I was just reading a million and a half posts ect, and on the topic of Nitric acid, I have one eel, about 5" long, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 hermit crabs, 5 zerba nerite snails and some snails that came on the live rock. I have a 48gallon tank, with 28 lbs of premium fiji live rock that has been in a tank since late fall. I am also running a Rena Filstar Xp2 eternal canister filter rated for a 75g tank. The filter was established on a tank before I used it on mine. I cleaned it really good before I used it without destroying the bacteria in the biological media. My ammonia, nitrite and nitrate are all at zero. I have no skimmer, and bought an overflow box I was going to put the intake for the filter into, then run a skimmer inline with the output of the filter. I am going to go get a skimmer at Ocean on Sunday.
I just prepared 26gallons of salt, it is 1.025 sg, 8.3 pH, alk 11. Temp is one degree farenhiet out of my tank. What I am thinking about doing is putting everything into the garbage can, ripping the tank down, cleaning it to hell and putting it back together. I would obivously age another garbage can of water to give me roughly 50gallon of water ready to go when I pulled it down. I will set up the other bucket today, and rip the tank down Friday I guess.... If I decided to go that way.
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