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Yea I agree. I guess more than anything, I was confused as to the big change in alk. Specially since I have no spa

I haven't done anything to change anything. I just wanted to know if I SHOULD be doing something. Because I always read you should have alk at 8. So when I tested with the red Sea, I would get 10. Now that I switched to hanna, I get 7.2. (last time I checked with red Sea was before I upgraded...

I I only have the Hanna alk and phosphate. Mag and calc I use Red Sea. (Also, I use the IO Reef Crystals)

I figured they were high as well but it's just what the salt mixes at. I don't add anything to the tank. It's just always been the same.

Ok so I just tested all my parameters and my alk is at 7.2. I don't really have any sps. Just some zoas, mushrooms and lps. My mag was at 1600 and calc at 550. I use IO reef crystals so I expected my alk to be much higher. All my corals look great. Is there anything I should do to bring it up...

If you're looking for small yellow tangs, ACC has a few captive bred ones about the size of a thumb.

So I've successfully kept all LPS and an anemone so far and want to try my hand at an SPS to try to fill the top of my tank. What would be a relatively easy to keep nice SPS that won't hurt my pockets in case it doesn't work out?

finished making the bench I wanted to hide my ato and awc tanks, Made a control board, hung my lights, painted and put a door on my stand and set up my ATO and auto water change station. Super happy with how it came out.

So first I added the chemiclean. Left it in for 48 hours and did a 50% water change. Then I added the turbo snails. They put in some insane amount of work. Then after waiting for Chaeto to become available on Algae barn for like 2 weeks, I finally got it. Did a 25% water change and added both...

However, on the positive side during this time, I've been working on my main tank. Tidying it up. I had a really bad hair algae outbreak along with cyano outbreak. Completely covering everything. I figured I finally got a sump, it's time to set up a refugium.

So a little update. I got the fish switched over to the new tank at the end of July. Unfortunately, I guess ich was in the system but not able to attack the fish due to whatever reason. But the stress from the move to the new tank might've been enough to stress them out. Tank has now been fallow...

Both api and the test strips are the worst for saltwater. However, while cycling, the api test kits will work well enough for you to cycle. After that, I recommend getting something like red Sea, salifert, hanna or nyos

Just tape a picture of your hand to the side of the glass. I heard it works

Put her in a time out lol. Throw her in the sump. Give your elegance time to get better

On Do you have a spare tank laying around? You could always just put them in a 40b for now. I'm pretty sure Petco is currently having their sale

What else do you think you have? TTM is only for about 14 days. The fish will be fine in a smaller tank for that amount of time (just think of the size of the tank when they're being sold). I'm not saying you need to do it exactly how I did. You can always go bigger or multiple containers at a...

You would want to make sure your water temp and salinity match so you just scoop the fish and drop. Minimal stress since the environments are basically identical between the 2. As one of your "systems" is running, you sanitize the previous one by cleaning everything with vinegar or bleach. And...

The thing with TTM is that you're switching tanks every 72 hours (it's vital that you do not pass 72 hours or else you have to reset) so ammonia doesn't have enough time to build up. And if you're worried about it, you can always add prime since there's no medication in the water to make it...

I bought: 2 of those clothes storage containers from target(they hold about 10g each). 2 air pumps Air Tubing A bunch of air stones 2 heaters. 2 thermometers That's all you need.

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