naughty's bc 14!!
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kingfisher62
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How is the chaeto growing?
oh. oops! well then. i have two pistol shrimp! :rollface:
i'm frustrated though, even a day after a water change my nitrates are right back to 40
It sounds like something is going on with your water source, not the tank. Your system should have leveled out so long ago its not even funny. Have you switched to making your own water and mixing salt at home or still getting your pre-mix from an LFS? Id get a gallon of water from your source and run tests on it right out of the container to figure this mystery out.
reeferdale
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heater
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Just make sure the heater is not too long If you want to submerge it. I had a bunch of heaters from my 180 but I had to buy one for my 29 nano cause it had to be 12" or less to fit in the back
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Just make sure the heater is not too long If you want to submerge it. I had a bunch of heaters from my 180 but I had to buy one for my 29 nano cause it had to be 12" or less to fit in the back
naughty
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no worries, i have a 50 W eheim jager, it fits just to the minimum water level line with the false floor still in (since i couldn't get it out without hurting myself haha)
naughty
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hmm i can't really tell.. it started out as a ball of chaeto... it's still a ball of chaeto...
kingfisher62
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Well............. is it a bigger ball of chaeto?
kingfisher62
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If the chaeto does start to take off ,you can take a wad of it and place it inside your display tank around the nozzle that pumps water back to the tank . If the chaeto is grow it will definately help the ntrate reduction.
stonepilot
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naughty have you tried the glass coke bottle yet, put some food in the bottom submerge and lean against rock, neck faceing up so when the animal enters it falls to bottom and cant crawl back out.
If that rock came from Tampa Bay there is great chance that those arent pistol shrimp, but rather mantis shrimp. most likely Neogonodactylus wennerae
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1710644
great way to catch them!
i personally like the inverted coke bottle trick. give it a few days without food, they they allmost jump in the bottle. N. wennerae are not very shy, great pets.....if ya want them that is
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1710644
great way to catch them!
i personally like the inverted coke bottle trick. give it a few days without food, they they allmost jump in the bottle. N. wennerae are not very shy, great pets.....if ya want them that is
naughty
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If that rock came from Tampa Bay there is great chance that those arent pistol shrimp, but rather mantis shrimp. most likely Neogonodactylus wennerae
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1710644
great way to catch them!
i personally like the inverted coke bottle trick. give it a few days without food, they they allmost jump in the bottle. N. wennerae are not very shy, great pets.....if ya want them that is
hmm well the claw i saw sticking out of one of the holes was definitely bigger than the other and the pics of pistol shrimp i saw looked exactly like that, it's this blue greenish, so... i'm not too worried
plus i don't see them terrorizing anything quite yet, i feel like my tiny goby would be food by now if they were mantis...and no, i haven't tried the trap yet, mainly because i'm almost 90% sure that the first thing to get caught in it would be my super active serpent star... it tries to eat eeeeeverything and steal the anemones' food while it's at it... this would probably be followed by the peppermint shrimp annnd i really haven't even seen the gorilla crabs come out at feeding times!
buuuut i have managed to pick a couple gorilla crabs outta there, me and one of my girlfriends sat there for like 2 hours crab fishing the other day
in other news, got this awesome auto power scrubber tool from f&s... love it, it's a tid bit too big but i can fit it around most of the rocks
. no more ugly algae on the back
naughty
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well, the saltwater nitrates do seem to be around 5 ppm... but mine in the tank rise much higher
i think the chaeto has definitely grown, i took your advice and stuck some in the display area, we'll see if it helps!
i'm thinking of getting the biocube skimmer next if none of this works... silly nitrates.
kingfisher62
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Yeah I figure if the cheato is growing well in the back chamber at night than the clump in your display will help export it during daytime hours.
If I remember correctly , didn't you use crushed coral for your substrate. Crushed coral has been known to become nitrate factories but that is usually after it has been in the tank for a while.
If I remember correctly , didn't you use crushed coral for your substrate. Crushed coral has been known to become nitrate factories but that is usually after it has been in the tank for a while.
kingfisher62
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The skimmer might help but I would wait and see. I had a crowded 14g biocube for over 5 years and was able to keep my trates at zero with out a skimmer.
john miller
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What is your water change schedule?, how often and how much?
naughty
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i have all kinds of stuff, frozen rots, frozen mix of all kinds of worms n stuph from lfs, raw shrimp, annnd this phytoplankton liquid. i usually drop a couple drops of that on my sponges and give the anemones/serpent star/shrimp little pieces of something frozen. everything else eats whatever's left. annnd i do this probably about 2 times a week, maybe 3.
it's been about 2-3 times a week, i do about 2.5 gal changes.
nope it's the live sand that came in the package from tbs
it has lots of bigger pieces of stuff in it, but it's still mostly sand.
