Finally got that salt tank...

greech said:
Yes, it will likely need to be replaced more often in the beginning. You should test your mix water and see if this is the source (versus your rocks leaching, etc.). If so you may want to mention this to your LFS so they can change their filters. Lots of sources of phosphates out there so it may not be your water.
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Called the LFS and they think the phosphates came from me washing the sand in tap water before putting it in the tank and that w/cs will fix it.
 
Doubtful that is the cause unless you dumped a lot of FW in the tank with the sand. If you got most of the water out after rinsing then no, that can't be the case, sand doesn't absorb phosphates. When I rinsed 160lbs of sand I let a garden hose run in a trashcan for 8+ hours to rinse it good and drained it and never had any phosphate issues from that.
 
Ace25 said:
Doubtful that is the cause unless you dumped a lot of FW in the tank with the sand. If you got most of the water out after rinsing then no, that can't be the case, sand doesn't absorb phosphates. When I rinsed 160lbs of sand I let a garden hose run in a trashcan for 8+ hours to rinse it good and drained it and never had any phosphate issues from that.
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Maybe a quater inch of water or something.
 
Do bristle worms become a problem? I saw one in my tank that was 3 inches long.
 
blue2fyre said:
I have a 10 inch one in my 14 gallon and he doesn't bother anything. They are a great part of your Clean up crew IMO. Just don't touch them.
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Are they poisonous? I've heard that some corals have stings equivalent to bee stings and I'm severly severly anaphalayticly allergic to bee stings.
 
I have epipens laying around everywhere, I'll have to add some to my fish box lol.

I have 24lbs of LR coming, hopefully shipped out tomorrow. It's free too :nilly:
 
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Does anyone know what this is?
 
Looks like a large sponge.
 
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