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It is time to change my catridges on my RO unit. The cartridges are about 9 months old and my TDS meter just began reading a measurment of 4. From what I understand this is about as high as you want to let your total dissovled solids get. So my question is this do I need to change all three? My...

I do not have a top off system because I do not have the space. I will try to lower my daily alk dosage and see what happens. Thanksfor your thoughts - Jon

The leathers are fine at 8 but I can not maintain my alk. levels to stay at 8. Which I why I manually dose 3 tsp to keep it in a higher range so that it does not go below 8 which is when the leather start to get unhappy. What can I do to keep my levels at 8 all of the time. I have heard of using...

Blange I check my calcium and magnesium every other day. May calcium is always around 420 - 460 and my mag is usually around 1350 - 1450. I only keep my alk up because it can drop three points (ie: from 12 - 9) in a day. From what I understand and have read it is ok to keep your alk. at those...

No I do not use any flake food. but I keep my alk. between 9 - 12. Which means a daily does of 3 tsp of kent dkh daily. I think tht is what is causing it. Jon

You it the nail on the head Blange. I thought that it could be from my daily dosing of calcium and alkalinity but was not sure. No I do not have any sand sifting critters in my tank. This is the first tank taht I have not had any in either. I think that I might invest in some.

Anthony, I think you are on to something... This is why I am having all of these small annoying problems. I put cement in my tank instead of live sand. Let me get my chisel and solve all of my probelms :) :) :)

In October when I started this new tank I wentwith the large coarse sand (somesort of live carribean). I wanted a change from the very fine sand which was easy for the fish to displace. I was told when I bought it that there was no difference in either other than astetic reasons. Since than my...

NJStillwell thanks for the advice I will keep you posted. The acans are located at the bottom of my tank under 234 watts of Tek T5 lighting using giesemann bulbs about 6 months old.

I bought some beautiful acan frags about two weeks ago. When I first dropped them into my tank they opened up perfectly. But since yesterday they are now fairly unhappy. They do not inflate when the lights come on but when the lights go off they inflate to normal size. I did my normal 15 gallon...

Well,my problem has been solved. I moved him to the sand bed in a medium flow area and he is happier than a pig in .....

Right now I have a old maxi jet 1200 in the sump.

I have tried to run a mag 9 for the return pump and it was too much for the tank. I ended up changing my filter sock every other day, because it would overflow too quick and the bigger problem was the heat that it produced. My tank temperature would register around 81 degrees on a average day...

The baffles in my sump are restricting the flow of water, which also help keep my tank crystal clear and bubble free. To keep my temperature under control I already have two azoo fans on my sump which keep my temp around 79 - 81 depending on the day (please note that I do not use a heater) . My...

The water is my sump is beginning to get stagnant. I put a power head in it and it has raised the temp of my tank by two degrees. So here is my question... Can stagnant water hurt your tank? My idea is to manually stir the water in my sump once a day so that I do not get a build up. Will this be...

The flow in my tank is good. I have a 58 gallon tank with a mag 7 as a return pump and two hydor koralia power heads

Thanks for the advice everyone. He is now in the sand bed in a semi shaded area. Lets see what happens.

I recently bought a bleeding apple scolymia which had some recession. The recession appeared to be healing nicely and he was eating mysis shrimp / cyclopeeze whenever it was fed to him. I have tried to feed him the past two nights and he would not eat. His health does not look the greatest and I...

Thanks for the advice. I just put a maxi jet 1200 in my sump. Lets see what happens.

Like the title says... I have had a strange mucus like film collecting on the top of my water in my sump over the past couple of days. I first noticed it when I did my routine two week water change on Sunday. I cleaned it all out and today when I went to add some alkalinity I noticed it...