jason the filter freak

interesting....

T5's?

Please only jager and cuervo for me .... I was hoping for LR or something

Oh i was thinking it was hobby related Jason <-- 19 years of age :(

One: Your signature is incorrect you've mispelled "gitty gitty" Two: If I'm able to choose which car would you rather me bring Three: What's the afomentioned free stuff, I'd like to meet the people of wamas, however with the gas prices and cars not running off of RODI water yet I'm just slightly curious what the "stuff" is. PM me?

18,000 in fish .... thats more than most tanks are worth

Dave you said something about a variety, If I'm olny doing about a 2 to -2.5 inch sand bed would it be better to have a mix of crushed coral and fine sand, or just fine sand?, I'm going to get a Remote deep sand bed set up and just put play sand in that.... But for the tank, where would be a good place to get that fine white sand, for cheap that I see in alot of tanks?

Can any one tell me wether it's be better to have fine or coarse sany for my bottom covering, as well as my remote deep sand bed??

I'll post pics of my tank asap, I actually have many members here to thank for my tank, some people should recongize the tank quite readily Ok I was just reading a thread on RC and I came across this!! I want to know if anyone has heard about this or has any opnions before I start getting my fish drunk! This was a comment on a DSB thread This has nothing to do with this thread BUT I just came across this thread, Have any of you ever tried the sugar/vodka method. The way this works is almost like the DSB bucket but a lot easier. When you add sugar or vodka ( They both do the same thing) to your tank it feeds anerobic bacteria. They eat the sugar , then the sugar is gone, so now theres a million bacteria in the tank with nothing to eat. So they eat your nitrates, at the same time your skimmer skims out these bacteria that have nitrates. Therefor lowering your nitrates I have a red sea test kit and my nitrates were off the chart. I'm guessing at least 60-80ppm, the test kit didn't go up that high. So I decided to add a little sugar since water changes were useless. In 2 weeks my nitrates were down to 0 ppm and have stayed there ever since. I did not do a water change in the sugar period and haven't done one in a loooong time. Now in my 92G tank I have a few damsels, 2 clowns, pajama cardinal, and two medium size tangs, I have never had a nitrate problem since. I have started manyt threads on this and steered many people in the right direction. Also I do not know one person that has lost any livestock including corals doing this. If any people are interested let me know, I'm here to help

That's almost frightening! That's almost frightening!

Let me know if my help is still needed

I was quite embarressed to post this thread in the first place considering all the work that I had done with fresh water tanks in the past, and that I was Petco's aquatics expert ... however I just want to thank everyone for their number of responses. I should also mention being in college I'm on a rather limited budget... I can't spend $300 on a skimmer. So far the solutions people have come up with are: A remote deep sand bed, which I don't know if i can do in the interest of space, although any one who has seen plans to one, please let me know! A bigger and I suppose better protien skimmer, I like the idea of the needle wheel design, due to I hate messing with adjustable air flow intakes, any one have any views on what skimmer is better than another? Lastly it was mentioned to replace my crushed coral/shell aggrogate with some super fine sand, I've been told I can get this at ace hardware, anyone know any other places where I can get this sand. Once again, I found it way worth joining this fourm and I appreciate all the responses I'm getting: Rember My setup = quite limited space, and a more limited budget! Thanks All!

I like your opnion and I like what I paid for it! :wink: I didn't even think of it like that!! I knew about the nitrogen cycle, yes but I didn't consider to having a way to rid my tank of the final product! Ok, I also noticed you mentioned protien skimmers... My issue is a huuuuuuge LACK OF SPACE, the 55 is going in a dorm sized room, and the olny space I have is that under the stand. There for I can olny add insump skimmers that skim water that already passes over bio balls... any ideas on that?

