i have a 55 gallon reef tank, and im having trouble with the sand i finally got everything stable about 6 months ago and everything looks good exept the sand, detritus appears on my 3-4 inch deep sand bed everyday! i try and stir the sand but its back the next day, i think its because i dont have sand sifters? witch are the best sand sifters? because no detritus grows on my rockwork advice anyone?
So I found my old Aqualog data, which proved helpful. Showed my Alk troubles last year when I was struggling to find a balance. Goal is to maintain at 8dKH. I was testing and dosing daily but struggled to maintain, seemed to hover at 7.6dKH. Info did help, not starting from scratch so to speak, have some data to work with.
In the process of setting up automatic water changes on my personal 120 gallon tank. Received a 160 gallon water storage tank from NTO http://www.ntotank.com/160gaveta.html and a chemtech dual head dosing pump http://www.pulsatron.com/pumps/chemtech/series100.asp. I chose the 160 gallon tank to make mixing the saltwater easier, just use a 160 gallon bucket of salt and fill 'er up with water. I got the 6.5 gpd model on the pump. I'll post ...
Here is a short video of the current tank.
Congrats fishtal 2009 MASM Hobbyist of the Year Award! The very first MASM Hobbyist of the year award was given to Tal Sweet (fishtal) for everything that he has done for MASM and the hobby both locally and nationally. Tal's special interests lie in captive breeding, and he currently supplies several of our best LFS with top quality captive bred clown fish. Tal has been a true inspiration to myself and many others.He has ...
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