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Old 07-15-2012, 02:20 PM
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Good to hear that your ammonia is down. It was at .5 the other day.

If IPU says that your water is good then I'm assuming they checked nitrate and nitrite and they must be down too.

With all of that death you were bound to have a small mini-cycle.
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Old 07-15-2012, 03:49 PM
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thanks for coming over to test the water
and IPU said my nitrite is .20
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Old 07-15-2012, 03:53 PM
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IPU said my nitrite is .20


^^^ since when is nitrite good for fish???


i got a feeling your gonna lose alot of money in this hobby, good luck with your tank man
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Old 07-15-2012, 04:29 PM
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You had an electric flame scallop as well?
I'm not trying to pick on you but you seem to be ignoring the advice people are giving you.
You need to stop looking at the money part of the problem but as to the livestock that are getting killed unnecessarily.
http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/li...dcover%29.html
You should get this book. It's a good read.
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Old 07-15-2012, 04:42 PM
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No, you need test kits and proper water parameters first.

If your limited budget precludes this then you're in the wrong hobby.
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Old 07-15-2012, 04:48 PM
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You guys are wasting your breath.
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Old 07-16-2012, 03:57 AM
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Live and learn. You can lead a horse to water can't make it drink. This guy will figure out what's right/wrong or proper/improper the hard way. The expensive way.
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Old 07-16-2012, 06:03 AM
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I will buy a test kit asap
i bought a Refractometer and a PH bottle test i will buy the rest asap

Is this copepod ?


and here is the corals pic the frogspawn doing well having a small one on the side


and the only reason WHY i dont read the books because i get headache from reading books cuz i got hit by a car lastyear i have some head injuries

but thank you all for helps and suggestion
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If a cuc nuked your tank, guess what? The test kits probably won't be able to test for the nasties it released. They will test for stuff like Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates, pH, and some trace minerals maybe. But they won't have test kits for the toxic stuff that a cuc releases when it dies.


Also, Ammonia & Nitrites should always be at ZERO before any livestock goes in the tank. Some Nitrates & phosphates are "okay", but not Ammonia & Nitrites.
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Old 07-16-2012, 07:36 AM
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Your test kits are more for every day, long term use, IMO, as opposed to mainly to test for right now (post-cuc-nuke). Use them to check regularly over the next several months till your tank matures and recovers fully from the cuc-nuke.
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