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Dont have 200 to spend on fish that may not survive in my tank.
Thats not too bad. My lfs is about 40 minutes away. Not TOO bad. I was looking on liveaquaria ay fish. I want a clown that has relationship witj anemone tho. Ocellaris doesnt. .. right?
LR from a tank with High nitrates... oooooo.... I think you hit a nail on that one. I visited my LFS this weekend and bought a pound of live rock and 2 blue leg crabs to see if they would survive. This is day two and cute little crabbies (named Poopsie and Sam) are still moving around! They hide allot but I can sometimes catch a glimpse of one of them. But I tested the water from the LFS that I brought it all home in and the nitrates in that LFS water was a flipping 320ppm. Has to be. My kit only reads up to 160 but this tested darker than the color on the card. It was more blood red than what I've seen in MY tank! No more LR from that place. I bet a handful of my nitrates came from there. The nitrates from my initial water wasn't too bad, but had some in it. But I think it's all a mixture of nitrates from the dry rock from BRS, the horrible LR from LFS and perhaps some of it from the initial water used for setup.
My skimmer is pulling out some crud so that's good. If crabbies are still alive by this weekend I'll probably purchase a couple more. I did, however, take a risk at something and I added the Instant Ocean Natural Nitrate Reducer to my tank. I read some good reviews on it and figured I would give it a try and added some to the tank. I'll retest here in a couple of days. I'm gonna pick up some vinegar at the market next time I go.
When setting up the quarantine tank cant I just use the water from my display? Should I ad some live rock too?