Recent content by Alexander1312

Currently in Germany again, I stepped up my video editing game (unfortunately not), and put together this 5-minute video from visiting the Aquarium Berlin (not Berlin Aquarium) for your enjoyment. I really liked this Aquarium, which also had an impressive reptile exhibition. Sadly, I did not...

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I know folks here like the Fritz Pro RM salt, so it seems to produce good results. If your alkalinity measurement is correct, and if you do not dose anything else, I believe you are using the high alkalinity version of the RPM salt (redline/red box). I do not think this variation of the salt...

Can you show a picture of the carbon brand you have been adding? Did you ever test alkalinity?

Do you have a full tank shot?

Yes, and was this not the issue with the long wait times to get the results back, since he always needed to wait to have enough samples to submit them to the lab?

Not sure if this is the first thing one should do but not the worst idea. Using granular activated carbon was a good idea. Nitrite is more or less irrelevant in saltwater, and I also get nitrite readings on ICP. Not sure if it is possible for a tank to go through a cycle again unless you...

Fully grown male. Not sure how effective the melanurus I have is against flatworms. Would be great to finally get a fish that can deal with my flatworms. Tank is 150 gallons.

Just to confirm: yellow coris wrasse ane yellow chrysus wrasse both refer to Halichoeres chrysus. Correct? I do not believe this fish will be able to get along with my Melanurus wrasse? Looks like this is the fish to get.

I thought 100% the same way and went with the AIO for that reason. Someone from Aquatic Collection at the time recommended to me to go one tank bigger with a small sump, and this was not an upsell, but a sincere advice, and 6 months later I regretted to not follow this. 1.5 years later I bought...

Not good for the hobby indeed, but I have heard others might pick this topic up. Also, it seems like the product was not priced correctly.

Thanks for sharing this (although the timing was a bit off as it did not really make me feel warm and fuzzy about my 3 weeks vacation haha). However, I could not find anything about the ‘why’ it happened. This was a massive event in a super short period of time, and a post mortem would have...

Welcome - no. 1 recommendation is to become a supporting member of this club. For a first tank, my recommendation is not to go with an AIO (a mistake I made in the past) but the Innovative Marin 50 EXT, which in my opinion is one of the best beginner tanks out there. Also, @Slingfox was...

I believe you said that you found it hard to keep up with the CA demand. By dosing AFR and the forbidden K (KW) together, I can see this being the issue. Regardless of my general concerns with KW, I would only go with AFR for a while as this should resolve the CA deficiency - I know lots of...

That’s one heck of a 500 USD tank @Invictus ! Very interesting advice against a mixed reef @PizzaOven . Never thought about it this way, but probably true. What are the other two dosing heads dosing, as I only counted two in use (all for reef and the forbidden K word)?