new pics....

[Lotus]

The sugar in the soda may have caused the cloudiness. Do a large water change and run some carbon, if you can.

You'll have to wait and see if it has caused problems with the rock. If you do see an ammonia spike, then you're probably OK.

Did you get the rock from a LFS, and was it sold as cured rock?

 

[forrestcook]

just shows i am not mature enough to be a parent yet. My reaction would have been pretty bad, I think.

 

[laurahammock]

The sugar in the soda may have caused the cloudiness. Do a large water change and run some carbon, if you can.

You'll have to wait and see if it has caused problems with the rock. If you do see an ammonia spike, then you're probably OK.

Did you get the rock from a LFS, and was it sold as cured rock?

I ordered the rock online....my lfs had like three tiny peices in their 55 gallon, so I thought I'd better leave it! I will do a huge water change....

water is clear again this morning....I'll do the water change anyway and run an hob with a carbon filter....how long should I run that?

 

[laurahammock]

Ok, so, I did the water change....about 99%....I hope everything wil be ok now. I'll check ph, nitrate. etc..a little later when the water has had time to circulate....thanks for all the advice guys.....By the way, how do you get your pics so big? Mine always say that I've exceeded the maximum size so I reduce them and they're tiny.......*twirlysmi

 

[laurahammock]

any feedback is welcome....I suppose it's just like starting all over....good thing I wasn't any further into the process.

 

[alter40]

Try to open an account with photobucket and you can just upload your photos into that and then copy the link it gives you below the photo with the IMG brackets around it.

 

[d3sc3n7]

Yup, he beat me to it. I upload full size photos from my camera to my Photobucket account, and it will give you 4-5 size options.

 

[laurahammock]

ok, I have photobucket, that's where I've been resizing them...so, which link do I copy from photobucket, there's like four of them under the picture....and where do I paste it?

 

[laurahammock]

Never mind!! I figured it out. Thanks guys!!

 

[alter40]

Ahh big picture... much better

Looks nice. I just hope that everything turns out to be ok after what happened with your tank.

 

[laurahammock]

took pic of my son off---try not to leave my kids pics online...

 

[alter40]

haha looks like a little demon in that picture... I hope he doesn't wear that outfit every day. If he does, beware, because he might be a demon.

 

[laurahammock]

Well, he can do and wear whatever he wants so long as he stays AWAY from my tank! LOL
I'm gonna check my params......

 

[alter40]

Well, he can do and wear whatever he wants so long as he stays AWAY from my tank! LOL
I'm gonna check my params......

LMAO make sure you let him know that!

Post your params... curious to see how they look after all of this.

 

[laurahammock]

K, here they are:

sg: between 1.021-1.022 (low, right? how do I raise it?"
ammonia:0.50
nitrite: 0.25
nitrate: 0
ph: 7.8

 

[alter40]

I'm pretty sure that the sg level is correct but I haven't kept a saltwater tank before. If I remember correctly it should be around 1.023 or so but I think your pretty close to that and it should be ok.

 

[Amaster131]

It is a little low but should be fine. If you really want to raise it you need to do a water change but replace the water you took out with saltwater.

 

[laurahammock]

Thanks....

 

[laurahammock]

ok, so I have two Maxi-jet ( one's 550, one's 660) powerheads and it seems like no matter where I position them, I'm getting sand movement--big time...like this morning when I got up, there was a bare spot on the bottom of the tank and the sand was pushed up all around the sides of some of the lr. Could this be too much flow for a 10 gallon? In a way, I hope that's the problem because I'm apparently hopeless at positioning!

 

[sweetpickles7]

Point them to the surface of the water and point them at eachother. Then wait a few days and the sand will have settled good, then u can move them. Thats what i did.