My 20-Gallon (Tall) Softie/lps Nano-Reef!

[Dark_ice]

 

But of course that can't be it?!

 

(sarcasm)

lol kat keep kinda clam now

[metrokat]

lol kat keep kinda clam now

if you only knew how many threads OP has started about the same issue.

[jadedanime]

You know I wish I had as much nitrates as her..then my cycle would be easy to complete..lol

[Dark_ice]

You know I wish I had as much nitrates as her..then my cycle would be easy to complete..lol

dump food in your fishless tank and der ya go!

 

 

if you only knew how many threads OP has started about the same issue.

i have an idea.. i feel your pain

[jadedanime]

dump food in your fishless tank and der ya go!

 

 

 

i have an idea.. i feel your pain

 

Bhahaha ...ill do a whole can that's enough right? Maybe I should do two?

[Dark_ice]

err turn off all the filtering dump 3 cans of food and 5 cubes of mysis and a raw shrimp an run a light 5 days straight. you will have a amazing tank!

[metrokat]

err turn off all the filtering dump 3 cans of food and 5 cubes of mysis and a raw shrimp an run a light 5 days straight. you will have a amazing tank!

I'll send some of my skimmate and snail poo too.

[jadedanime]

Lol oh glaceon you're great.

 

And thanks Kat! This cycle will be one to remember! Lmao

[Dark_ice]

I'll send some of my skimmate and snail poo too.

theres a good deal!

[Fishgirl2393]

Alright. This is my tank thread so stop. I'm doing a water change tonight so quit.

[Fishgirl2393]

I did an 8-gallon water change. Nitrates (right after change) were down to about 50ppm. So, still will need some more water changes but it's coming down slowly (and based on my calculations, they're right where they should be after removing 8-gallons of water). So, maybe next time (in a few days) I'll do a larger one (12-13 gallons) to get them lower still. Corals still look good and I'm going to get on top of this no picture thing very soon!

[Dark_ice]

doing reading right after a water change sometimes will not be the correct reading, hence steering up the substrate

[Fishgirl2393]

Yeah, I know. I'm going to test tomorrow too. It would be GREAT if they're even lower but I doubt that. So, pics will be coming MAYBE tomorrow.

[Acielot]

Corals still look good and I'm going to get on top of this no picture thing very soon!

+1 for Peeshures.

[Dark_ice]

they most likely will be lower because the substrate was messed with, nitrates are in there..

[jedimasterben]

If the tank doesn't have a lot of coral (or just has some hardy ones), just do a 100% change and be done with it instead of pussyfooting around with little changes.

[ihatesears18]

listen to jedi

[Fishgirl2393]

[Acielot]

Looks better than last time.

[Fishgirl2393]

Thanks! I think so too! Still need to lower those nitrates but the corals are doing well. Oh and I found an Asterina starfish today.

[Passaggper]

What's going on here?

http://s852.photobucket.com/user/jrusiad/media/reef1.jpg.html'>

[Dark_ice]

^ LOL

 

 

/dat limp status

[Fishgirl2393]

What's going on here?

Well, that was a freshly fragged xenia that I had JUST gotten from a local reef club member. My other xenia (as you probably see from the picture) looks good (both frags of it). He warned me that it didn't look good and all so I put it in the tank to see how it did. It's not in there any more because it didn't look good after a day and so I moved it to my quarantine tank that's cycled just to give it a chance. It's still there but doesn't look good so I'm not sure if it's going to make it or not.

[Fishgirl2393]

So, I've come to the point where I need to replace the bulbs in my T5HO fixture (4). So, seeing that they will be somewhat expensive (though I'd be replacing one at a time probably), I've been LOOKING into an LED fixture. However, I'm not going to spend a TON of money on LEDs so it'll have to be less expensive if I go that way. I can say that my tank won't be SPS dominate BUT I can't rule out the possibility of a couple of SPS. So, here are a few I've been looking at. Let me know what would work.

http://www.aquatraders.com/BeamsWork-HI-LUMEN-LED-Fixture-Quad-1W-24-TR-p/56273.htm

http://www.aquatraders.com/LED-Aquarium-Lighting-featuring-1W-LED-p/56213.htm

http://www.aquatraders.com/LED-Aquarium-Lighting-featuring-1W-LED-p/56207.htm

http://www.aquatraders.com/EVO-Quad-24-LED-Reef-Bright-TR-p/56261.htm

http://www.aquatraders.com/EVO-24-LED-Reef-Bright-p/56232.htm

So, are any of these any good? Which one(s)?

[jedimasterben]

No, no, no, no, and no.

 

Buy something quality the first time and you'll avoid having to spend much more in the long run. At the very least, purchase two QUALITY PAR38 bulbs (such as Coral Compulsion's new ones coming soon, or LEDtric), or a Reefbreeders Value fixture.