brycecouture
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well my inverts are fine , but i will do a 75% change cause it will be hard to take evrything out
20 gallon help!
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miniwhinny
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You don't need this is your well water is good. I'm on well water and don't do anything to it - never have. Right from the tap to the tank it goes. I don't have any issues with nutrients. Not a trace of algae in my tank either.
Edited to say...sorry didn't read far enough to see you have an iron problem...sorry, looks like you don't have good water after all.
brycecouture
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we dont have a huge amoutn of iron , i put conditioner in and all my inverts and corals and fish are ok , i was told my anthelia coral is hard to keep , and it is growing and spreading rapdily , all my corals are ok and growing pretty fast and inverts doing good
We have well water and the TDS readings are far better than county or city water but like everyone else is saying, buy some good water. Ours read right around 40 or so, and I've tested county water in the 90s and city in the 90s as well. RODI is always 0 with good filters.
Get a couple of water containers (camping section at walmart, LFS, or local water supply store-under $20 and last forever) and buy it from the cheapest place you can find since you obviously dont have a regular job at your age. Search around, local fish store, water supply shops like culligan etc.., some walmarts have a water station for filling jugs. Its very cheap and with only a 20 gallon tank you would only need a couple of jugs to fill.
Get a couple of water containers (camping section at walmart, LFS, or local water supply store-under $20 and last forever) and buy it from the cheapest place you can find since you obviously dont have a regular job at your age. Search around, local fish store, water supply shops like culligan etc.., some walmarts have a water station for filling jugs. Its very cheap and with only a 20 gallon tank you would only need a couple of jugs to fill.
Someone can correct me if I am wrong but just because everything looks to be doing good doesnt mean that there isnt nutrients in the water that promote algea growth. Once the nutrients are out of control so will the algea! Its something that needs to be addressed before its too late. There are many people such as myself that tried to use poor water that paid for it later. I'm not trying to be harsh but rather answering your original question in the thread. There is nothing worse than fighting algea that is out of control. I just spent 5 hours reading the peroxide thread and I dont even have an algea problem at the momment lol.
When I sat up my first saltwater tank, a 55g, I tried using well water. It was fine for about 6-8 months and then I was ready to tear everything down and start over. Guess what happened, after 1 year I tore everything down and dried my rocks and started over with water from walmart because I couldnt afford an RODI unit in college.
SushiGirl
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The brown algae sounds like diatoms & the dark green sounds like blue/green cyano, which are common in new tanks. I see you just joined in June, how long has this tank been set up? How are you testing your parameters?
The corals you are keeping like high nutrients.
The corals you are keeping like high nutrients.
jacob.morgan78
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I know this is an old thread but wanted to give some props for being 14 with a saltwater tank already! I was still in freshwater and learning about that at your age!
Learn as you go! You're going to make mistakes and fail at some things! But learn from those mistakes and hang in there. As you get older and make more money, you can add nicer stuff that you learn about now. I think you're doing a pretty good job getting advice and listening already. I didn't have internet when I started with freshwater, if I had, it would have been a lot easier!!!!
If you ever need some advice, hit me up. I'm no expert but can probably help some way!
Learn as you go! You're going to make mistakes and fail at some things! But learn from those mistakes and hang in there. As you get older and make more money, you can add nicer stuff that you learn about now. I think you're doing a pretty good job getting advice and listening already. I didn't have internet when I started with freshwater, if I had, it would have been a lot easier!!!!
If you ever need some advice, hit me up. I'm no expert but can probably help some way!
iced98lx
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Agree with the above post, but remember:
People are posting to help you, and to try to save you headaches and money.
You obviously are on a limited budget (and there is NOTHING wrong with that) but you MUST stay within those parameters. If you want to house difficult things that require high light out put, tons of flow, and ultra-clean water, you're going to have to save save save and add pieces of the system slowly.
They're suggesting not to buy these inverts because we don't want to see them DIE on you and have you out the $50 you could have saved for an Ro/Di system, or spent on good water from somewhere else. Or saved for better lights, or...
See where I'm going? No sense in getting frustrated, just make a list of the things you want, and what it takes to keep them successfully. Are there isolated cases of keeping things in adverse conditions? Yes. The question you need to ask yourself is do you want to waste money having things die if you're not going to hit the jackpot on that gamble?
Keep on reefing and asking questions!!!
People are posting to help you, and to try to save you headaches and money.
You obviously are on a limited budget (and there is NOTHING wrong with that) but you MUST stay within those parameters. If you want to house difficult things that require high light out put, tons of flow, and ultra-clean water, you're going to have to save save save and add pieces of the system slowly.
They're suggesting not to buy these inverts because we don't want to see them DIE on you and have you out the $50 you could have saved for an Ro/Di system, or spent on good water from somewhere else. Or saved for better lights, or...
See where I'm going? No sense in getting frustrated, just make a list of the things you want, and what it takes to keep them successfully. Are there isolated cases of keeping things in adverse conditions? Yes. The question you need to ask yourself is do you want to waste money having things die if you're not going to hit the jackpot on that gamble?
Keep on reefing and asking questions!!!
