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hah i think any metal halide ballast or ho ballast gets hot- i used to have mine sitting in a circuit box- i had really old ones that i sticked my finger in the magentic coils one time and got a 250 watt shocki it was an intersting felling
ok the salinity is bassicly the only thing you can control when getting saltwater from places- like if fishtales hasnt repalces there ro membranes for 3 years id probably wanna spend the money and go to trop.
when dealing with purchasing water from stores it all depends on how there ro-di system is- if it hasnt been maintained and had the filters cleaned then the water will have a high tds- each store will have varoius results and there is kind of no way to tell because the tds meeters usualy only...
i cant wait to see what she makes- a guy at macna had his own rocks he hand made from ceramic or something that he kiln dried- they were great i wish they were cheaper- they had perfict caves/ crevices holes for mounting frags-i cant wait to see what nice creations she makes- you are gonna have...
it may be alot to digest and think about with the hobby but once you read some articles on everything you learn allloooootttttt an some stuff seems easier but the number 2 rules is dont give up- and only thing that happens fast in a fish tank are bad things.
even thought that they all have to o with each other doesn't mean that if one is at a level then the other isnt automatically at another- my ph stays at 8.1 but my alk can shift from 7 to 12 and my calcium can go from 350 to 450 and my ph could still be locked in at 8.1-i think its baking soda...
yeah thats normal kinda- no test kit is perfict every time there are small things that contribute to inaccuracy- i use salifert and every test kit of salifert i use is accurate like they should be +-.3(each bottle is diff)
i my self have never had a problem with them- i had the red ones big ones small ones- never really did major damage to corals frags here and there but that just makes the corals grow faster. I have them to pick any brown waffer algea that has accumulated over the time- while they are small they...
ro-di water has simple elements but the main ones you need is in the freshly made salt water(its in the salt mix mainly). I was just saying look into two part because if you ever run into alk spikes from the water change a two part might be good to use in between water changes- just trying to...
instead of drawing 4 ml of tank water take the water needed from the little bottle- what is written on that bottle should be the measure of how much drops is needed to get the color to change- that was has a specific alkalinity of ***
hah yeah hopefully its not some algeas that can be very bad. The no light trick should work- hopefully someone else would chime in but i wonder if you put a clean up crew of just guys that eat some of the hair algae if it would help. Hopefully someone else chimes in- i never had a algae problem...
if hes still breathing at a calm rate than dont worry- if he comes out and eats during the day then you really shouldnt worry at all- when my wrasses would fall completely asleep they made there slime and would tumble over in the rock cave then during the day he had no idea he was sleep...