Diary of a 25 to a 29

[puffer21]

ok

 

[puffer21]

i have a question if i have a yabsha goby which is better fine sand or a little think sand.

 

[puffer21]

well i have two sands that i can chose which do you think is better for a yabhsa goby and candy pistol shrimp.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=7321&N=2004+113554
or
http://www.petco.com/Shop/Product.aspx?R=7079&Nav=1&Ntt=Sand&N=30 24&sku=708941&familyID=7452&

 

[puffer21]

Well i just got this shipment in today for Dr.Fostersmith. What do you guys think.
Refractometer

Filter

Gloves

Selcon

900 powerheads

Skimmer

Skimmer

 

[gfk]

can you use those skimmers as either hob or submerged in a sump?

 

[puffer21]

ya can do eaither i think i will look later and PM you, but im preety dure either way.

 

[Cutiewitbooty]

yeah you can do either Thats the skimmer i'm getting as soon as i get the chance to.

 

[Andrew]

I cut off the cup on my 65model and made it larger. The pump just broke a few days ago... cheaply made rios.... so Im replacing it with a sedra.

 

[puffer21]

so what about my sand question does any one know?

 

[puffer21]

well i just got some bad news the light i want will not fit on my tank even with the legs. any ideas what i can do? Also i want to put a plant or something in my aquaclear filter to help with nitrates. Any ideas on what i can put in. Also can i have a blue Linka in a 29 gallon tank or is it to small. Thanks for all the help. Oh and if you now about the sand please answer.

 

[mr pink floyd]

get a clip on light form home depot, one of those aluminum parabilic ones for liek 5 bucks, clip it o nthe back, put cheato and rubble in there and its a fuge, that what my bio wheel filter is tuerned into

 

[puffer21]

do you mean get that light and do that or dont get the light?

 

[puffer21]

ok well i have some questions
- is this a good tds meter
http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=RO1351
- which sand is better for animals i want thin or small
- can i get a blue linka
- which is better two 900 powerheads or 1200
- can this lighting hang
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=12113&N=2004+113352

 

[mr pink floyd]

go with a SEIO 620, im doing that

 

[Cutiewitbooty]

no one actully knows what blue linka stars eat so most people can't keep them. I think you need at leasst 100lbs of liverock to even concider having one. a 29 gal is really to small for any starfish except maybe a sand sifting star.

 

[puffer21]

oh ok. what about my other questions.

 

[Cutiewitbooty]

i would just use 20lb bag of "livesand" in your 29 gal.

 

[puffer21]

ok thanks

 

[mr pink floyd]

i wouldnt use"live sand" it is in a bag with no water, air or temp. control, ive talked to people who haev hjad these bags analized in a lab for bacteria colonys, zero.

dont pay for the expensive aragonite stuff either. In or der for the CACO3 to be dissolved the PH i nthe tank would have to be sooo low nothing could live, it would eat through everythign in the tank(except for glass and silicone)

just buy some quikrete for 3 bucks, or if you can find some, throw in a 50 lb bag of southdown, its this time of yar when it atarts showing up.

i haev 50 LBS southdown in my 29, the storm was bad, but when you fill it up, put a plastuc garbage bag over te sadn and pump water in slowly, we did this in my friends 12 cubwe, worked fine.

just dont disturb the bed fore a few days.

 

[mr pink floyd]

i mean get the little clip in lighti talked about, it works liek a charm!