Whats for sale in the DC/MD/VA area....
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I don't think it will work. That brings up another item i forgot to mention which is a TDS meter. You will need one cuz this will show if the water you have is 100% pure. If you test the water from your undersink filter with a TDS and if it shows reading other than 0 then it is not pure water. The ro/di units that are made for the hobby will produce 100% pure water and will take a day to produce 25-75 gallons depending the capacity, and have a 1 to 4 ratio. This means that for every gallon of pure water you will get 4 gallons of waste water. The reason why this is, I don't know. All I know is that no company has made a ro/di unit that has a no waste water ratio.
Jamieishard;2148596; said:
Great! You two are more than welcome to come along!
Oh yea, forgot to add, the front is a male too. My big alpha male front snapped one day and decided that there was only room in my tank for 1 male front, this is the second time he's almost killed another male in my tank............he's such a prick!
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On a 20 with 2 fish and 1 anemone you could more than likely get by with a Skilter, low tech, old school filter / protien skimmer. When i first started out in the salt hobby that was about all there was out there. As far as water goes, if you want to keep soft corals and the like, pure is better for sure but for a low tech approach you can use the water from the sink in the kitchen. I used straight tap water for years and years with tetra dechlorinator with decent results, never had a lot of corals at that time but the inverts i did keep did well. In the keys I went to a breeding facility that kept pairs of clowns of all kinds in 29 gal tanks with undergravel filters covered in crushed coral with a clay pot for them to lay on. They had literlay HUNDREDS of tanks set up like this and all of their water came from the county, and trust me the water in the keys is hevily treated to the point you cant drink it due to taste. So long as your not going to get carried away, a plastic hydrometer will work for salinity checks and I always mixed my water in a bucket with a powerhead thrown in it. 10 minutes later i was pouring it in the tank. clowns are tough, especially the farm raised ones. farm raised may take some time to host the anemone you provide but if you feed near it they will learn to get into it.
Short of it is, low tech can work as long as you dont get carried away with what you put in it. 2 fish and an anemone can be done rather cheap and easy, light would be my point of concern and it sounds like that base is covered.
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Short of it is, low tech can work as long as you dont get carried away with what you put in it. 2 fish and an anemone can be done rather cheap and easy, light would be my point of concern and it sounds like that base is covered.
Matt
Yea those little bastards are mean. We had a pair spawn in the display reef tank at HOT, right on that huge clam, I was cleaning the tank and the male bit me right on the forearm, little **** had some teeth on him too!
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my friend leah is downsizing 2 tanks and so far let me know shes getting rid of 2 zebra cichlids buttcoferi..about 2 inchs.....i can get pics not sure what else yet....
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