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1mg

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today i got my dr tims. when i opend the package i realized i had orderd the freshwater one and only. does any one know if this will still work for my reef, or what the diffence in the to is? thanks.
 
im not saying your wrong but how do u know this. the reason i ask is they just emailed me back saying it will just not as fast.
 
all hail jeni, keeper of the reef. lol im with you because i just emailed them back with what you said and they said exchange it if i can. so i dont know how much i trust dr tims company. thanks for the help.
 
Actually, I have been following Dr Tim since he 1st invented Bio-Spira. He's a great scientist. Not sure about his company though. Where did you buy it from?
 
i got it off ebay so im stuck i was hoping maybe a lfs might let me trade it in on the reef one and only. do you happen to know a lfs close to westmont or downers grove that carries it
 
1mg said:
i got it off ebay so im stuck i was hoping maybe a lfs might let me trade it in on the reef one and only. do you happen to know a lfs close to westmont or downers grove that carries it
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Try Scott's Pet Shop. I haven't been down Ogden in a while but he had just opened a couple years back. I believe it's in Westmont.
 
scott is still around though, remember that was no longer his store. the store on harlem is scotts store.
 
i have givin up on getting the dr tims after my mistake with the fresh water. i seeded with a little over a half lb of live rock and added ammonia. that was the 10th i added th lr and have been adding a little ammonia each day when someone on here suggested i bump up the ammonia to 5ppm. when i did yesterday, i now have nitrites showing so my tank has started to cycle in 10 days with 3 very small pieces of lr. thanks for the help everyone.
 
Once you see nitrite, cut the ammonia in 1/2. Dose that every day. When the ammonia/nitrite go to 0 by the end of the day & the nitrate shoot up, do an 80-90% WC & you're ready to go. Are you just using all dead/dry rock here? Because if you get LR from an established tank, you'd not have to cycle at all.
 
it is mostly diy dry rock i made about a year ago with oyster shell and portland cement. i only have a few very small pieces of live rock about .8lb. i had cycled about 6 months ago but i let my tank sit because my mh was making the water hot. i thought it was good but when i added my first clown and frag it killed my clown the ammonia went to .25ppm so i quarintiend the coral.
 
so now im back at a loss. i raised my ammonia to about 4 or 5ppm. the next day nitrites where at .25ppm, nitrates were at 5ppm, and ammonia was .5ppm. so i added just a little ammonia like you said puffer. i add the ammonia it goes up to 1 or 2ppm than at the end of the night or in the morning the ammonia keeps showing around .5ppm to .25ppm. the nitrites show 0 the nitrates show 0. i dont know if it has cycled because there was no big spike in anything. i read that 1ppm of ammonia equals about 3ppm of nitrite, but i didnt have a big spike. im not gana add any more ammonia and see if it goes to 0
 
Not a little ammonia, 1/2 of the amount needed to raise the level to 5ppm daily, until ammonia & nitrite reach 0 by the end of the day & you are showing nitrate.
 
by a little that is what i did it would raise ammonia to 2ppm than i check at night and .25 but no nitrite or nitrate.
 
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