Freshly started SW
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so you mean to tell me that water coming from a natural spring is better than water that has no impurities? so I should use natural spring water for water changes rather than distilled
You don't have and LFS's that sell RO water? You might be able to find a better deal on an RO unit off ebay or somewhere. It will definitely pay for itself.
If you can't get RO, go with the filtered water from Wal-mart, etc. The kind you dispense yourself.
If you can't get RO, go with the filtered water from Wal-mart, etc. The kind you dispense yourself.
distilled water is completely pure of everything even the good things for your fish and corals. Unless you plan on dosing for those missing additives then by all means do it up
oh ok cool, what else might i expect to pop out of the rubble rock besides my three feather dusters.....??
Did a water test tonight,
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 0
PH: 7.8
temp: 79
S/G: 1.028
so its been a couple days and I still dont see any ammonia, is this normal? Once again I used Nutri-Sea already mixed water to start the tank off and 2.5 pounds of ruble rock that was partially cured. Not tryin to be a pain I just dont want any screw ups. Shouldn't there be any die off from the live rock by now? Thanks for all the comments and answering all my rhetorical questions.
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 0
PH: 7.8
temp: 79
S/G: 1.028
so its been a couple days and I still dont see any ammonia, is this normal? Once again I used Nutri-Sea already mixed water to start the tank off and 2.5 pounds of ruble rock that was partially cured. Not tryin to be a pain I just dont want any screw ups. Shouldn't there be any die off from the live rock by now? Thanks for all the comments and answering all my rhetorical questions.
just thought i'd give everyone an update.... we now have 3 blue leg hermits and one red tip, all about 1/4" big. Last night we got a small frag of yellow colony polyp about 4"-5" in size for $25 at our LFS in blackwood. I'm gonna try and get good pics in a few minutes. Did a little re-scaping also.
