twogirls

i forgot all about a yashia, a yashia with a pistol shrimp would be perfect

 

 

that pair and a yellow assessor and your set

That would be my choice.

Everything is always on days I cant goDOH!

Really open to anything, dont really want to sell it. Cause I would be responsible and pay bills with the money and have no tank:D

Sounds like I am not the only one focusing on becoming a better person. To be honest I have been looking at my tank now for about 2 weeks or so and I can't honestly say that I am committed to it anymore. I have been considering just selling it all and getting out for a little while.

I did it a couple years ago. It was nice but I craved a new tank all the time. And am back.

Welcome!!

I have a 30g Oceanic cube. its comes with a 150w sunpod about 50 pounds of live rock and 30 pound sand. glass top, a custom made sump, Tunzee skimmer and a few random corals nothing great.. Looking to trade for a bigger tank. With and many accesories as possible. Does not have to be set up or anything just really want a bigger tank. Let me know if your some what interested.

I have always used lemon juice. take a needle and shoot a little into them.

What is an acceptable temp swing in a day?

For me, frequent water changes never got the nitrates to stay down.

I finally succumbed and built a sulphur nitrate reactor, and now it's easy.

How easy was that to build? How much?

how big a change are you doing? what salt are you using? that could be part of the problem. as for the PH' date=' try adding a small, read tiny, pinch of baking soda, i was having a chronic ph of 7.9-8.0 using oceanic salt, and start dosing baking soda, bam, ph stays nice and steady at 8.4 now, im quite happy with it lol[/quote']

 

Im doing a 10 gallon change, I use kent salt

yeah still 25. Been doing weekly changes for 5 weeks. and just not coming down.

Hm, at that age and with the lighting you have, sps should do fine.

Did you acclimate them?

 

The nitrates need to come down, though.

I was never successful with sps until I got my nitrates below 5ppm.

I acclimate everything. retesting my trates right now.

What type of lighting do you have?

The 25 Nitrates is probably part of the reason your sps are dying.

I have a 150w 20k radium

you might want to look into dosing for alk and ph for starters, and then do a quick check to make sure nothing has dropped into the tank that shouldnt be there.

 

what salt do you use?

I have been dosing for ph

Tank is almost a year. everything looked great untill about a month and a half ago.

Friend gave me some sps frags to see if they would make it cause I have not put anything new in for a while. And within a week dead.(flame)

alk needs to be higher' date=' ph needs to be higher, nitrates need to be lower, what salt are you using? what test kits? whats your salinity at? do you have use a refrac or a hydro? got any pics? how old are your test kits?[/quote']

 

Kent salt, Salifert kits, Salinity .025, i use a refrac. kits are about six months old. no pics sorry.

Ok I have a 30 cube. slowly everthing is dying. Have lost all sps and all but 1 fish. have some zoas that look ok but thats it.

Nitrate 25

Amm 0

ph 8.0

Calcium 490

Nitrite 0

Alk 8.2

Mag 1200

Phos .03

Done weekly water changes, just cant see a major problem.

HELP(flame)

PM sent!(naughty)

sent you a pm:D:

Holy smokes(scary)(scary) Thats alot of fish for a 40 gallon. How long have they been in there?

Black Butte Porter(rock2)

pm sent(plotting)(plotting)

You still have the tank?

Nice Eric!