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Tank and Chalk basslet.
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How do you get rid of it.
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click the search button and start looking up threads. We have alot of good in depth ones about cyanobacteria and im sure you can find alot more on google. Read up its alot of information.
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would u have any ideas as to what I could use.
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I have been leaving the light on for some periods of time now. What do you think of a phos reactor in the tank. I did think and hoped that the ro would clear this issue up for me.
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Listen to the man:iamwithst
If you do a simple search all the questions you could possibly have will be answered
Much faster than waiting around for an answer on this thread 
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I have a rodi unit so I am using that the tank is 3 weeks old but the water is over 9 months so I just put live rock in the tank in hopes to get a anomie and a clown fish lol I know the classic thing for most tanks
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Just exactly how long have you had the light on? Days? Weeks?
I saw you mentioned this also in a prior post that you kept the water from the reefer you purchased the tank from. Had you added ANY tap water to the tank since you have gotten it? Did you also use all of the sand from the prior reefer? Any idea how old the sandbed was?
What is the frequency and % of the water changes you have done on the tank since you got it?
You need much more rock in there!
Is there a skimmer somewhere on this tank, or just a power filter?
Sorry for all of the questions...but are some of those corals artificial?
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NO tap just rodi water, yes i have a skimmer in the tank and it is working great it is a super skimmer from kent. I added some of the rock in no the corals are not real and the levels are normal. I leave the light on for about 9 hrs a day when u are only supposed to leave the light on for what 5 i heard or 6. The sand bed is aobut a month old with some of the crushed coral still in the bed. I took alot of the crushed coral out and added live sand. I have a 5inch sand bed. I did add one gallon of tap water before i recived the rodi and now i just use the rodi water my salt is 1.026 and my ph is 8.1 .
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Are you doing any water changes? If so, how many gallons do you change at a time and how often are you doing them?
I'm sorry, but unless I am missing something, the sandbed doesn't look 5" deep in the pictures :spin:
Do you know how old the bulb is? Is that a MH? What wattage is it?
If the power filter that you are using on the tank has any room for media bags (where the cartridges are), you might be better served by putting your chemipure and carbon media bag in there so that the water flows through them more thoroughly
I'm sorry, but unless I am missing something, the sandbed doesn't look 5" deep in the pictures :spin:
Do you know how old the bulb is? Is that a MH? What wattage is it?
If the power filter that you are using on the tank has any room for media bags (where the cartridges are), you might be better served by putting your chemipure and carbon media bag in there so that the water flows through them more thoroughly
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the bulbs are susspended 16 inches over the tank,and as for water changes i let the water evoperate and i add new water in. I did a water change last night and took out 4 gallons of water and put in new rodi water. The light is a compact floresent and it is 18 watts each. I have a coral sun and a blue antyinac bulbs. I hope this helps out. I am going to buy more live rock next week until i have enought. the rock i bought is good has alot of coral line algie on it.
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I wanted to add the chemi pure to the filter, but i have been told by ppl on this site not to tak out the filter pad that has been sitting in the tank for the past month. It has all the bacteria that i need. So the chemi pure sits there. I am when I can going to take out the pad when it is ready and add some bio balls and chemi pure and a phosphate spong in the nylon bags. I have enought room the filter is a eclips filter that is built into the hood but you can bet i am going to buy a fluval and drop bio balls in it and leave it alone lol. I had a 180 and a 45 the 45 gallon had tourches and some other coral. So i am no stranger to this hobbie i have been out of the loop for aobut a year so I am just getting back into it. :birthday:
Pedro Nuno Ferreira
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Hi Anthony
Well I'm sure you want to set up a real nice marine tank for fish with live rock and so on, so here?s some help and ideas for that:
Your tank is a cube or almost a cube, which is a very nice shape for a tank because among many good things it allows you to prepare real nice rockscaping displays such as this one from Susan2626 New Photos Of My Tank (
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So before anything else, I would get immediately or as soon as possible, but before anything, 10 to 15% of its volume in Live rock.
