Recent content by Rod013

These bubble have legs and tails..... :D The LR was only out of water for maybe 30 minutes at the most. I think I will only add a couple of crabs and few snails this weekend.

Day 14 Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 0 pH 8.0 Ca 480 Temp 78.5F – 79.5 Salinity 1.024 dKH 10.4 Water was cloudy for some reason yesterday and today I think I know why. I seem to have an outbreak of copepods. Tiny white specs all over the place. From what I have read this is not a...

Day 12 Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 0 pH 8.2 Ca 420 Temp 78.5F – 79.5 Salinity 1.021 I think everything is looking pretty good except for my salinity. I am having troubles keeping up with my evaporation. The pump I ordered would not work with my ATO so I am topping off...

Checked water this morning and still all zeros across the board. Starting to see a few things pop up but VERY tiny at the moment. As soon as they get big enough to see in a pic I will get some posted. I have very little algae growing at the moment as you can see in the pic. Not sure what type...

I will just sit back and wait even though I REALLY want to add my CUC. :-) I will get some more pics posted as soon as there is more to show.

Okay, will get the sand off the rocks ASAP. I have the 6025 but I do not have it on the wavemaker function as it will not work at all. Everytime the Tunze restarts it runs in reverse. My substrate is call Indopacific Black Sand. The skimmer came with the tank package, I believe it is a...

Hello My new Cadlights 34G has now been set up for 6 days. I started testing the water after day 3 and now it is day 6 and I have no trace of ammonia, nitrites or nitrates. Is this common when cycling with cured LR? I thought I would have at least seen some type of spike in my water? My SG...

I live in Dallas Texas and there are plenty of LFS to pick some rock from. You are correct about the shipping cost and I will be very selective about the look I am going after. Thanks for the advice about a refractometer, I think I will spend the extra and pick one up.

Okay, here is what I have narrowed down my choices to after HOURS of reading this forum and MANY trips to LFS: *28G Nanocustoms JBJ 28g Nano Cube HQI 186w OR *25G 150w HQI, 2 x 24w actinic T5, refugium with Tunze nano skimmer (I don't want to do any mods to the tank and want to keep clams...