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    How to Lower Temperature without chiller

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

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    19 hours ago, OrangetheClownfish said:

    can i get those kind of house-use portable fans? You know what i mean? They're also called portable industrial fans

     

    as long as they are blowing across the surface of the fan, i remember buying a 24 dollar fan from Clementi fish shops that was rated for a tank about 100 litres, it brought my 20 gallon tank from 29 to 27. hopefully would work for you.

    Frogfish Tank Setup Need Advice

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

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    Hi guys, i've been doing some research on how to keep frogfish, and I notice people recommend 20 gallon tanks for these guys, I'm planning to make FOWLR tank, that uses a HOB or top filter with just one frog fish in the tank.

    I was thinking isn't 20 gallon a little too big if i just want to keep one frog fish, anyone who has ever had experience keeping these guys care to chip in? and also offer any tips that might be useful.

    How to Start Reefing

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    Personally I like small tanks and find them easier to manage. Large tanks tend to need a lot of equipment and more things can go wrong. Plus small is cheaper too. There's this person overseas called brandon429 keeps a pico tank that's quite amazing and easy maintenance. Can go Google his name.

    WTB Overflow Hang on Back

    in Sell off/Pasar Malam Shop

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    Hi all, i'm looking for a overflow box that hangs on the back of aquariums.

    I'm looking for a nano sized one, my tank is about 15 gallons, or 2 feet in length so i don't need a large one.

    Looking for between $30 to $50.

    Let me know at 9222 4080. free to meet on weekends or weekdays after work 6 pm

    Tank crash need help

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    It's not possible to open my windows all the time because when I leave the house I have to close the windows or rain gets in.

    I'm thinking of closing the room off instead when I'm not around to keep whatever is doing this out.

    the tanks look ok, for now but can see the live stock stressed, some died. I worried the bacteria in the tank might be greatly reduced so ill be dosing bacteria for the next two weeks

    If anything happens I'll update this thread

    Tank crash need help

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    hi i have a problem about my tanks that keep crashing.

    this is what happens, protein skimmer overactivate similar to epoxy effect, clear skimmate and over flows. funky smelling water, live stock keep dying or are in great distress until the protein skimmer is done overactivating. and i guess whatever is causing it is skimmed out.

    these crashes have happened to both of my tanks numerous times, and can take from 1 week to 9 months to occur.

    i find this weird because, in the beginning i could have attributed these tank crashes to poor husbandry skills, but i have improved them alot since i was a newbie and it still happens, some of the examples of what i mean by improvements are, stocking my tanks extremely lightly, like having a fishless 25 gallons tank. i hardly keep fish. i wait a month(s) between addition of live stocks, using only RO/DI water, weekly water changes, testing my water parameters like nitrates, PH and alkalinity to make sure everything is constant and if need be adjust it slowly.

    i can be having a very consistent maintenance schedule for months or weeks at a time and then boom it happens.

    what's even weirder is that sometimes one tank crashes but the other's ok, or sometimes at the same time. AND there was once i had a dish of water in the same room as my tank and that dish of water became cloudy and funky smelling as well!

    FAQ about what people suggest to me it is

    Q: maybe its cause your temperature fluctuates, or you use tap water,

    A: i use a chiller and RO/DI, my temperature is at 26 degress. and my RO/DI TDS reading is 0, and i test it every few days.

    Q: maybe it could be your PH levels fluctuating?

    A: i keep my alkalinity pretty high, at 4 to 4.5 meq/l, and the crashes have happened during the day before where PH isn't supposed to drop.

    Q: could it be chemicals sprayed in the air?

    A: if it was, i'm not sure what chemical it could be that it can be skimmed out, and also, after its skimmed out, life seems to continue in the tank. so i would kinda think that it is more biological in nature.

    Q: you stocked your tank too quickly?

    A: i sometimes have nothing in there but live rock and a few hermits that i add over the course of a month. or sometimes my tanks have nothing at all except for live rock. also that wouldn't explain why a dish of water could become cloudy. maybe that dish of water was a one time thing, but it really makes me think.....

    Q: have you tried starting totally anew? with all new rocks, water and sand?

    A: yes. but to no avail.

    Thanks for reading, i'm really at my wits end, so any suggestions would be helpful.

    Why can't we mix saltwater for more than 4 hrs?

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    <p>

    Hi, Based on my personal experience, salt mix that are meant for sps tend to have higher ca, mg &amp; kh. So leaving it for too long will cause precipitations. The water will turn chalky/cloudy. Happened to me twice, once was 24hrs &amp; the other 48hrs. The 48hrs was very cloudy &amp; my tank turned milky after water change. The sensitive sps gave out white excretions but were ok after a few hrs. My flame &amp; flameback angels were seen eating the white excretions. Overall, nothing drastic happened as my water change is around 10%. However, I am not taking anymore chances, nowadays I don't premixed in advance for more than half a day.
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    that part about the salt mix having higher ca mg and kh is the most probable i think, because red sea coral pro does have elevated levels of those.

    i mean it would be kinda weird asking you to mix for only 4 hours, when the moment you add it in your tank its going to be mixing for much longer than 4 hours.

    My 5 gallon 1.5 feet tank

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    Update

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    What happened after my last post

    Ok so thing that happened after my last post from very long ago, was that there was a bacterial bloom that kinda wiped the tank. after doing much reflection and research i concluded it was because i was using tap water all along, and usually i changed water once a week,

    but for whatever reason i changed it twice consecutively and i guess the tank couldn't handle the change in water chemistry further more tap water to me, is like playing russian roulette cause you never know when the water companies might suddenly add more of one thing or the other.

    So feeling discouraged i passed it on to my father. who did some kinda experiment on his own, instead of placing the tank indoors, he placed it outdoors in the sun, using natural sun light as a light source. furthermore no chiller or fan was used.

    Of course i'm not saying chillers are useless, but i believe it depends on what you keep, and more importantly its more about fluctuation.

    i believe a huge part of why the tank survived was because of the use of RO/DI water from then on and allowing the system to stabilize. in other words, once you set up a tank a certain way, just let it run and avoid adding anything to it.

    Currently

    so after awhile my father kinda gave up on the tank too because it was overrun with aiptasia and it killed some LPS he put in. So i offered to put it back into my room.

    so the first thing i did was fix the aiptasia problem, i added 3 peppermint shrimps and used an aiptasia killer. and the results were good.

    Equipment my dad used

    Dolphin HOB filter with surface skimmer, the same one a year ago.

    A airstone skimmer

    Equipment i'm using

    same as above, plus the same T5 lighting from a year ago.

    Livestock

    in keeping with my theme of invertebrates and keeping the eco system lightly stocked.

    3 halloween hermit crabs, 2 red leg hermits, and 3 peppermint shrimp.

    and lots of caulerpa algae.

    I'll talk more about my maintenance next time.

    That's all, thanks for reading.

    two powerheads in my bare tank?!?!

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

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    hi all,

    my tank is a bare tank, with no ios and no sump.

    currently all equipment are hang on, using a HOB filter and BB Nac QQ which is also hang on.

    i intend to get a chiller and a FR.

    does this mean that i will have to put in two powerheads into my tank? big dilemma right now because putting two powerheads on the sandbed would look really really ugly. are there any powerheads that are hang on too?

    is there any way around this?

    thanks guys.

    well, you could just use one powerhead that goes through the FR first, followed by the chiller.

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