Recent content by lastduke

yes, I am going to buy a flat LR and put them under the existing LRs rather than expand LR horizontally. Start thinking about the lighting...... any sugguestion? I did not find a good article to read. What I understand now, please correct me. 1. less than 24'' height, go for PC lights or T5...

It is 20 US gallon tank. with 14 pounds LR already. What you said, taking into account the corals attaching. Do you mean the part(LR) which is covered by the corals will not make the contribution to the cycling? For the damsel, i want to sent them back LFS too, but my wife doesn't want that...

Sorry, I did not follow you.....do you mean I do need to put more or i need to leave some space for coming corals

if i put less than that, will the filteration not work well? from the picture, the rocks have occupied the 1/3 space of the tank.

Here is the pic. I am going to put the corals in when I finish my tons of reading. What you think about the amount of the LF. I don't care about the outlooking, actually, I think less LF more space for the fishs:P. If the 14 lbs are enough for 20G filteration system, I will not buy more.

After a nice talk with LFS sales, I am persuaded to buy 14 lbs LR and put them in my 20 G FO tank today. The ammonia even lower than noon. The water is changed from cloudy to super clear, that's soooo amazing. I did not realize the LF has a such efficient filtration capability. Because the most...

all LRs I can find in local area are cured LF, hopefully, they told me the truth:P I am going to buy 20lbs this weekend

and it was just approved by my Fish Only tank, the brown algae are out of control after the tank finished the cycle. The FOWLR maybe a better choice.

I am going to put 10 lbs this weekend. Do I need to buy some lighting stuff?

After some discussion, I decided to change my FO to live rock tank (coral later, practice the live rocks first). It seems the live rocks help the filtration system a lot, doesnt it? My quesiton is : should I add 5 lbs LR once at a time to make the cycle process restarted slowly or add 20 lbs...

No I am not using the RO water. It seems that there is no solution to get rid of algae in fish only marine tank without live rock. It is the time to bring tons of rock home :good:

20G Fish only Tank, 2 damsels, one clown fish, one fire fish and one cleaner shimp in there. Aquaclear 150/30 filter, heater. That's all I put in the tank. And the sun light hits the tank direclty about 2 hours in the afternoon (i have no where to place the tank). The tank was cycled and the...

kinda of mixture, the water is milky why, the sand is brown ...... how to clean it?

Thank you for you guys sugguestion. I am going to ask LFS to sell me other snails. Which one is the easiest one? how to clean the sand tho? the water is turned cloudy today, it looks really muddy. thanks.