Recent content by Ted

very cool product

I dont run a reactor but I started using chemi-pure elite when I had a bad algae out break. Took about two weeks but I have 0 hair algae now.

The apex is more expandable and more user friendly but more expensive. I have the reefkeeper lite, was about half the cost of the apex and for what I use it for works just fine for me. Mine runs my ATO, controls the heater, controls the refugium light and has a PH probe. I do not have it hooked...

Diatom bloom from the looks of it. Normal for a new tank but ugly. Diatoms feed of silicates as long as you arent adding more it will eventually die off. You need to be doing water changes with rodi water. Clean the glass blow off the rocks suck out what you can during water changes. On the...

The rock from your LFS will have the beneficial bacteria on it. As long as it was in a holding tank with other rock and saltwater. The pinch of food will feed you system enough to get the rest of the tank going. Welcome to the site !!!

This has happen to me in the past and is the reason I now have a controller on my tank. Like said before me remove what you can, run carbon and do a couple of water changes in the next week. You will come back from this.

Mine ate my hair algae up. Complete in tank lawn mowing service.

Thats what we are all here for....anytime

looking good

very nice....cant wait to see it on the tank

looking good

Honestly two water changes a week is excessive. As long as you are testing and keeping the parameters in check once a week is sufficient. As far as if you cycled I would say yes you have, however the adding of the nitrate reducer could be masking it. Like I said I have never used the stuff but...

I have never used a nitrate reducer, so I dont know much about them. My thinking is how is it effecting the other levels in your tank. That being said I think you are probably doing fine. As far as the tanks you see done on T.V.....well you notice they dont come back around and show the deaths...

My biggest emerald crap playing on one of the power heads.