Recent content by SiNiStEr NaTiOn

at this time I have a small outbreak of cyano in my tank. it's not a large mass but bunch of small masses about the size of a dime right now and some smaller. How can I get rid of it. I will try and get pics within the next day or so and post. 55 gal ph 8.2 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 0 sg...

I know my cuc is low, but i'm on a extremely tight budget, so I have to buy extremely slow, now if someone can give me a general idea how many need to be in the cuc, that will help me. the t8 lights is brand new 10k tubes that was purchased on nov 3, 2011. as far as filtration goes, only a...

tank benn ruuning as a sw for over a year, the light is t8 i'm gonna try and get t5's next year

hey everyone at RS, I know it's been awhile, first off got married october 8, and then on october 12 got bad news that I have throat cancer. going thru radiation treatments and chemo. so my tank on a holding pattern with 2 damsels, a few hermit crabs, and 1 snail. I will try be around when...

I have a 55 that is slowly becoming a fowlr, at this time I have between 9 - 13 lb of lr in it right now. the open area of the sand with no lr, the top of the sand is covered in brown algae. some stats: ph > 8.2 nh3/nh4 > 0 no2 > 0 no3 > 5.0 ca2 > 420 lighting 10K 18" x2 have a protien...

it's been awhile since i posted because of no internet, over at a friend and posting this. My 55 had gone from a FW to BW and to FOWLR. At this time not much in there except for about 12 lbs of LR, 1 Blue devil, 1 snail and 2 red leg hermits. I still have more work to do on this tank like...

I had notice today that one of my figure 8's belly is sunken in. The other figure 8 and my two knight gobies are fine and eating. just this one figure 8 he's not eating at all and he would swim around off and on and rest of the time he stays at the bottom of the tank. What would cause this and...

I decided to turn my 55 into a simple FOWLR tank. This process will be slow, currently my tank is brackish with SG setting between 1.015 - 1.019. My only concern is filtration, currently running filtration equipment when this tank was a freshwater. Should I build a sump for a FOWLR tank, this...

well i had purchase 2 Knight Gobies yesterday. as far as the puffers goes, the 2 figure 8 and the 2 gsp love blood worms the most. and snack on a few snails when they come out of hiding in my 55.

I have 2 figure 8 puffers and 2 green spotted puffers. the SG is 1.010. I need to know what are different foods do these guys eat, my lfs says plankton and I know snails also, but what other food will they eat, either freeze dried or frozen. I decided to maintain my 55 as a BW tank. Thinking...

lily pipes both intake and exhaust do look good, and i have to agree with you DaveK, the price is bit high for glass tubes. but it did got me thinking that since i don't know crap about working with glass, that probably make something like that with PVC. but to get the bends in the pipe I would...

this isn't for my future reef tank it will have a sump/fuge. this is for my fw tank.

I guess no one has any idea's for a DIY mod for a canister. or if my idea could be duable especially the spray bar. with the spray bar not sure on the diameter to use, like the same size as the output hose or go bigger if so how much. then drilling the bar what size to drill the holes, with the...

My LFS had stopped selling them because customers was bringing them back left and right because their tank got fried and even a few tanks at the lfs that was using them had fried 5 of their tank, and they had informed marineland of the problem 3 weeks ago.

question on digital thermometer probe, where should this be at in the aquarium. my heater is in the dead center running vertically and right now the probe is about a foot from the heater with the probe itself facing away from the heater. I'm not sure I have this place in the tank to give me...