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Need some advice about a friends 125 gal tank that im helping him with. About a month ago i added abunch of corals and tested his tank. 3/28 No3 28.4 Po4 .14 Dkh 7.6 Not bad numbers. I went by last week and his tank is covered in everything gha, cyano etc. So last week i changed 15 gal of...

So I woke up in the morning to water on the floor and my fish tank destroyed. My 3 year old was dumping sink water in the tank, knocked over my rocks, killed my male clownfish (clean up crew was eating him and the female is still alive but swimming like it’s drunk (probably because the saltwater...

Looking for personal experiences of reefers who started out using tap water in their system and then switched later to RODI. Curious what problems you had before that the RODI fixed, issues you had that were not fixed, or even changes you experienced with your parameters afterwards. For me...

Hi everyone! I have a 40 gallon tank that has live rock and live sand as well as an artificial plant (until I get into all the reefing stuff once I’m more established in a year or more). I cycled my tank using the fritz turbo start 900 and ammonia method. After it was successfully cycled, I...

Hello, I am in the process of starting a 16 gallon macro algae lagoon aquarium with some invertebrates. I was curious if RODI water was necessary for a macro algae tank like it is for a coral heavy aquarium. I am not necessarily opposed to RODI but I live in a studio and there are not any...

happy to show of my blue marine reef 60, a poppulair beginner tank here in the netherlands. its a AIO kit that comes with al the basic needs. only thing i did was hook a light inside the second chamber to grow cheatoband microfauna like copepods. first chamber ive got a small skimmer witch...

So in a continued effort to understand what's in my City Water and what poses a potential risk and would need to be filtered and treated for a tank (Fish Only With Inverts), I found my local plant water quality report, and am curious from others who have more knowledge than me, how good (or bad)...