midgetwaiter

The canister isn't going to do you much good if you are looking to do corals. You won't get much flow out of it in SW and it will end up being something you need to clean constantly in order to avoid excess nitrate problems from all the junk it traps. You'll never find somebody with a sump that says "I should have done a canister instead". In addition to the ability to move more water around you have more space to add equipment and various filter media. There is additional cost to getting a sump and having an overflow of some kind installed of course but one place that this is offset is the cost and efficiency of your skimmer. You will get much more out of a comparatively priced in sump skimmer that you will a hang on. A lit refugium chamber that can grow macro algae is also a HUGE help in most systems. Without a sump I still wouldn't use the canister your rock and sand will do most of your bio filtration, you'll just need to add water flow and a skimmer. A pair of Sieo 1100s would work and or Hydor Korallias are nice too. This system can't handle a big fish load well so no triggers or such but many people have been successful with it. You'll never find consensus between different web sites or reef keepers and different thing work for different people so YMMV. Some time ago I had a dual canister system and sump system side by side and I probably spent twice as much time messing with the casiters alone than I did with the other system all together.

Give it some time, probably the best indication is if it keeps eating or not. I injured my male a while ago by dropping a glass top and had to watch him waste away, sucked big time.

The fact that you have a small ammonia reading jumps right out. Did you clean your filter pads when you did your water change? If so, how?

There is a bunch of things to consider here. Most importantly the 1000 gph pump is probably going to supply more water flow at 4' or so of head than the 2 500s would. I mucked around with the same call recently and decided to stay with one larger pump, I didn't see any gain in switching the two smaller ones. The amount of flow generated by the returns is tiny compared to what I get from the SEIO in there which I rely on for most of the work. It's tough to get the returns pointed in a way that you get any decent momentum to the flow. I'd suggest planning on an absolute max of 10x turnover with the sump and plan to get most of your flow from a wide output power head in the display.

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Does it or did it struggle like it doesn't want to be at the surface? If not it might just be acting funny. If it seems like it can't control it's depth I have no idea what to suggest, the lack swim bladder rules out anything I've had experience with. You'd need to find somebody that has significant experience with sharks and rays, they're unique in this aspect.

This is a myth, regular old table salt is just fine.

It changed colour because it's a male and the other one is a female. You never, ever try and keep pairs of livebearer species, the females will always get harassed to death. You need a minimum 1:2 ratio.

Keep in mind that when one says they have 1" PVC they mean 1" ID which is interior diameter. Easiest route: take one of your fittings to home depot and stick stuff in in until you find the right one.

I'm looking for a list of fish that are brackish, but that can tolerate FULL salt. Thanks. Take the list of fish from the FAQ and knock off the ones that say low brackish.... Aside from kribs, chromides, ropefish, some awaous gobies, rainbows and glassfish you should be just fine. You're welcome.

Nothing anybody has mentioned is really a freshwater fish. Most of the livebearers and gobies come from estuary areas that end up mixing with ocean water to various degrees. The monos, scats, archers and some puffers breed in FW rivers like salmon and move out into the ocean as adults. What you are looking for is a list of brackish water fish, try looking for the Brackish FAQ by Neale Monks.

Talk to a company that does warehouse shelving. The goos stuff can handle the weight and by the time you get around to getting everything you need to build it you're pretty close on the price. I did a 2 shelf 48X18 for around $100.

While I agree that this would be the ideal solution one has to consider that the political climate in Myanmar is what created the situation. In a different country that would have happened first and more importantly there would be an answer to the "do these fish really only exist in this swamp" question. So much of Myanmar is off limits that the world at large has no idea what interesting fauna might be hiding out there.

I'd guess about 2 weeks on average, newly hatched cat sharks are usually difficult to get eating.

After a while we ended up getting a second rabbit for him to hang out with as we weren't able to play with him enough. She said I could name it so I chose Hasenfeffer, then her dad told her what that means. I got in trouble.