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Im sorry i should have seperated the two topics,, that made me sound like a dumb ass. your right, i know the diffrence between the two, phosphat and calcium i was talking about two deffrent things.......I was mainly asking about tha calcium (Pickling lime)

has any one used pickling lime as a calcium suppliment? I know that pickling lime is calcium hydroxcid and is used with or as kallswagger or how ever you say it, My point is how would you add it if so . since i started useing my ro/di it takes all the crap out of my water but on the flip side...

What kind of sand or substrate are you useing and where did you get it at?

I have never been able to keep them in my tank they seem to start to die within a week or so. It doesnt matter if I put them in moderate, strong or no current at all. I have a few friends that hasn't had any luck keeping them and have had some that do well. good luck with yours.

I coverd my tank for three days and used blankets to cover my tank letting no light in, of coure still letting some of the air to escape from the top and temps stay around 78. My fish and corals did fine and the brown diatoms were gone. Just make sure your tank is'nt around a lot of sun light...

I bougt form them and had good luck and quick shipping

Welcome aboard mt friend The out come will be great only if you read up on as much as you can,and get to now all the local fish stores really well and i mean really well, just remember there in buissiness to get your money. I think 300% mark up, theyll sell you what ever and everthing they can...

Wud up newbie, I still feel like a newbie.....We were all born to die...We do our best to prolong it...There are alot of good people here, Have fun

Thanks rcpilot.....

:mrgreen: my waste water sure is a solid streem :disappoin

I got my water to flow a little more to day. for some reason the pure water comeing out of the ro membrane had a small restrickter on it that was not listed or shown in the manual. I toke it off, It now is a steedy trickle and i got to looking at my resrticter on my waste water,It was a 500...

I think my wife :grumble: going to flip the hell out when we get our next water bill :twocents:. so much wated water down the drian (later i will use on plants) and so little good water for my fish and corals, Whom do i make happy :shock: LOL so as now this is what im doing :bowdown:to keep her...

I think yote had this problem a yr ago he would be able to help. Hes a good ol boy

Chemi-pure Elite is good and thats been doing real well in my tank as far as you said you had some green hair algea, Im thinking thats what you said, An algea scrubber would help with that, Im working on building one and there has been many people on hear that have built them and they all seem...

Welcome you'll find alot of info and good folks here :mrgreen:

We need to get together my friend and do some trading

Well I got it to work its not putting out 4gal an hour but its around 2.5 an hour Ill look in to my pressure a little more later but its working and not leaking for know...LOL Thanks Biff for all your help and every one else...

Should a ro di unit put out more water than the waste or is it the outher way a round. im getting all kinds of waste water and very little pure water. i bought a purewater club ro di 6 stage and the water on pure side just drips out, i have around 75lbs of water pressure going to this filter

The problem I was having is that the package that had the membrain in it says...Caution Element may contian perservative solution...Wet tested membrane elements contain a 1% sodium meta-Bisulfite perservative solution to prevent microbiological growth and must be flushed for a minimum of 2 hour...

Thanks biff