 125g since I took the BC down. I've had sexy shrimp in a 5.5g for a couple months now. I feed them once a week. He has 2 gobies that are fine. Something is definitely weird. Like I said in...
  2. gotfish

    My 24 gallon horrible tank

    82 degrees is nothing to worry about unless you go from 80 to 82 degrees in a matter of minutes. Ocean temps have been read at 85 degrees. Like I said, if you're testing your water and everything checks out ok, I can't see it being a water quality issue. If it's taking a month for a fish to...
  3. gotfish

    My 24 gallon horrible tank

    What sort of water quality issue could it be if you test it? I don't know, if you've had 2 fish in it that are fine, but lose others once they go in the tank, it doesn't make sense. I can see why the sps wouldn't live long. The lighting isn't sufficient for them, but as far as the other...
  4. gotfish

    My 24 gallon horrible tank

    What kind of coral are you trying? As far as the fish, you say they hide and are never seen again. You got a crab that may be killing them?
  5. gotfish

    My 24 gallon horrible tank

    This is way too complicated of an issue to get a good response on. How are the fish dying, what are the parameters when they do die? How are the coral dying, parameters? The questions can continue, but in reality, I doubt you're going to get an answer.
  6. gotfish

    Want to add a sump to Red Sea Max...

    I'd go with a 20g, but a 10g would suffice. The glass on the tank is tempered so you can't drill the tank and I don't know if you could find an overflow box that would fit very well. If you took measurements you might be able to find one. What I would do is get yourself a 20g and drill it...
  7. gotfish

    Roscoe's 270g build

    So that bulb wasn't screwed in all the way? It couldn't have been that much farther in to go. How did you get it screwed in farther? Was there something in the socket itself? You get the moonlight up yet?
  8. gotfish

    Big Sale Time!!

    It would be $91. The normal price is 129.99.
  9. gotfish

    lights

    They aren't $25 each, most are right around $20. You are saving yourself a little energy and yes, the startup cost is cheaper. The 8 bulb fixture I posted is right around 500 with bulbs. For 2 250's, you're looking at 250-300 in reflectors unless he buys them from you. Another 200-300 for...
  10. gotfish

    Going bare bottom

    Relax, you can either take it as you did, or you could take the advice and learn from it. Like I said, whether you realize it or want to admit it, just because you didn't get a reading at the time that you tested, doesn't mean it didn't take place. See, it's a fact that if you kill off or take...
  11. gotfish

    updated pic

    Very nice. How did you get the pic to be all blacked out except the tank itself?
  12. gotfish

    lights

    It's just sad when people still seem to think the only way to grow a coral is under a halide bulb. Especially when the person only wants to have softies which will easily grow under pc's
  13. gotfish

    Going bare bottom

    k, so you lost half of the population of bacteria that was on your sand then. Stacy wants to take out all of it at once. All of the bacteria on the sand will be gone. Whenever you lose bacteria like that, whether it's all of you tank or half, you will get an ammonia spike followed by a...
  14. gotfish

    Going bare bottom

    How can you not lose bacteria? How do you know you didn't go through a mini cycle? Our tanks go through mini cycles and you'd never know it unless you check your ammonia and trites constantly. If you take out all your sand, you will lose bacteria, that's just a simple fact. The bacteria...
  15. gotfish

    Going bare bottom

    The sand in your tank is covered in bacteria, billions. The glass underneath your sand has nothing. You take out that sand and the bacteria will have to populate the glass. That's going to take a while and the ammonia that was normally taken in and processed won't be until that population...
  16. gotfish

    lights

    No, they wouldn't. T5's would be your best option. I would go with an 8 bulb Tek fixture like this. http://www.reefgeek.com/lighting/T5_Fluorescent/Sunlight_Supply/Tek_Light_Fixtures/48_inch__8x54W_Tek_Light_T5_High-Output_Fixture_w!_Bulbs_(Black)_by_Sunlight_Supply You could go with a 6...
  17. gotfish

    New pictures. Playing with my macro lens

    Nice pics on the rhizo.
  18. gotfish

    Going bare bottom

    Taking out the sand shouldn't mess with the chemistry right away I wouldn't imagine. It does help buffer, but the biggest thing if you pull all the sand at once, you're going to lose a huge population of bacteria and most likely will go through a mini cycle.
  19. gotfish

    I'm so tempted!!!

    That would be a pisser, but if you've got the money to buy it, I'm sure you've got the money to lose it as well.
  20. gotfish

    Roscoe's 270g build

    Your coral aren't going to know what to do with all that flow. I can't wait to see the tank now that everything is going.
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