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  1. keener1830

    Shinmao Nano

    I have a aquapod 24 and love it even with the pc's only problem I have is with heat and I upgraded the pump to a maxi jet 1200 and have 2 fans running on it
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    taking care of corals and plants

    Welcome to RF. My first bit of advice I would give you would be to throw away the bio wheel on your filter it has a tendency to build up nitrties instead of nitrates on it. I had one was having problems with the tank and then as soon as I threw away the bio wheel the problems went away as well...
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    Cyano algae?

    I had a cyano problem that ended a month ago. I did water changes with ro water, increased flow and water changes but my skimmer was not working right. I finally used a chem made by blue life I belive that worked wonders and not that my cyano is gone it hasen't come back probally partly due to...
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    how often do I feed my dwarf lion

    Ok so the other day I couldn't resist so I bought a dwarf lion for my pod he is the coolest fish I am having trouble putting pics on so they will come later. The question is how often do I feed him and how much. My LFS told me once every 2-3 day. He told me the fish would only eat 1 krill...
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    Tank help please

    Well got home today and it seems the tank is doing better, took the water down to my local pet store and they told me the nitrates and nitraites are at 0, the PH is at 8.3 and ammonia is good so I think the major water change helped to turn things around I will never use tap water again because...
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    Thoughts on Carib Sea Live Sand in a Bag...

    I have used nothing but carib live sand and it has been great in all my tanks
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    Tank help please

    The red slime remover was just added yesterday so I know that it is not the cause of the deaths of fish and inverts. Now I just cross my fingers and hope that is dosen't finish off my tank. As far as pics go none right now due to the fact I brought the good camera with me for the last leg of...
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    Tank help please

    Thanks for all the feed back. As far as temp goes I removed the heater a long time ago due to the fact the coolest the tank was getting was 76 and it was heating up to 82 in the day. The best thing we have figured out is to open the feeding lid during the day to help get the heat out of the...
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    Tank help please

    The PH was at 8.0 it went up to 8.3 after the water change. Most the stuff died before the water change. THe clown is not dead just has black spots on his body and fins so I do not know how long he is going to make it. As far as the tests go Nitrate was 0 Nirtite was 0 and I know that ammonia...
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    Tank help please

    My tank is on a downward spiral. Since I have been gone( I just got home the wife has been taking care of the tank) my firefish has died, all my shrimp have died my scotter blenny has died and a couple of my zoos colonies have died. My wife did a 75% water change 3 days ago but has not seen...
  11. keener1830

    invert issues

    Yea I am going to stick with the water changes using store water till I get something else. But I am also going to hold off on my quest for my finally fish for the tank my madrin till I get the algee undercontrol and my crabs and shrimp to stay alive. Thanks all for the help
  12. keener1830

    invert issues

    The tank was brand new in the box when I bought it
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    invert issues

    I put a post on here a while ago about issues with red algee and pretty much narrowed it down to the tap water I was using. The next question is can this tap water be causing my inverts to die? I have lost 3 pepermint shrimp and 2 hermit crab and a snail so far. The funny this is all my fish...
  14. keener1830

    How to use that extra space in an Aquapod

    I have no extra space in my aquapod 24 in fact I am trying to figure out how to cram a second maxijet 1200 into the return section. On the overflow side I have the sapphire skimmer and it works well but takes up most the space. I also have two bags of carbon on the skimmer side so the water...
  15. keener1830

    red algee

    I wish we ran our R/O unit inport I would just take it straight off the unit but we have to be 3 miles off shore to do it and there is no point in running a system when we are hooked up to shore water. Thanks everyone for the help I am going to start using the non tap water for sure :)
  16. keener1830

    red algee

    Thanks all for the ideas I am going to try the ro idea, wife is going to just buy the water at the store in the gallon jugs till I get enough to buy a filter system this is what I am thinking of getting due to the fact the house is owned by the military and I am leaving next year...
  17. keener1830

    Returning water from sump to tank with external pump

    If you want to pass it through a U/V you could split the return and have a valve on the supply side the U/V is on so you can control the water flow to the U/V. This way there would be no back pressure on your pump and the u/v would be working on your water system. it would look like this...
  18. keener1830

    red algee

    Ok so I still have the red slime algee problem after I transfred from the 10 gal to the 24 Aquapod. My wife told me that the problem is only getting worse siad she can't keep up with it. The more that she pulls out the more it grows. I am thinking of adding a second maxijet 1200 to the tank...
  19. keener1830

    new 24 aquapod

    To get the skimmer to work you are suppose to take the pice of plexi that is taped to the paper, it came with the skimmer, and place it in the slot with your other plastics for the overflow. Of course the plexi was not wide enough so I cut a hard piece of plastic to the same height but a little...
  20. keener1830

    fresh set up fresh problems

    Reverse Osmosis is well one heck of a filter system. Depending on the unit the water passes through a certin amount of membranes which in turn help to remove impurites and clean up the water. I have a huge unit on board my 210 foot ship that I get to maintain oh what fun but that is for salt...
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