Recent content by Dixon21

Aright, i just tested my water again 24 hrs after adding the fish food... ammonia - 0ppm nitirite - 0ppm nitrate - 20ppm what do you guys think?

You seem to understand exactly where im coming from here lol... just fed the tank i will test again tm night and post my results and we will go from there Thanks for all your help everyone!

Thanks again for all your help up to this point just trying to do this right the first time!! :D Ok so I pulled the poly-filter, and the chemi-pure so the "filter" is now just basically acting as a second "powerhead". I grabbed some fish flakes from the store... Should i add a pinch a day an...

This might sound stupid, but why would i want to add a source of ammonia if i already saw an ammonia spike?

I checked there website and they say a brown color change means its pulling normal organic load of of the system... which i presume to be good. I will put the pads back in the filter. Thanks!! Now back to my original question do you think my tank is cycled based on the levels i had provided?

lol anyway, i pulled the poly-filter pad out of the filter as it was covered in brown matter do you guys think my tank is cycled? what should i do?

The rock was from my LFS. I will leave the snails they seem to be loving the tank lol and heres a bit about the system.. 10gal glass tank 1 koralia nano 240gph powerhead aqueon HOB filer customized to hold 1/2 portion of chemi-pure elite and poly filter 50 watt ti heater Marineland Reef...

Hey Guys, Still new to the forum...just had a couple of questions. Ive read alot online about cycling my new 10 gal nano. I decided to go with just a live rock cycle. Tanks been going for about 5 days now. Ive been testing it daily and came across something interesting today... Over the...

What is this hitchhiker that came on my live rock? s1292.photobucket.com/user/dixon2110/library/ The forum doesn't let me post the IMG tags so the image just shows up, so im forced to use the above "url". Just put htttp:// before the above "url" and type it into a web browser it will bring...