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  1. convictblenny

    new refugium question

    Just installed a cpr aquafuge with skimmer/light on my fish and invertibrate with live rock 55 gallon tank about two weeks ago. My tank was high nitrate. I put a few inches of live sand and a handful of the brillo type macro algae in the refuge. I now have what looks like little see through itty...
  2. convictblenny

    Nitrates

    Ok to just add live sand over the top? to say like four inches?
  3. convictblenny

    Chaetomorpha

    Anybody have this stuff in the main tank? I was thinking of throwing some into my reef to lower the nitrates a little.
  4. convictblenny

    Nitrates

    I use Aquarium Pharmaceuticals saltwater master liquid test kit. I feed flake nutrifin max marine flake food almost every night, they eat it within two minutes, none seems to remain. Blue hippo eats the most. a couple times a week I feed one chopped cube each of san francisco brand frozen...
  5. convictblenny

    Nitrates

    So it sounds as if a sump might help. Anybody know of a good place to buy a complete sump setup with everything I need, including the pump and hoses, online of course.
  6. convictblenny

    Nitrates

    Ok, I have a 55 gallon satwater tank with about a third filled with live rock and abot 2 inches of live sand. I have a cpr bak pak clone skimmer, and a rio 1100+ powerhead for circulation. The tank and rock is a couple years old, lots of coraline algea. I always have nitrate problems. running...
  7. convictblenny

    is prefilter needed for skimmer

    Very cool, thanks for the info, I always like to check before doing such things. Intake filter is now off. It'll probably scum up the inside of the skimmer a little more, but what the heck, it becomes an algae scrubber to boot.
  8. convictblenny

    is prefilter needed for skimmer

    I have a 55 gallon tank in which the only filter is live sandbed, and live rock. my circulation is a rio 1100 plus a bak pak 2 skimmer. I have pulled all the media from the bak pak. My question is this, Do I need the prefilter on the skimmer intake? Can I just take it off to improve flow and...
  9. convictblenny

    pickling lime

    So bottom line, if I mix up a gallon of pickling lime, and put in a cap (5ml) every day or other day, is it roughly the same as putting in calcium from say kent?
  10. convictblenny

    pickling lime

    so adding a cap a day to a 55 gallon tank will not be the same as adding calcium?
  11. convictblenny

    pickling lime

    Possible to use this as a calcium additive? I want to mix a gallon batch up and dose it cap at a time, like the premixed bottles of calcium. And would it hurt to mix a large batch and then add proper ph 8.2 to it to set the ph?
  12. convictblenny

    hang on back eequipment safe?

    I was just wondering, I see alot of hang on the back type equipment, and I myself have a hang on the back skimmer. Does this create too much stress on back fishtank wall? I have a 55 gallon glass tank, is their a limit to what I should hang on the back? I was considering a hang on the back...
  13. convictblenny

    Blue hermit crabs.

    How many are needed for a 55 gallon live rock tank? Do they coexist with red leg hermit crabs? I was looking at saltwaterfish.com and their reef packages. They also sell them in a group of 50. Are 50 hermit crabs too much for a 55 gallon tank? I have about a third of my tank with live rock. And...
  14. convictblenny

    bristle worms good or bad

    I have a fish and invertebrate tank with alot of live rock. I have no coral. I have alot of red blue bristle worms. Are these good or bad. I have not noticed any fire worms, they just seem to be two to three inch bristle worms that only come out when I feed the tank. So are these good...
  15. convictblenny

    Stocking question

    I took out half the media in my skimmer, gonna do a five gallon water change tomorrow, when should I take out the other half? A day? A week? how long for the bacteria to increase populate the rock? can I just pull it all out and throw in some cycle? By the way, when I decided to go without my...
  16. convictblenny

    Stocking question

    Why take the biobale out in phases? what happens if I just take it all out once?
  17. convictblenny

    Stocking question

    I just ordered a zoomed powersweep 228 for wave creation and water movement. I will leave the air attachment on for oxegenation. I had no idea the blue tang was such an issue, I have had the tangs for like three years, they used to be in a 20 gallon tank.
  18. convictblenny

    Stocking question

    Other than putting orca the blue tang in a 55, (she seems to love it), is this a sustainable load for this tank? It is about two years old since the rock cured, and the rock is half actual liverock with half tufa, that has become live. I planned on taking the filter media out of the bak pak...
  19. convictblenny

    Stocking question

    I have a 55 gallon tank. Only filtration is !/3 tank well established live rock,1 inch live sand, cpr backpack skimmer with plastic curlyques as media. I use a rio 1100 380gph powerhead for circulation. I always have nitrate problem, no other real issues that are a constant. 1 small puple...
  20. convictblenny

    KH ALK off the charts. fish inverts still alive?

    I just used the last of my instant ocean. And I will be going to fish store today, should I stick with it in your opinion? Is there another brand with higher ca and mg? Are the current levels of alk and KH toxic? I was just gonna do like 5 gallon change today (55 gallon tank). The levels should...
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