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  1. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Mike good point! I didn't look at it that way, uh duh! lol Sometimes I'm a knucklehead when I'm stressed out over this stuff. I am running carbon everywhere, in containers with holes, in my phosban reactor, I've switched it out already so far, also running it in perforated ziplock bags in...
  2. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Mike yea it's a great idea, except I live in a small apartment well its a 3 bedroom, but not that big with a baby and her stuff, so I really cant, plus Im not sure if the problem wasnt from the ro/di leaching chrloamine into the water in the first place. I could try to pick up a small 10 g...
  3. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    so far I bought some activated carbon, I'm running that with my phosguard. I added some Blueboded poly pads to my bubble trap to absorb any particulates. I also purchased Kents Ammonia detox its supposed to neutralise chlroamine, chlorine and ammonia. I bought a cheap Red-sea Marine lab test...
  4. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Im using my glass hydrometer its reading the same, its in the green. I thought the purpose of calibrating the sybon was to get zero from pure 18ohm water and then from there its supposed to work, I do have a container of pinpoint 53ms salinity solution. The smell from the tank is bad right now...
  5. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Billaweed, well the only real possibilities here are the container I mixed the water in, was sitting outside near trash, landlord could have dumped stuff into it, I rinsed it a few times to no avail. RO is new Spectrapure Maxcap, and tds shows nothing 0. I'm going to get a copper test tommorow...
  6. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Thanks Mike!! Goodnight! David
  7. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    oddly enough Ok so that container I was using to mix my water in, obviously a bad choice I know may not have been the culprit. For some ungodly reason, and I don't know why because I was measuring each bacth of water made, the salinity is suddenly 1.029 even though I was mixing the water at...
  8. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Mike, Thanks for thre reply. No sadly I don't have activated carbon, I work like a dog drive a 2hr commute to and from work totaling a 4hr day in the car alone, and I work 9hr days, plus we have a newborn at home. I don't know what type of toxic contamination could have caused this problem...
  9. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    thanks guys!! Well I did a total of 50g water changes today. I'm also running an airstone in the sump to make sure 02 levels are ok. I think your right Trido, I think the dead Linkia started a new tank cycle. Sadly, and stupidly I don't have a test kit on hand, I threw out my old salifert...
  10. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Guys, I'm having a major issue. I'm not new to the hobby but I don't have an answer for this problem. Here goes: 4 days ago I notice my blue linkia must have died or was dying in my aqauirum, I did drip acclimate him for a few hours, but he may have starved in the 2 months I kept him. So I...
  11. Ditchplains2

    My Shallow Reef.

    Bueller? Hey guys, is anyone still following my thread, if so I have a lot more pics to post. cheers :oops: David
  12. Ditchplains2

    Comment by 'Ditchplains2' in media 'curing rocks'

    It's chaeto and mangroves, basically I bought the chaeto with a lot of mini brittle stars and copopods, so I figured they could help seed some fauna on the rock during the cure. These rocks were dried out rocks, I seeded with a few small pieces of Live Rock.
  13. Ditchplains2

    My Shallow Reef.

    Thanks everyone so much, for all the well wishes, yea she is our world right now. Reefferman It's been a daunting task balancing things out, I try to give my wife and child the majority of my time when I come home from work and weekends, I do get a little time now and again to work on things...
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    curing rocks

    3 months curing rocks.
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    3 months curing rocks.
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    new stand and wood grain

    here's a shot of the stain and wood grain
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    new stand and wood grain

    here's a shot of the stain and wood grain
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    My Shallow Reef.

    Hi guys, I wanted to post a few pics of my tank and see what everyone thinks. I hope everyone had a really good New Year, my wife and I had a baby girl on Dec 7th, so we've been consumed with all the new parent things and no sleep. :lol: Here's one pic of the new setup: I have been...
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    front angle shot old 55g
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    old tank pic

    side view old 55g
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