Low Budget 10 Gallon Nano

Are you friends with anyone who has a reef tank? Maybe they can perform some tests for you? I am not sure about the silicone, but copper can leech through live rock. Usually its extremely hard to remove copper entirely (some of it can be removed by water changes) from the system once its in.
 
InTr4nceWeTrust said:
First off, the lives of humans far surpass the lives of any animal. So using that as an example has absolutely no meaning. Second, any wildlife in captivity is put at risk. My dog is at risk and he gets better treatment than about 99% of pet dogs.
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How do you figure?!?!?!?! It is still a LIVING CREATURE!!!!!!!!! So yes that is a great example. You are a disgrace to all pet owners!
 
Dangerdoll said:
let's all back up for a moment and take a break and get this back on topic.
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Honestly this is on topic! He refuses to buy a testing kit and the proper supplies so out of his stubbornness he is putting the lives of innocent LIVING CREATURES at risk and then he comes in here and asks us for help!
 
From the second picture it looks like you have mostly base rock (dead rock) and very little live rock.

A test kit is an ABSOLUTE!! IMO (and everyone elses)
 
@jagr200
You can tar and feather me when I report a dead creature from poor water conditions.

@FeatherDuster
I can't say that I do. I'll try the local fish stores to see if they can test my water for copper. It'll be terrible if it gets into the live rock. I may have to switch to RO/DI sooner than I thought.
 
jagr200 said:
Honestly this is on topic! He refuses to buy a testing kit and the proper supplies so out of his stubbornness he is putting the lives of innocent LIVING CREATURES at risk and then he comes in here and asks us for help!
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just needing things to simmer down in this thread, Jag... that was all I was trying to do...

however, the poster has said that he will bring the water in to be tested and will be using the RO sooner than he thought.
 
@tarheels910
Yea, a good number of them look rather dead. But they do have very small portions that have life growing. And at $1 a pound, I don't mind too much. A huge reason I'm against the test kit is because of this (not my tank, obviously):
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That tanks has been running over 5 years and hasn't been tested since it was started and checked for nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia. The pair of clownfish have been in there since the beginning. The tank has never had algae blooms or anything. And the tank was running off of tap water for a good number of years.

@Dangerdoll
Thanks for the moderation.
 
Tr4nce, the point to all of the test concerns is, that tank was tested in the beginning, which is what everyone here is trying to say needs to be done, and I agree with that. You will never know if the tank is cycled if you don't test in through the beginning phase of it until the parameters are ready for inhabitants
 
Point taken. I will have the water tested at my LFS for the cycles sake in a few weeks (copper test will still be done as soon as possible). I'm still rather confident that in 4+ weeks I will have enough of a bacteria colony to support the addition of one more fish. If not, I will admit that I was wrong.
 
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