Yes hoopsdaddy Aquatic Treasures does have live rock, cured I don't know, never asked! When I got the tank it had lots of live rock and crushed coral as the substrate until my husband replaced it with gravel :frustrat:. So I believe the tank now has problems because of all of that!I don't...
Yes you all have helped out grealty, thanks all!!!!!!!!! But I don't think I have 1-2lbs of live rock per gallon in my tank, eck!! Wanted to give the fish room to swim, guessing I need more.(that's why I'm a newbie) How do you know when you have enough other than by weight??
The new shimmer is up and running doing better than the old one. Thank you for the help. My fish are very important to me and any more info or suggestion are surely welcome!!!! Thank you again, Amy
Ohhh sorry, forgot to add, The last water change the nitrates were at 40 and almost a month has pasted and still there. 3 months ago we were doing it every week so we could get the nitrates down. I do full testing every 3 days.
We got a new skimmer which I think has helped it greatly. A piece was missing on the old one! Second I don't overfeed the lionfish. I feed him frozen shrimp and he will almost take it from my fingers!! With the tang I will feed brine shrimp and algae tablets. Maybe that's what's creating the...
I am a newbie with saltwater and sorry if you have had to explain this before but I have been reading some of the posts on high nitrates and have read where canister filters can cause high nitrates along with bio balls! Have been told that they are second only to sump filters. I have 3...