OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

jacksandgo: Purity for sure. What you will find in the aquarium hobby is a lot of produts that are just re-packaged non-food grade stuff.

Reeftanks6: Thank you!

chris wright: And that's why I should have purchased a smaller container to test this product first. I bought it about 1.5 years ago and have just now started using it.
 
Ah, gotcha...thought it might be a purity/contamination issue. I never really starting thinking "outside the box" on purchasing for this hobby/money pit until about 3 years ago. Before that, I was like so many others...just buying whatever was offered at the local fish stores.

Obviously, not so bad when you're buying for under 50 gallons systems...a bit expensive when you're in the hundreds of gallons. Now if I could just be a bit more of a DIYer on hardware, I'd be set. :)
 
Look on the bags of lime your thinking of buying and see if there is a website. On the website, the company should have what's called Materials saftey data sheets, or something similar. This will give you handling info and such, but it also lists the contents of the bag.

Here's an example

MSDS for lime

Click on lime and associated products at the left of the page, and it'll find you the download for lime.

HTH
 
I use Mrs. Wages...I can find a large canister in one of our local grocery stores...they have a pickline/canning section virtually year round so it is easy to get...something like $3 for a large container...I bought 2 large containers about a year ago and I still have a little bit left in the 2nd container...although, my 75g tank is just a drop in your bucket of a tank, so I think you would use a bit more than me J... ;)
 
yeah no doubt. I have to research which one I used that lasted for so long and was so clean. I have onlyrecently been experimenting with different media.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12853980#post12853980 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
yeah no doubt. I have to research which one I used that lasted for so long and was so clean. I have onlyrecently been experimenting with different media.
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Not sure how long it would last in a reactor, but when I sprinkle Mrs. Wages in my top off water (1 to 1.5 tbsp per gallon) it dissolves virtually immediate so long as I have a powerhead in there...
 
I just want to emphasize to anyone who will listen, that a maroon clown is NOT a good fish for a coral reef. I just spent more than an hour trying to plant one frag that had grown too big for the frag rack with the end result a 10 minute profanity laced tirade.

I literally would like to strangle that fish and eat it. I have been wearing reef gloves lately because I am getting tired of the constant biting/striking but even with that protection, I still have a horrible time trying to place corals. That damn clown will attack me, the coral and the rock. And I am not talking about itty btty rocks either. I am talking about large pieces the she, with seemingly little effort, will toss around the tank.

So by the time it was all done, this beautiful 4" x 6" colony had all of its fingers crushed off. Plus I can't really place it where I want to. If I thought for an instant that I could hit it with a bullet, it would have been dead a long time ago.
 
Definitely sounds like time for the fish trap, then the toilet flush lol. Kinda crazy how different clowns can have different temperments. My false percs are great, my old cinammon was great also. But Ive heard of these guys being real PITAs.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12886461#post12886461 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
she is always giving me the stink eye.
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Are we still talking about the fish, or your wife now? :D
 
Thanks Jeff. I know some of you understand! :D And Barry...my wife just thinks I am out of my mind. She's the one that got me the 29g Tall FW tank to help me recover from the stroke...let's just say it's gotten a bit out-of-hand yeah? :lol:

Joe, had a cinnamon "rescue" fish here for a while in my QT tank and it was very shy of people but extremely aggressive with certain other fish. It would hide from me but beat the tar out of its tank mates. Fish do have distinct personalities, and that's why it's tough to take advice on fish stocking. You never know what you are going to get.
 
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