newby

Hello and big thanks to all that contribute from R2R! My name is Brandon, and after 20 years of being tankless I'm back into it. I started back July 31st 2023 with a Evo 13.5 feeling it was a good entry point. I immediately went all in maximizing the possibilities with the setup but really...

On the 17th of march, I posted a thread called: How to carefully raise nitrate level of 0 ppm to 3 ppm. I got a lot of good advice which I followed. Such as adding 2 clownfishes, goby and shrimp (i got the snails already) in my tank. The fish are doing great and are active and I would expect...

Hi, Anyone who reads my very first post will get to know that my name is April :) I chose "Several People" as my profile name bc I thought it'd be funny to see that several people wanted to ask or comment on the forums. This way the things I post will seem legit. (Some of my jokes I do for...

Hi all! Newby here. I finished a "fishless cycle" then introduced a clown last week and turned on the lights. Water has been really clear all along, but today it has started to get cloudy. Any suggestions? water parameters: salinity 1.025, alkalinity 8.5, pH 8.0, temp 77.1, nitrates 20...

So I may had put my foot in it when I said I've yet to get any form of algae. But can anyone tell me what this is and would a blackout reduce this? Only on the sandbed, brown sand almost. Guessing its the beginning of the ugly stage? Running LIGHT with all blues,UV on 100% and 5% on whites...

Hi guys, went to LFS and they had just got this in-store was told its a green leather finger. But looks a bit different to what I thought was a leather finger. Or obviously not a specialist on them. Or is it just that. A leather finger? Size of a small hand. Looks great in the tank.

Hey guys so I have purchased MicroBacter dry rock bacteria Starter kit. Have a couple questions relating to the cycling. It will be a fishless cycle. And i have a waterbox 70.2 gal (262L) total water volume obviously rock and sand will reduce this volume. After reading instructions about how...