daharley

At least I am in the ac business and didn't have to wait for someone.

Thanks everyone for the quick responses. I guess I had less to worry about then I thought. I was afraid the changes might be too quick as well as too high. Still a noob!! Only a fowlr tank for now plus a derasa clam sounds like he is the one I need to watch.

I wil have to check temp on saltwater it is prob up too I was planning on a change anyway today

Yeah I just got it running house temp is coming down tank still rising slowly. I am definately starting to think I need to look into a chiller. 83.2 at moment. Luckily it was an easy fix.

Reply not yet I am watching

My A/C broke and do not have a chiller by time I made the repair my tank got up to 83 degrees. How much trouble has this caused and is there something I can do? Usually keep it 79ish.

I have 0 experiance with aquarium chillers but I am in hvac and if there is a belt on it that is where I would look first

Do any of you have experiance with keeping octopus? Interested for possible future endeavor.

I have been watching him pretty close apparently they will move to try to find more light if it is not enough and so far he hasn't and still reading up on them as time goes on.

I checked nitrates in the tap water and it read 0 but I know that it is still not good to use it hopefully just a little longer

As far as the Hs crab I have a 220 I can't afford to set up yet in the garage that probably wont be bid enough either with live rock so when they get that big I will have to donate od something.I was thinking 220 would be big enough until second look. So I have a few years until they outgrow me. Derasa clams don't need as much as others from what I have read and I changed the light to a Reef sun bulb 50/50combo actinic 420 phosphor 6500k trichromatic daylight phosphor. If that is not good enough please let me know. also got reef test kits for calcium and such. I am using live sand which after this post I will be going to buy more today so I can start raising it up. I just started using the instant ocean nitrate reducer last week still waiting for results. Unfortunately I am still using tap water but will be switching to either distilled or ro purifier soon. just had a daughter and wife is just starting back to work. I will start feeding less , and hopefully get some lower readings soon thanks for all the help.

I feed 1 cube 2-3 times a day a little much for fish but I was giving extra since I dont want to starve hs crab which I hear is easy to do. The cowfish is definately the best eater. and 25 gallon change didn't change much if at all.

would it be better to add to the sand bed since I have the hs crabs or still lower they are still small. I tested the source and 0 nitrates but I am color blind and my wife has hard time telling between reds from 40-160 . I was thinking possible test kit error but???