Recent content by Brandyn85

We have a 125 gal tank and have 2-400 watt mh along with a blue LED system. Your theory makes sense because the tank that it was in when we bought it yesterday was maybe 20 gal and did not really have much lighting in it. I have been watching it a lot as I am really intrigued with it and I could...

Are you sure? It was looking very healthy and happy and then its started spewing these things out and now that it is done it is all shriveled up the size of a racket ball.

We just bought a Long Tentacle Anemone yesterday and just about an hour ago it starting releasing tiny green pellet like things from its mouth. It has been releasing hundreds of these things. I am a little worried as this is my first anemone and can't find anything online about them doing this...

Hi there I have a bunch of these white pineapple shaped things growing in my tank. I'm not sure what they are (i read they might be a type of sponge?) and my concern is they are multiplying rapidly. Not only are they all over the rock but my overflow has a bunch of them. Any help would be much...

I have a turbo snail that has this red spiral thing growing on it. I have attached a photo. I have noticed these red things growing on the power head and on one piece of rock I have. The ones on the snail and on the power head are spiral and the ones on my rock are both spiral and straight like...

thanks! i appreciate the help, ill stop at the hardware store and see if i can find some ammonia tomorrow after work.

ill give that a try, if i can catch them tomorrow, my brother in law has a breeder box i will stick em in his tank and see what happens

i took a water sample in today and the guy at my lfs said my brothers test kit basically didnt work at all, and my ammonia was 0, trites 0 and trates 1. he basically said with the ammonia and sand that he gave me my tank cycled already, does that sound weird? seems like it went really fast. he...

i checked out those kits, i already ordered the ocean master so i'll see how it works and maybe have to get somethin else later. im going to keep an eye on my ammonia for a couple days and see what happens. if it doesnt move i guess ill pull the fish and use some ammonia

its an API master kit

nope, still at 0.

cool thank you, it truly is for dummies, made perfect sense to me! my ammonia is still at 1 today, its been there for about 3 days since i did my first test. is it possible it could have spiked in the first 2 days and it now coming down really slow? or do you think it hasnt spiked yet?

yes, ammonia was 1.0, nitrite 0, ph 7.9 and the nitrate was bright yellow in the test tube. my brother in law couldnt find the card but he said it was good if it was yellow and not orange. i just ordered my test kit a few days ago so im borrowing his for now.

hey guys im starting to see what i think is a diatom bloom, im getting a brownish fuzz all over everything, should i do a water change soon? this is something ive searched a lot and some people say dont do it for a few weeks to a month in the first part of the cycle and some say do it every...

when i started my tank about a week ago, i bought my water and the guy at my lfs was more than happy to give me a baggy of live sand from a healthy established tank, and also some ammonia for free, to help jump start the cycle. he says he does that for everyone who is just starting out. i would...