silent183 Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Don't worry about the haters talking about overfeeding.. you said you feed what they can eat. If they can eat it all, twice a day, that's fine. I find it pretty cruel how some people starve their fish, but, hey, that's for their conscience to deal with, not mine. As was already established, I'd say your water may not be so hot. Also, I didn't see your lighting mentioned anywhere.. what are you running and for how long? Running this light from my LFS for 10hrs a day. toofishy.com/product.php?productid=92288&cat=738&page=1 Link to comment
pweissma Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 My 2 cents. Agree with comments about water. Yes, get a TDS meter. Your water should read 0 but if it's a little higher don't fret. Take care of that and then see where you are. Link to comment
jbannick18 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Fish have no concept of "cruelty" Link to comment
GokesReef Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Fish have no concept of "cruelty" But humans do. And fish certainly do have a concept of being really, really hungry... you can draw the line from there. That's a pretty awesome light.. you could also consider cutting the lighting back a few hours until everything is under control. Link to comment
silent183 Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 But humans do. And fish certainly do have a concept of being really, really hungry... you can draw the line from there. That's a pretty awesome light.. you could also consider cutting the lighting back a few hours until everything is under control. Yeah just the blues on really makes my corals colors pop Link to comment
silent183 Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Just ordered a TDS-3 meter from air, water & ice and have 10 gallons of DI water mixing right now for a WC tomorrow. I'm almost positive that it's the water now that I think of it since I had 0 problems with the DI water until I switched to this other water. Link to comment
silent183 Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share Posted February 20, 2011 Got my tds-3 meter in, tested my tap water and it reads 110ppm then ro/di water from my lfs is reading over 999ppm for some reason. I don't think I'm testing it right or something because their inline tds meter is reading 0ppm. Here's some pics of the algae I'm trying to get rid of. Link to comment
justinT Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I always had nitrates until I started using biopellets. I have a two little fishes phosphate reactor with biopellets tumbling. I tried dosing vodka for a bit, but it just seemed to piss off my corals if they got so much as 1 drop too much. The pellets are a lot safer. AND 0 nitrates! And my fish are pigs- so the biopellets do a good job on eliminating 20+ nitrates. Link to comment
TheWAND Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I always had nitrates until I started using biopellets. I have a two little fishes phosphate reactor with biopellets tumbling. I tried dosing vodka for a bit, but it just seemed to piss off my corals if they got so much as 1 drop too much. The pellets are a lot safer. AND 0 nitrates! And my fish are pigs- so the biopellets do a good job on eliminating 20+ nitrates. Just remember, bio-pellets and vodka do the same thing, it's still carbon dosing. Better to use too little for your tank than too much. Too much bio pellets will lead to the same problems as dosing too much vodka. Link to comment
tk3445 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I do 20%-25% weekly on my tanks... it dosnt hurt anything to go bigger to a certain point... also I run chemi pure elite or fluval clearmax both of which are ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,phosphate absorbers. Link to comment
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