This is a converstion I'm having with one of the WAMAS member in regards to a system called REMOTE DEEP SAND (filter, bucket, etc. I've seen it called a number of things. Any one else have opnions on this. + What kind of sand are you reccomending for this, I think I've made a mistake in my 55, i made about a quarter of my tank on the right side of my tank crushed coral/shell substrate, and then the center about half is course reef sand, and then the left quater is a course black sand, alot of these tanks I'm seeing seem to have very fine sand bottoms, and reccomendations? For both the remote system and the main tank... basically you see alot of tanks with the finer white tropical play sand because, 1 it looks good, but 2nd it doesn't allow for stuff to settle between the grains as easily as crushed coral, etc. If you have good enough flow the stuff will flow over the sand and be suspended until it enters you filter or skimmer. "They" say that you shouldn't mix different size grains of sand becaused different sizes causes the sand to cement itself (something like that) You don't have to use the deep sand bucket if you put six inches of sand in you main display. I don't like that much sand in my tank so I went with the bucket. I used the yardright play sand from ace hardware in my bucket and mixed it with very fine crushed coral in my main display. since it is silica based you may have diatom outbreacks. mine weren't too bad. if you want you can post my responses in the forum part and see what others have to say on the subject.

I used to keep a 29 gallon when I had my brakish set up to have premixed (salt and buffer mixture) water for the 60 cube tank I was keeping my cichlids in. I had a similar problem, and took these steps to solve it. Put a cover fitted cover over the mixing tank, this solved two problems 1. Kept the mixing water from evaporating at a high rate. 2. Put some holes in the lid to allow for gas exchange. Added 2 power heads, one to cirulate the bottom and the other aimed at the surface at a 45 degree angle to help break surface tension. Added an air stone and air pump to help the water be oxygenated when I put it in my main tank, and to allow for gas exchange. Lastly I put a fountain pump in the tank to pump the water in the 60 gallon, however when I wasn't using it to pump water into my main tank, I had the tube u'ed back into the 29 gallon tank and running and this did two things, allowed for more circulation, but I also installed a cylinder inline with STUFFED filter floss, which at first didn't take anything out of what was suposed to be clean water, but after about a month it made a diffrence.

For those of you asking, my nitrite, and amonia levels are zero, but my nitrates are a very saddening 150-ish I've seen a number of people mention removing my bio media, wouldn't that be counter productive? When I was running my FRESH AND BRACKISH tanks I made sure to never clean all my bio media at once, so I could prevent killing off my backeria... Could someone explain why I'd want to take out my bio media?

Silver Spring is fairly close to me, being that I live in laurel. I'm a bit new to wamas, but I'd be willing to help. I have a Jetta, and may or may not have a wagon at my disposal as well.

None of the live rock came from my 25 gallon, and olny about 15 pounds of live sand came out of that tank, right now I'm using a red sea master test kit I'd love to have a refigium in the first place, but that's going to be the next step after getting another protien skimmer, right now all I have is a sea clone 100 I'm using ro but not di water, because I don't have the set up for an rodi filter I just get the stuff from UMD's labs Yea I do, i didn't mean to say aqua clear 100, it's a sea clone 100 skimmer, I need a better one, I know but I keep getting mixed reviews and no one seems to have on at an affordable price From the gist of what I'm hearing from people on this thread, I'm going to grab a few more cured pieces of live rock, and work on getting another/better skimmer. Does any one have some good live sand, with established bacteria culture. That i can have/buy??

I just switched over from a 25 gallon tank to a 55 gallon tank, and my 25 always had minor problems with nitrates, but that tank olny had a fluval 305 and nothing else..... so over all about 40 gallons of actual water My 55 now has a pro clear aquatics 175 sump, with a 400 gph pump. An aqua clear 100 a fluval 404 and 304 with fresh media 2 power sweep power heads and lots of air pumps and air stones The tank has about 50 pounds or so of decently good quality live sand, and about 70 pounds of live rock with some green, brown, and a little purple coraline algae... and about 8 pounds of heavy growth purple coraline, alond with some other misc orange alge and some plany life. Some one care to help me, I don't know what I'm doing wrong the tank load up until tonight was 8 blue leg hermits and a blue green chromis and a domino damsel (neither of which were mature) Now my load is the same a mentioned before plus 4 more chromis and a slug of some sort that was attached to the live rock. I did a 7 gallon water change, and added some nitrate, nitrite reduction chemicals, and I still not having good luck with nitrates My nitites are Nil so is my amonia The water is at ideal salinity and pH is 8.2 and the temp is 75-78 depending on wether or not my MH lighting is on. WHAT CAN I DO??

Just a 55 for me