MY 55g build

[Tru2nr]

yes to the plumbing no to the rocks i just recently did a rescaping of my rockwork and am not in the mood to do that again hehe i'll just keep a close eye on my ammonia and make the appriopriate water changes if needed which reminds me im due for another water change here soon time to bust out the RO unit...heh my DI is over half way exhausted already stupid evaporation and waterchanges...i really want to do a big water change this weekend tho im thinkin around 20-25% i've only been doin under 10% water changes every couple of weeks and i have yet to get my water crystal clear

[JoJo]

10% every couple of weeks, is that normal? when i had my 90g set up i did 15% changes every 3-4 days. maybe i was just over doing it, but being new my mentality was "better safe than sorry". maybe uping your waterchanges will help on the clarity, & throw some carbon in the sytem while you're at it

[Tru2nr]

well did all my checks only thing off was my PH was low for some reason so I made the appropriate adjustments and it should be getting back to normal
yeah I'm using carbon now it is slowly clearing up i just changed out the carbon after running it for about a week and a half and god was it nasty...i don't have an easy place to keep my RO running and mounted n my gf doesn't like me using the kitchen since all of the time hehehe

[tbittner]

Mount it on the wall in the bath tub. You can sit your shampoo bottles on top of it. And if it leaks, who cares? Heck, you don't even need to do anything special with the waste drain line.

[JoJo]

hey, if i can lug 6g jugs from the lfs twice a week, it'll be cake for you

[Tru2nr]

yeah well i live in an apartment so mounting the RO isn't really an option lol and i bought the ro system so i didn't have to buy ro for 1.25per gallon of non-salt from the lfs 10minutes away the next closest lfs is about 20-25minutes away and they charge .75 per gal of salt ro but i just can't justify spending so much money on my RO to turn around and buy more heh my ro system finally started working fast after a couple of months and the DI cartridge almost gone so im hoping that it doesn't slow down when i replace the DI cartridge

[JoJo]

if you can hang pictures on the wall then you should be able to mount the r/o unit. maybe mount it to a piece of plywood, the hang that on the wall like a picture. the hanging in the shower idea would work, attaching rope to it & letting it hang from the shower head(not sure how heavy these unit are though)

[Tru2nr]

heh yeah i mean i could mount it if i wanted to but i have a faucet adapter which is the problem not to mention we're moving here soon but big news finnally was able to find a LFS that had a healthy strong eating banggai cardinal so here he is forgive the flash please heh

[Craig Manoukian]

Nice Banghai!

[tbittner]

Those are really nice, peaceful fish. Very nice indeed! Congrats!

[Tru2nr]

thanks i love em took me forever to find one

[JoJo]

nice

[Tru2nr]

so in my efforts to help remove particals i got a filtersock and of course the only size that i can find around here was huge so im going to be posting a DIY of a PVC piping setup to use to lock in a filter sock with quick clamp releases to be able to quickly change and clean the filter sock...this is just a nice teaser for you guys cuz this thing is going to be ugly gaudy and ultimatly very interesting but atleast hidden cuz it will be under the tank haha

[Tru2nr]

ok well the DIY didn't work...i have ABSOLUTELY no room under my tank and i woulda had to use a 4"pvc piping for that..and well thats just a bit big sooooo....i was at the lfs returning my filter sock and i was able to get a nice even trade for this silver tip xenia picture sux sorry heh

[Tru2nr]

and heres a new FTS