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+1 on what Jim said. You’re looking at a good month….you can’t rush this….need to wait until you have zero ammonia and nitrite. Now I’ve never used this to cycle rock, but you might be able to speed the process up by adding a nitrifying additive, like Bio Spira. Again, no direct experience...

You need to cure/cycle that rock by itself in it’s own tank/tub/bucket with a heater and powerhead. You can slightly speed up the process by running your heater slightly higher….say 82F or so.

Cool, welcome, and I like your thinking…..slow is the way to go with this hobby. Start a “Tale of the Tank” for your nano and definitely a Tale for the 90 when you get that started. I too have a 90 with a 40 breeder sump.

Well I’ve heard different things. One was that all 55’s are tempered all the way around. I’ve also heard that only Marineland 55’s are tempered all around while AGA/Aqueon only have tempered bottoms. You might want to double check by using THIS simple method. I actually use polarized...

First off, I believe all 55 g tanks are tempered glass all the way around and therefore can not be drilled. As far as sizes of areas, your skimmer section will be decided by the footprint of you skimmer. Number of baffles will be a minimum of three…one to separate refugium to skimmer...

Changing pumps will not change your evaporation rate. The numbers you quote are normal. I loose about two gallons a day on a 90 gallon tank with a 40 breeder sump. I would suggest you look into setting up an Automatic Top Off (ATO) unit to automatically fill your tank. Now you set it and...

Jim said it……When a fish has the word “damn” in its name, you know it’s not good. I only had one beautiful neon velvet damsel that terrorized my tank. I can’t imagine three…..it’s not going to be pretty. My guy ended up in the witness protection program and is enjoying himself in an...

An equally good external pump is Pan World. I believe the company was started by an Iwaki engineer, so the pumps are very similar. MAG’s are good internal pumps as well. With 120 gallon DT, you should not have any problem with heat dissipation. You’re heaters might not run much, but you...

Sorry for the flippant response….my mind immediately went to medical grade lasers, which are very costly. That link looks pretty cool….so for $300 or less you can zap pests to your hearts content.

If you give me about 30-40 thousand dollars I might be able to find a used laser and then test it out! With enough energy, the laser would vaporize the miscreants in your tank. Would most definitely work, albeit considerably cheaper to tear down your entire tank and start new! Maybe we...

Having preformed a complex statistic analysis by scratching my head and cleaning the ear wax in my left ear with my pinky finger, I’ve determined that there is no difference in chemical results between the Salifert kit versus the Red Sea Pro kit. However, there is statistical difference in the...

The chlorine should be long gone. Just cure it before putting it in your tank.

Well Herb, if you’d like to hear from the peons, there is a chance that it might be at a members abode in the Indian Lake area of the state…..POST 17.

Danger Will Robinson, Danger! I’ve tried adding a second pair of clowns twice…..both times were total failures. Don’t do it World War III!

HERE’s an example of a cone skimmer that uses a fraction of the electricity of a MAG. There are others from similar manufactures. You can typically pick these up used for 2-3 hundred clams.

The “worm-like” orange thing is most likely a hair or spaghetti worm. Either one is good. Here’s the hair worm that is cruising around my tank

Here’s a Tiger’s Tail climbing the glass: Never really impressed with this guys cleaning ability, so I gave him away. Now I have a Red and Black cuc and he motors around the sand, leaving clean sand poop all over the place. With both cucs, I never saw them eating cyano. FYI, on...

Jim, sort of scratching my head as to why you’re getting carbonate deposits with “normal” levels of alc and calc. If you’re also maintaining magnesium, you shouldn’t be getting all this carbonate deposits. Assuming all things are normal, I’m guessing the microenvironment where the alc/calc...

Bax, for a quick fix today, try your local hobby shop. Can’t remember who posted this, but they found that the carbon fiber rod available at the local hobby shop is the same diameter as the impeller shafts. Now it’s not ceramic, but it might be enough of a temporary fix until the replacement...

All horizontal, vertical, fittings, etc...phase of the moon.....come into play. The easiest is to use the calculator on RC, found HERE.