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  1. Doest this seem right tank update

    So I did my first water change in over 3.5 months yesterday. recently had my wedding and was just to busy to do the proper work on my tank. when I checked the parameters before The water change they were as follows

    Nitrate - 0
    Phosphate - 0
    Calcium - 420

    how often does everyone else do water changes? my tank is a 60gallon ad has been running for 4 years.
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    Tank Entry , ‎ Water Chemistry
  2. Photo Progress of the tank

    About a month ago I dove head first into battling a cyano problem. Here are the updates from the start up until last friday

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    Updated 05-26-2016 at 03:36 PM by melev

    Tags: cyano
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    Tank Entry , ‎ Water Chemistry , ‎ Lighting , ‎ Equipment
  3. Quick update: More Progress

    After a few more water changes, adding some live sand and manually removing more algae I have come to this look.

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    I'm now heading out to add to my clean up crew and hopefully get rid of the rest of the hair algae in the tank.
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    Tank Entry , ‎ Water Chemistry
  4. Pictures as promised - The battle of the 20G Long Reef

    WARNING: PICTURES ARE GRAPHIC!!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!


    Like I said in my previous post, this is rather embarrassing, but I'm trying to get it back on track.

    BEFORE
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    AFTER 10 gallon water change and picking up/siphoning out as much as I could.
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    I also added a bag of Chemi Pure in my AC70. Giving it one more day, and then going to do another 10 gallon ...
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    Tank Entry , ‎ Water Chemistry , ‎ Lighting , ‎ Equipment
  5. Wow, It's been a while!

    The last time I posted on this site was 6 years ago. Seems so much longer, but I guess with 3 moves around Texas in that time, it would seem longer. I went from Georgetown Tx, to San Antonio Tx, to Arlington, TX, back to where I am now, New Braunfels, Tx. Lots of time spent up and down the I-35 corridor! Anyways in that time I have gone through several tanks and none have survived the moves. I ended up selling livestock and tanks, but for the last 2 years I have had a 20 gallon long going. Well ...
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    Tank Entry , ‎ Water Chemistry
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