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That was actually going to be my next question lol. What kind of Shrimp wont Ciclids eat?

Ya, Its a pretty good name. Gave me a small chuckle. Although the Beatles fan in mew would rather call it the Liter Maid.

Na, it defiantly comes out of the sump. The tank is fed by a hose that runs ffom the sump under the tank, all the way to the top of the tank, pretty much at the same level as the overflow. Water gets pumped into the tank from the sump. This causes it to overflow back into the sump. The tank...

It was my friends reef tank. He went on vacation and some type of chemical issue happened with his doser, everything was dead when he got home. In an act of dispaear he gifted the tank to me. Its been in storage a few years, and I am now setting it back up. I WILL eventually make it a salt...

So, I inherited a reef tank that I am converting to freshwater. It uses a 30 gallon sump under the tank for filtration / heating / oxygenation. One of the items gifted to me was a Liter Meter III, with 3 dosing pumps. I also bought a Neptune Auto Top off system ( will buy an apeks...

Magic 8 ball says: Outlook not so good.

Ya, but there will always be some algae. :) I do have a in-line Fluval UV sterilizer to help with that. I think you miss understood. I dont want to keep putting out fires and running from problem to problem, with tyhis or that. But to tweak it into its initial balance and then maintain that...

I am also in the process of converting a second hand reef tank into a fresh water with a sump. This is also my first sump build in general, but I get the idea. So far, I cant think of any reason to not have a sump. :) Especially with a larger tank such as the one I am putting together. I think...

Thanks! I actually have dove inside fish tanks to clean them. :) The Shedd Aquarium here in Chicago pre covid used to allow scuba divers of a certain level/experience to dive in the main reef habitat to help clean. It was actually really really very cool. I usually make a few thousand bucks...

Ya. I added a little bit of Ammonium. But it was also just to see if I had the water cleaned out enough. This had been a big reef tank before I received it, and then sat in storage for 8 years after it all died. It was crusted over in calcium, salt, and grime. I spent a few weeks cleaning it...

Its cool. I used to use them as a talking point to try and get girls back to my room back in the day. Believe it or not, it worked. Sometimes. :) I felt "cool" having a piranha. :) And they always liked the "pretty angels!" As I said, I was young and dumb. :) So poking around some, it looks...

Thanks. Consider me properly chastised, but I was a kid, and it was over 20 years ago, so give me a small break on that eh? We all did some dumb things when we were kids. :) I was considering about 4-5 angels ya. Chicago water isnt very "hard" but it does have a bit of chlorine in it which is...

Howdy all. So Im from Chicago, and just getting back into the hobby after a very long hiatus. Ooooh. About 20 years since my last tank. Back in the day, I had a straight 100GP fresh water tank with just fake plants and gravel and so forth. Nothing fancy. Just easy to take care of fish. Guppies...

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