#waterchange

  1. Salty_Northerner

    Can diatoms survive?

    I was dealing with diatoms only on the sand bed. I'd siphon them out into a filter sock and put the water back into the tank and the sand into a pale. After time the diatoms were gone and I'm trying to narrow this down. - water change caused them to thrive again. -I put the dry sand back in...
  2. S

    First Time Prazipro Doser

    This is my first time posting on here and I think I might have an emergency with my first time dosing Prazipro. My tank is about 7 months old. I have one Foxface, two firefish, one basslet, one small blue tang ( I plan to get a larger tank next year) two clowns, two cleaner shrimp and two...
  3. C

    Candy cane coral deflated

    My corals have recently been looking sickly. Most noticeable was my candy cane coral. They looked deflated and sick. I decided to do a 50% water change and the next day everything was super puffy and happy. I dose kalk daily and that’s about it. My levels all seemed good so this is a mystery...
  4. B

    How do you do a water change neatly?

    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...
  5. esther

    Water Change / Back up Return Pump Recommendations

    I've been trying to find (unsuccessfully) a pump that we can use for water changes as well as a backup return pump for our tank on Amazon. Trying to get one that's inexpensive as well as sooner rather than later. Can you guys help recommend any that worked for you? Biggest issue I'm finding is...
  6. Jerry Ebner

    Mixing Salt

    I use IO Reef Crystals From the mixing instructions it seems I can ready mix and use it no wait times etc. Anyone care to share how they mix or even store such salt. I do keep a 17g bucket for my tank for AWC . But my other tank is by manual water change so I just mix up and use within a day or...
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