I'm tearing it down !
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jasonrp104
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Ronnie, I used to be extremely picky about my sand being perfectly white. After a 3 day lights out I took off the blanket and saw that all of my algea was gone except for what was on the sand. Then I noticed how many little critters were living in the sand. I showed the Mrs, who immediately banned me from ever siphoning my sandbed again. It was the best advise I had ever gotten. I have pods, dusters, worms, all sorts of crap that I always wondered why I didn't have showing up everywhere. Now, I like the look of it. It seems more realistic to me
Feed your fish, stick to your weekly or bi-weekly water changes and enjoy your tank for awhile.
btw:I saw your Seaclone thread. I'd reccomend not messing with that skimmer unless you really want to go crazy. They are an absolute pain to dial in. I tried one for a bit and decided I'd rather just use the powerhead from it for flow and do more water changes than keep messing with it.
Feed your fish, stick to your weekly or bi-weekly water changes and enjoy your tank for awhile.
btw:I saw your Seaclone thread. I'd reccomend not messing with that skimmer unless you really want to go crazy. They are an absolute pain to dial in. I tried one for a bit and decided I'd rather just use the powerhead from it for flow and do more water changes than keep messing with it.
For the posters pointing fingers at me I see you Are fairly new here and what do you know about how and what I have done with my tank. I know you haven't read all my posts here ! And it's people like me that bring you what you need for this hobby. So before you start pointing and commenting on me Do a little reaserche on what and where I've been in this hobby!! Untill then i will try to ignore your shallow comments !! Good Day!
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jbird69
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While reef central is a great resource, its not the be all, end all of reef keeping knowledge. Theres a lot of oppinion, anectdotal rabbit trails and fireside philosophy to weed thru. (No Offenses RC, I love this place) You really need to dig in a little deeper to succeed totally. Buy some books and google. There are endless hours of reading good hard facts about keeping a reef aquarium.
A smart thing to do is FIRST look up some hard facts about the problems you are dealing with..in books or the internet, then come here to reef central and bounce what youve learned off the knowledge here. Information is the road to success...and its right at your finger tips.
A smart thing to do is FIRST look up some hard facts about the problems you are dealing with..in books or the internet, then come here to reef central and bounce what youve learned off the knowledge here. Information is the road to success...and its right at your finger tips.
eric@tampa
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Hey ronny keep up with your water changes,ect. and good luck....And whats up with the people from Canada? I thought we were trying to help here not BASH so lighten up.
Hang in there. I got a sea hare that my LFS saw eating hair algae and other algae ravenously. I brought it home and it mowed through everything. I did partial water change, rinsed filter media, replaced phos. remover and de-nitrate product, monitered water closely, only ran lights two hours a day for about a week. I also passed the sea hare on because there wasn't enough algae left after a couple weeks to sustain it's voracious appetite
mustang51js
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ronny your tank looks fine, just get more snails and acclimate them right and they should take care of that little algae, i have about 40 snails in my 90 and they keep it clean, but i still have algae, its just a part of having a reef
The canada thing was in regard to the post from Stricknine ! By the way was reading the other nite in my sleeper cab waiting over a day to get a load out of Michigan. Economy shure afecting Trucking and all transportation modes. Back on subject My salinity is 1.025 and LFS in Michigan said it shoulden't be higher than 1.024 . I read in reef keeping book it can be 1.024 or higher that would be 1.025. So whoes right. LFS whereI get my snails and crabs is 1.023-1.024 . Could this be the problem with my snails and crabs dying ?
mustang51js
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i would think that if you just threw them in it would be a problem, maybe they just fell upside down and died because you weren't around to right them, it could be something as simple as that, i had 2 upside down the other day in about 5 minutes but it doesn't happen all the time, then if one dies it could possibly kill some of the others
stricknine
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Public enemy #1 here.
There is no quick fix here. And ACEMOW: Good to hear you got rid of the sea hare. Would have died in your tank, glad it was a rental. Bandaids are not the fix. Time and care will make it all better!
Ronny, my new reefer friend, as it sounds like you are away a lot, I would say your hermits are the problem. If all params are ok, crabs are opprunistic killers. They will eat other hermits, kill snails for shells, and fight for food. I hate to say it, but let the hermits kill eachother off, and go snails to clean algae, nassarius to eat the waste (bristleworms are great too), and maybe even a bristle star if over feeding is common.
Aside from that, water changes w/RODI only, rinse the food in RODI, and have the equipment up to par.
Happy Trails! (smileyfacething)
***were not that bad up here in our igloos! (anothersmileyface)
There is no quick fix here. And ACEMOW: Good to hear you got rid of the sea hare. Would have died in your tank, glad it was a rental. Bandaids are not the fix. Time and care will make it all better!
Ronny, my new reefer friend, as it sounds like you are away a lot, I would say your hermits are the problem. If all params are ok, crabs are opprunistic killers. They will eat other hermits, kill snails for shells, and fight for food. I hate to say it, but let the hermits kill eachother off, and go snails to clean algae, nassarius to eat the waste (bristleworms are great too), and maybe even a bristle star if over feeding is common.
Aside from that, water changes w/RODI only, rinse the food in RODI, and have the equipment up to par.
Happy Trails! (smileyfacething)
***were not that bad up here in our igloos! (anothersmileyface)
Stricknine : My truck won't go that far north!! Up through Toronto every sunday is bad enought My Hermit real small actualy 10 for $10.00 is a rip off for the size. And yes I realy think my wife doesn't turn them over. Well i'm going to test and try a different turbo grazer. Also this tank is only 25 gal. I've actually tried most that has been sugested except boiling my rock and thats out of the ? Hey was reading your hobby exp i saw a sea horse in grand haven Mich last week in LFS .
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stricknine
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Ditch the hermits, get snails that right themselves, teach the boss water changes, and your good. next time you are available, take out the rock and give it a scrub. Suck out the 5gal or so of water change water in a bucket, grab the troubled rock, and scrub that rock with a toothbrush.
I left a 24 biocube alone for 10 weeks after I upsized to my 72, as it was established and I didnt want to trash it, but had no idea what to do with it. Me and the boss spent the time to make it right, cleaned it up, and now its a seahorse tank. Huge PITA, but the work pays off. Pics:
Long story short, you get out of it what you put in to it.
Good Luck!
...and the EH TEAM are the good guys! (smiley thing)
I left a 24 biocube alone for 10 weeks after I upsized to my 72, as it was established and I didnt want to trash it, but had no idea what to do with it. Me and the boss spent the time to make it right, cleaned it up, and now its a seahorse tank. Huge PITA, but the work pays off. Pics:
Long story short, you get out of it what you put in to it.
Good Luck!
...and the EH TEAM are the good guys! (smiley thing)
mustang51js
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i do the same as you but maybe for an hour or so
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