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02-03-2010, 07:35 PM
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the ammonia might not do great on your plants, as for slowly lowering the salinity i wouldn't worry about that as theres nothing in the tank.
Try to find some live rock someone has to much of, or that someone is shutting there tank down, im getting some tonight for $5 a lbs
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03-18-2010, 03:54 PM
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Well, once again much time has passed with no updates. Still waiting to get some LR to seed the system. I will not considered the cycle started until I get LR. Looking at JLA LR. Im hoping they have some because the lfs from here to PG dont have any. They aparently get their supplies from Haiti and we all know what happened there.
Currently I am topping off every 3 days (1gal). The salinity changes from .025 to .029 or .030 within that time. Is that too much of a swing for livestock every 3 days?? I did however neglect the tank for a whole week (no topoffs) because my grandfather had passed away due to kidney failure from diabetes. Its been tough but Im sure my mom is having it harder. Her husband and her dad both gone within just under 7 months and now I have an uncle who is really sick and is being tested for pancreatic cancer. My husbands grandpa is also sick. Hes been in the hospital since christmas and has had 4 surgeries thus far. Hes got colon cancer and they found lumps in his lungs. The docs keep going back and forth whether it is cancer or not. Its like they dont know what they are doing in that hospital. (different from ours). I am also now 32 weeks pregnant (about 8 weeks left to go) and Im scared as hell of "THE DAY". My hips are killing me, cant sleep, BH contractions, nausea, hot flashes, etc etc etc. Its not fun. But feeling my little man move is amazing and I wouldnt change that for the world. I want to get the cycle started and a few macros in the tank before the birth so I dont have my hands in that tank much if at all. Last edited by skabooya; 03-18-2010 at 06:07 PM. Reason: adding info
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03-29-2010, 01:01 AM
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Got in contact with a few suppliers of LR and they said they dont supply rock with macroaglae or their supply lately has had none, etc. Contacted my lfs and they are expecting LR from Indonesia in the next month but need to wait for the cites paperwork to go through. So i guess im waiting a while longer.
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06-11-2010, 05:16 PM
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Update: I had my beautiful baby boy on May 5 at 7:09pm after 8 hours of Labour and delivery. So as you can imagine ive been pretty busy
 The day before yesterday we went on our first family trip to the town over to pick up a few things and to check out the lfs. They did have LR but only a bit left. I picked up the nicest piece they had. The LR is covered in green and red coraline, sponges, some red fuzzy fat tree looking thing (looks pretty cool), covered in pods and shrimp and I counted 3 worms. It does have some nuisance algae but it has started to go away in the short time its been in my tank. All other life is doing very well and hopping around on their rock and surrounding sand. I also recieved some dragons tongue macro algae for free from the manager of the lfs. It was pale pink and it is now colouring up nicely. The edges are getting orangie dots that fluoress (sp?) under my lighting. Tried taking a pic but my camera doesnt get it. I am now looking for more macro algaes so, keep an eye out for my begging in the classifides section
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