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salifert,like i said av tried various test kits down at the store.

hi guys, my reefs doin fine,my calcium is 510,kh 13,any ideas how to get calcium down,ive tried the waitin game and its not droppin,water changes dont move it. 5 gal a week of ro drops my kh but calc dosint move, using kent salt,not added any calc for 4 weeks,but still it reads...

hi guys, my reef as been runnin fo 2 years,just before xmas i decided to upgrade my filter,my fluval 304 canister was 4 year old it started gettin noisy and it was loosing its flow rate. i bought a interpet prime 30 canister which i added on the 13th of december,running along side my old fluval...

hi guys happy xmas every one. i just wondered out of interest what is your favourite animal in your tank,and why, mine as to be my pair of cleaner shrimps,these guys are so friendly and full of personality i think sometimes they are allmost human. :D

hi guys, my friends reef tank as been runnin 2 years on a under gravel filter,also he as a internal fluval 3 and a internal fluval four running with the undergravel,now what would you do,he as invested in interpet prime 30 which as been runnin now for two week.iam led to believe that...

hi guys, how deep is the perfect sand bed,can it b to deep,i no some people have no sand in there tanks,how deep is yours,is it best to have a half inch depth or should it be deeper and why,what is the differance...

hi, is it possible that a carpet anemone could eat a yellow tang,he is about 8 inch in diam and is fed twice a week,i know they eat fish,my tang went missing 3 days ago vanished of the face of the earth,after stripping the tank down to the sand bed there is no sign of him...

hi, is it possible that a carpet anemone could eat a yellow tang,he is about 8 inch in diam and is fed twice a week,i know they eat fish,my tang went missing 3 days ago vanished of the face of the earth,after stripping the tank down to the sand bed there is no sign of him...

hi, what r the reasons why ugf r not recomended for reef tanks,i no a couple of people keeping reef tanks on ugf and everything is fine. :D

hi guys my yellow tang as vanished of the face of the earth,he had been missin for 3 days then i decided to start lookin for him,after lifting and movin rocks around he wasint found. i decided i had to strip my rock work down,eventually i had just tank sand and water,i searched evey inch of the...

hi my ph as been dropping so i started addin buffer 3 days ago,when testing for kh and ph after 3 days readings r still the same,kh 12,ph 7.7,usually when i had buffer within hrs ph as gone up,i have plenty of water movement breaking the water surface so c02 shouldint b the problem. all other...

hi, iam pulling my hair out with ph dropping,ive wrote threads asking for advice with this on going problem and nothing seems to work,i cant hold my ph above 7.8,ive tried everything even read the article on solving ph problems. right ere we go tried air stones thinkin it might be c02,tried...

hi guys, i introduced a naso tang to my system,48 hrs later he dosint look to good,in the store he was looking very healthy and colorfull now hes gone very dark and looks stressed. all my other tank mates r fine and my water checks out ok,he was acclimeatized for hours before goin in my...

i dont chase ph levels with buffers,your asking for more trouble,it will raise your ph,but it will also raise your kh,as i said my kh is at 11 addin more buffer will raise my kh of the scale,i also think if your ph is 7.6 i would look at raising to 8.1-8.3 if it drops any lower you could be in...

hi guys, any ideas why my ph keeps dropping,i thought i had high c02,i put air stones in to try but it still drops,my reef is runnin fine and everything is lookin good,i thought it was faulty test kits,my lfs tested with 3 ph kitts.i bought kent true ph plus which raises the ph...