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Old 01-31-2012, 04:57 AM
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Ya, that's the hard to find part. Shelley lent me an aquaclear that I added some rock rubble, and I added another 5 pounds of LR, but it's not enough. making 50g right now and staying up late for a water change. Which sucks, since I have to get up at 5am!!
I've got one more of those big aqua clears if you need it just ask.
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Old 01-31-2012, 04:59 AM
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I've got one more of those big aqua clears if you need it just ask.
Shelley, this one is big enough, I'm just short on bacteria I've got a bunch of rubble under one of the foam blocks, but the water is a bit cloudy tonight and the fish are breathing a bit fast for my liking. I added some prime to the tank, so that should help with the NH3 a bit. I hope. New water in progress, although I should probably let it mix until morning.
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:03 AM
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What about if you filled an old nylon( I know you have a few!) with live sand, either from E's tank or I could scoop you some and filled the filter up with that?
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:08 AM
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What about if you filled an old nylon( I know you have a few!) with live sand, either from E's tank or I could scoop you some and filled the filter up with that?
That may work. I took all the rock from her sump already
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:12 AM
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Wonder how long it would take to seed a new canister filter? You may want to get one and start it in E's tank or bring one over here and I can set it up and stir my sump up really well.. Lots of good gunk hiding in there. I'm thinking your going to be needing something for a month or 2 at least to leave your display fallow.
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:14 AM
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Wonder how long it would take to seed a new canister filter? You may want to get one and start it in E's tank or bring one over here and I can set it up and stir my sump up really well.. Lots of good gunk hiding in there. I'm thinking your going to be needing something for a month or 2 at least to leave your display fallow.
I think it takes about 3 weeks. I'll scoop some sand, and I bought a bucket of IO and prime, so I can do lots of water changes for a couple of weeks
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Old 01-31-2012, 01:28 PM
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the fish are breathing a bit fast for my liking.
I added a bunch of bubbliers to my qt tank, it seemed to help, also FW dips really helped the fish breathe better. Fairly certain I would of lost my king angel if I hadn't done a FW dip on him.
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Shelley, this one is big enough, I'm just short on bacteria I've got a bunch of rubble under one of the foam blocks, but the water is a bit cloudy tonight and the fish are breathing a bit fast for my liking. I added some prime to the tank, so that should help with the NH3 a bit. I hope. New water in progress, although I should probably let it mix until morning.
Not sure what you are looking for, but I've got some rock that I took out of my tank because it was all covered with hydroids. It is cooking in a bucket and there is LOTS of crap on these!

I could trade you for some other rock as I guess the treatment tank is going to nuke the rock from ever being used in a tank again due to the copper - correct?
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Old 01-31-2012, 04:00 PM
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Not sure what you are looking for, but I've got some rock that I took out of my tank because it was all covered with hydroids. It is cooking in a bucket and there is LOTS of crap on these!

I could trade you for some other rock as I guess the treatment tank is going to nuke the rock from ever being used in a tank again due to the copper - correct?
Not using copper, but I'm not sure that what I'm using won't nuke the rock also. I don't have any spare to trade, but thanks. I can probably get a whack of rubble at Safari, he's got tons in the sumps.
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Just read your thread..

I'm so sorry you have to deal with this. Hope everything works out okay for you!
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