MBuck
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Ok, so i get home form work last night, and wanted to do a wtaer change on my cube...I have hair algae! Green and red, so I have been reading and have cut back on the food, and am doing 10-15% water changes every week, usually on Sunday, but I have to work today, so I decided to do it last night.
Anyways, I take out about 5 gallons after turning the lights on and blowing everything off with the turkey baster and waking everyone up. I have a small piece of rock with some shrooms on it, so I pull it out, place it in the bucket, and start pulling the hair off....not going so good...I go get a toothbrush and scrub the hair off, much better.
At two am, I have pulled the majority of my rock out of the tank, scrubbed the hair and basically reaquascaped my tank.
I start placing corals back into the tank, as they are completely pi$$ed at this point, as are the fish..
How do I know what corals can be touching or really close? I bought these as a package deal, and really don't know much about them, except that my shrooms have mulitpied, and my hairy mushroom has split. I guess I must be doing something right, but I have kept everyone away from each other, and when I look at pics on here, the tanks are practically consumed by corals.
I have hairy mushrooms, a kenya tree, a acropropa(sp), some flat mushrooms, are these ricordia? and a little rock with pretty yellow "flowers", not a feather duster type flower, but actually looks like a little tiny daisy. A very small frag of palovia(sp). Oh, I also have two stalks of Zenia.
Can these guys sit on top of each other, not literally, just touching? I have only really seen sweepers on the palovia.
I am in the process of buying a couple books on corals, just want my tank to be pretty like everyone elses!! And continue to keep thing's alive in there!
TIA!
Anyways, I take out about 5 gallons after turning the lights on and blowing everything off with the turkey baster and waking everyone up. I have a small piece of rock with some shrooms on it, so I pull it out, place it in the bucket, and start pulling the hair off....not going so good...I go get a toothbrush and scrub the hair off, much better.
At two am, I have pulled the majority of my rock out of the tank, scrubbed the hair and basically reaquascaped my tank.
I start placing corals back into the tank, as they are completely pi$$ed at this point, as are the fish..
How do I know what corals can be touching or really close? I bought these as a package deal, and really don't know much about them, except that my shrooms have mulitpied, and my hairy mushroom has split. I guess I must be doing something right, but I have kept everyone away from each other, and when I look at pics on here, the tanks are practically consumed by corals.
I have hairy mushrooms, a kenya tree, a acropropa(sp), some flat mushrooms, are these ricordia? and a little rock with pretty yellow "flowers", not a feather duster type flower, but actually looks like a little tiny daisy. A very small frag of palovia(sp). Oh, I also have two stalks of Zenia.
Can these guys sit on top of each other, not literally, just touching? I have only really seen sweepers on the palovia.
I am in the process of buying a couple books on corals, just want my tank to be pretty like everyone elses!! And continue to keep thing's alive in there!
TIA!
