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Old 01-06-2015, 12:34 AM
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Been battling a good level of phosphate. my ultra low range was reading at about 0.1 ppm a few weeks back, so I decided to do a water change and start my phosban reactor with rowa. To my surprise, the reading went down for about a day and shot right back up. I was scratching my head thinking WTF. The following week and a half, I did 2 more water changes and triple the amount of rowa media, finally got a handle on it. last test was 0.022 and I'll do more testing to make sure I stay on top of it.



You know you are in trouble when your meter reaches the max number... I am just kidding, that's not the highest it goes up to but still bad.
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Thought I give it a try but.....the very next day...fak

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Old 01-06-2015, 12:49 AM
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Sorry to hear. IMO, these are a 9 in 10 die kind of fish. I would never buy one unless it came from an established tank. Even then, super sensitive. Mine lasted 3 months downgrading to a 115g tank.
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Got some frags from a few good friends. Thanks very much guys.

Fish list so far,

-Pair of breeding black ice clowns
-Pain in the butt damsel
-Royal gamma
-3 fire fish

Clean up crew

-5 trochus snails (Thanks Jess)
-2 cleaner shrimp
-2 fire shrimp


I will get another Achilles. That is the one fish I want in the tank.



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