Since your tank holds 40 gallons, this means you would get between 33 and 44 pounds of live rock, or somewhere in between that volume.
Once you get the Live Rock, be sure not to let it exposed to the air more that 15 minutes, so regard it as a live animal, which in fact it is only it is millions of them and put it inside your tank. You don't have to get it all at once and put it at once, you can add it progressively but remember to do it before you put any more fish.
Live rock will be the base of your biological processing. In short live rock is called so because it holds millions of organisms both on its outer surface as well as inner surface, that promote the vital life support biological processing, biological filtering, which combined with the action of the skimmer, and the bacteria in the sand bed, will make your tank good to hold the marine life like the fishes. This combination is called the Berlin System
Later we can have a look at your skimmer, since as you mention that you want a FOWLR, a skimmer capable of filtering some 3 or 4 times the volume of your tank, will allow you to keep your fish a lot better.
BTW bio balls, sponge filters, and similar materials are detrimental in marine systems as instead of promoting biological filtering, they turn very rapidly into nitrate and phosphate "factories", two chemicals compounds that are very detrimental to the marine environment unlike for fresh water environment. In fact most of the failures in marine systems, or thought to be then marine systems some 20 years ago, were derived by the lack of understanding of this reality. In freshwater, nitrates and phosphates are a major part of the biological system well being, as it is a water biotope that by its nature deals with a lot of nitrates and phosphates. In marine systems is the other way arround due to the nature of marine biotopes, so if you create conditions that do not promote a marine water free of those nitrates and phosphates, you will be poisoning it. This is e very simple and short explanation, but it gives the idea of what could happen.
And there is more if you want to know. For now I leave you this and the suggestion of not adding more fish until you have enough live rock and skimming
Cheers
Pedro Nuno;-)
Well I'm sure you want to set up a real nice marine tank for fish with live rock and so on, so here?s some help and ideas for that:
Your tank is a cube or almost a cube, which is a very nice shape for a tank because among many good things it allows you to prepare real nice rockscaping displays such as this one from Susan2626 New Photos Of My Tank (
So before anything else, I would get immediately or as soon as possible, but before anything, 10 to 15% of its volume in Live rock.
Since your tank holds 40 gallons, this means you would get between 33 and 44 pounds of live rock, or somewhere in between that volume.
Once you get the Live Rock, be sure not to let it exposed to the air more that 15 minutes, so regard it as a live animal, which in fact it is only it is millions of them
and put it inside your tank. You don't have to get it all at once and put it at once, you can add it progressively but remember to do it before you put any more fish.Live rock will be the base of your biological processing. In short live rock is called so because it holds millions of organisms both on its outer surface as well as inner surface, that promote the vital life support biological processing, biological filtering, which combined with the action of the skimmer, and the bacteria in the sand bed, will make your tank good to hold the marine life like the fishes. This combination is called the Berlin System
Later we can have a look at your skimmer, since as you mention that you want a FOWLR, a skimmer capable of filtering some 3 or 4 times the volume of your tank, will allow you to keep your fish a lot better.
BTW bio balls, sponge filters, and similar materials are detrimental in marine systems as instead of promoting biological filtering, they turn very rapidly into nitrate and phosphate "factories", two chemicals compounds that are very detrimental to the marine environment unlike for fresh water environment. In fact most of the failures in marine systems, or thought to be then marine systems some 20 years ago, were derived by the lack of understanding of this reality. In freshwater, nitrates and phosphates are a major part of the biological system well being, as it is a water biotope that by its nature deals with a lot of nitrates and phosphates. In marine systems is the other way arround due to the nature of marine biotopes, so if you create conditions that do not promote a marine water free of those nitrates and phosphates, you will be poisoning it. This is e very simple and short explanation, but it gives the idea of what could happen.
And there is more if you want to know. For now I leave you this and the suggestion of not adding more fish until you have enough live rock and skimming
Cheers
Pedro Nuno;-)
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