water

Hello! I've recently purchased my third tank, a 30 gallon, and I'd love to set it up as saltwater. (My other two are freshwater.) I've been digging through the research, but I'd really appreciate some outside perspective and advice. My biggest hurdle, right now, is deciding on water. I've seen...

I been trying to find RO water for my IORC mix and Im unsure if this would be ok to use its ro but added minerals pic attached

Hello All, I have two in excellent working condition wavemakers. They come with everything you need and are cleaned up. Ready to be used. I had two on my 125 running at mid-level, and it was very powerful. These are perfect in the wavemaker world. I can do trades or buy each for $50 or both for...

Hey, I’ve had a diatom outbreak recently but fixed it, it was all because of my water. But there were diatoms all over it and I haven’t been able to get them off even with picking them off I cannot get them. And I’m not sure what to do because it has not opened up in a while, I’ve never actually...

Hey everyone, I am hoping that one of you has experienced something similar and can give me some clarification. I am looking at getting an RO/DI filter to start making my own water, those trips to and from the fish store are getting old already. My only concern is that I have well water at my...

Good news, dinos are fought back. Bad news, water is very cloudy. So I have a 90 gallon aquarium that started with dry rock and dry sand. Super low nutrients. I didn't know that was a dinos recipe. I did a 3 day blackout (no corals no fish) just inverts. My fish are at my lfs for medicine...

My 65g rodi container just in the past month has started to smell a little funky whenever I go to fill up a bucket of rodi water. Kind of a fishy smell is how I’d describe it. Figure it’s time to empty it out and give it a cleaning. How do you guys clean yours? Take a pressure washer to it...

When I turned flow oftoday to feed acans, I noticed a slick film on the surface and a few bubbles caught under it. It’s a bit harder to notice with the flow on. I have both return bills and wavemaker pointed at surface for agitation and a Nero 3 on the way. Is this normal ?

Hello, I am very new to reefing and taking my time to learn while also giving myself time to get the right equipment. to start off, I got the red sea reefer tank second hand, 170litre display and a 30 litre sump. For the first while I’m going to use premixed water but I can’t figure out how...

Personally, I've been siphoning out around 10 to 15 gallons of my 90 gal tank into buckets, dump them in bathtub, then AC pump it back in to the display. Doing this obviously causes my tank to become cloudy, disrupt my sand bed, and stress my inhabitants. What do you guys do to lessen the...

Here's a long one. Please any info helps I'll attach pictures of my setup So I might have a leak. Last night about 4 cups of water went missing in about 4 hours. Before this happened, my last recorded salinity was 1.025. And My tank has glass lids that cover the entire top AND a canopy so...

Hello, I've been looking online for a collapsible water storage tank for water changes. This is just to save space in my apartment. Does anyone have collapsible water storage tanks and would recommend one for me to buy? I've been searching online quite a lot and haven't really found one. I'm...

So I guess I’ll start a thread for this tank because I’m pretty happy with it so far. Took a job about 6 months ago working for an aquarium maintenance company and it reignited my passion for the hobby. I’ve had this 30 gallon running for a Year and a half with just a pair of clowns and some...

Hey guys, I’m getting ready to plumb my 310 gallon tank and IceCap 48XL sump, was wondering if anyone has this sump and has considered modifying it for more water volume and if it’s possible and if so how difficult it is or how easy it might be to accidentally screw the whole thing up. The...

hi there. i’m a little over a year into reefing & i just moved 7-8 hours away from a lfs. which is where i got my ro water for top offs & mixing to make saltwater. i cant afford an RO buddie at this exact moment but will be getting on in the very near future. but my question is, can i use spring...

Hey all! I’ve just set up my Waterbox 20, and have added my saltwater, and after 24 hours, added my Dr Tim’s and ammonia chloride. I’ve taken out my filter socks, and only have two sponges, carbon, and bio balls as filtration. My sand was mostly rinsed prior to adding, the water was coming out...

every night around this time(a couple hours after my whites shut off) my clownfish starts going crazy. Swimming fast back and forth in the tank and looking like he is eating. I sometimes have micro bubbles when I need to top off my tank so I just assumed this was always the case. Well tonight...

I recently cleaned a used aquarium that i just bought with vinegar, and i rinced it with water. ive seen other poeple do that, but it only occured to me that it could have an effect on water chemestry and livestock health, like with Ph and whatnot. i have a 55 gallon, so i cant touroughly rince...

I just got my results back. I took my sample the same week that I started a chaeto reactor so know my nitrates and phosphates will come down, but am concerned that my nitrates are 135x my phosphates instead of about 10x like I see being ideal. I’m thinking of starting to dose NoPox but am unsure...

I have a 55gal long tank, all types of coral. Right now mainly softies(Zoas) and trying some sps(birds nest) and Lps (blueberry leptastrea). It seems my Stony corals are having some issues and are not to happy. I don't think i ever thought about how powerful my wavemaker we're until I saw...

Hello, So I have a 25g JBJ Biocube. It was doing pretty good until recently. Been having issues with Phosphates and Alkalinity. So I’ve been going to the LFS weekly and having them test everything. Asking what I should do or not do. I went in yesterday expecting my Alk to have dropped and it...

How do I get my water to be that amazing clarity that I see in so many aquariums? My water parameters are on point but at times my water can look murky compared to some of the crystal clear pictures I see from other on this site..

Why would my fallowing tank of about 1 - 1.5 weeks be cloudy? Should this be of concern? I have a microscope if you'd like me to take a sample. Tank is 4 months old, fallowing for diseases for 1.5 weeks so far.

Ok, so I have a nano reef, its 50L having some algae issues at the moment. But my nitrates and phosphates of course go up over time. How often and how big of a water change should be performed on such a system. It does not use a protein skimmer and is LPS only. After noticing my nitrates and...

My reef has (very nearly) made it to the first year mark - a personal milestone - and despite a few "exciting" moments, we're doing ok and hanging in there... I store 100 litres (Metric, sorry - I'm in Australia) of RODI water in a rainwater barrel that I bought from the gardening section of a...