The Escaped Ape
In The Canopy
Eric,
I was reading your article in Reefkeeping Magazine which suggested waiting 3 months before adding herbivores to the tank. Does the defintion of herbivores also include hermits/snails? I have some pretty good live rock which came together with plenty of corraline and some hitchhiker corals (some green and orange zoanthids, some mushrooms and a couple of bits of finger leather coral included seperately as a bonus in the shipment) and would be a bit worried that the algae would smother them without some janitors in there (the tank already has 6 hermits who have been tranferred from the old tank, though I assume they won't make much of a dent in the new tank's algae growth on their own).
I was intending to wait maybe a month and a half before adding anything else to allow the tank to establish itself. What do you recommend?
Tom
I was reading your article in Reefkeeping Magazine which suggested waiting 3 months before adding herbivores to the tank. Does the defintion of herbivores also include hermits/snails? I have some pretty good live rock which came together with plenty of corraline and some hitchhiker corals (some green and orange zoanthids, some mushrooms and a couple of bits of finger leather coral included seperately as a bonus in the shipment) and would be a bit worried that the algae would smother them without some janitors in there (the tank already has 6 hermits who have been tranferred from the old tank, though I assume they won't make much of a dent in the new tank's algae growth on their own).
I was intending to wait maybe a month and a half before adding anything else to allow the tank to establish itself. What do you recommend?
Tom
