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  1. Brian Bivens

    Added Some Supplemental Media to the QuietFlow 75 to Help with Bio Filtration During Cycle...PLEASE Advise

    My contribution? Test everyday once, at the same time. If Ammo > .5 add a dose of Prime. Don’t change the water until 2ppm reached. This is for 3 reasons, 1. Prime will render ammo and trItes safe for fish for 24 hours or so, while still keeping them bio-attainable for your bene bacteria, 2...
  2. Brian Bivens

    Hey Everybody! Long time no see!

    Yep, just updated... We bought a new house and I am consolidating down to one show tank to keep really nice... So, agreeing that Brichardi are EXTREMELY territorial, what about mixing Daffodil Brichardi with Neolamprologus Marunguensis? I guess I am afraid that my crushed coral+ (dead) live...
  3. Brian Bivens

    Hey Everybody! Long time no see!

    So, I haven't been here in ages, so first off, Hi everyone who's still around! So, I just wrapped up a fishless cycle on a 55 and am going to do a Brichardi (daffodil preferably) tank... My wife loves them... Anywho, I know that these fish get extremely territorial when they breed... Can I keep...
  4. Brian Bivens

    Saltwater fish Dying!!!!

    I think you already got some good advice. A 40 gallon SW tank really should have a light stock. I have a 75 gallon set up with 2 clowns, a watchman goby and a wardley wrasse (this is like 12 inches of fish full size), and I feel I am pretty close to stocked with fish... I have corals, and a...
  5. Brian Bivens

    I feel like a total NOOB... quick advice

    Ok, so far, I have a snowflake and an Ocellaris, a Royal Grama and three Green Chromis, 5 hermits, 5 astrae and 1 nassarius... For corals I have a dragon eye zoa, some green star polyps, a trumpet coral and some other zoas (kind of a brown with orange)... 0 ammonia 0 trites 5 trates Using...
  6. Brian Bivens

    I feel like a total NOOB... quick advice

    What about this: 2 Snowflake Clowns (or one black and one orange ocellaris) 2 Purple Firefish 2 Banggai Cardinals 1 Coral Beauty or Flame 1 Royal Grama Then a clean up crew of something like a coral banded shrimp, a peppermint shrimp, 4-5 blue leg hermits, 2 turbos, 3-4 nassarius snails, 3-4...
  7. Brian Bivens

    I feel like a total NOOB... quick advice

    It will have soft corals (green star polyps, zoas, ricordia/shrooms and at most a LPS like a brain, trumpet or frogspawn... I love the royal grammas too... I accidentally bought a bicolor psudochromis before and he harassed my saddleback clown and had to go back to the LFS... I have read too...
  8. Brian Bivens

    I feel like a total NOOB... quick advice

    Just getting back into the salt hobby after a five year hiatus (moved back to Colorado from Philly)... With that being said, I had successfully kept a 20 long with a black saddleback clown, a six line wrasse... Now I have a 75 gallon tank (total water volume 90 gallons) that is almost...
  9. Brian Bivens

    Returning to Fish keeping with Fluval Edge

    I would venture to guess that your trites are way higher than 5, it's just the limit of your test kit. I got my tank to cycle much more quicly by keeping the trites at readable levels. when mine got that high, I did a 90% water change, and then kept them in the zone that is legible on the test...
  10. Brian Bivens

    Denison's Barbs / Roseline Sharks

    oh and BTW fish have been in there for over a week now. (outside of the Neons and Dwarf Gourami...)
  11. Brian Bivens

    Denison's Barbs / Roseline Sharks

    I'm with you, I just have kept tanks without plants for the last decade (reef, cichlids), and would usually see a much more rapid rise in nitrates. My fish are mostly juvies now so I am just feeling out this whole thing. Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
  12. Brian Bivens

    Denison's Barbs / Roseline Sharks

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  13. Brian Bivens

    Denison's Barbs / Roseline Sharks

    So it's been a week since my last PWC and my tank has a bunch of fish, but my nitrates are at 0. (Ammo 0, trite 0 too) do the plants offset nitrate production that much?! Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
  14. Brian Bivens

    Denison's Barbs / Roseline Sharks

    the corys are great. I have never owned any until now, and they are little clowns.
  15. Brian Bivens

    Denison's Barbs / Roseline Sharks

    Here they are. Happy fishes. Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
  16. Brian Bivens

    Denison's Barbs / Roseline Sharks

    ok, I have a confession.. I am fully stocked now (a few inches over ;P ), I went out and got a dwarf gourami and five neons. The neons and gold neons are schooling together! so, final stocking list: 5 roselines 13 neons (5 black, 5 standard, 3 gold) 6 panda corys 3 mystery snails 1 dwarf...
  17. Brian Bivens

    Denison's Barbs / Roseline Sharks

    all right, I did it... I got five roselines, five Black Neons, 3 gold neons (all they had) and 6 panda cories and 3 mystery snails. All have been in the tank for over a week, and everyone is happy. levels are holding strong (0 ammo, 0 trites, 5 trates and rising slowly). I am still thinking of...
  18. Brian Bivens

    Corydora question

    I was thinking more for naming purposes for my kiddos :)
  19. Brian Bivens

    Corydora question

    Do different species of Corydora school together? Would some Schwartz, panda and emerald cories swim together, or is it better to stick to one species?
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