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thanks! tommorow i'm going to get some r/o water from the fish store and do a water change and add some snails (using the said acclimation method). so to make it drip i start siphoning and then tie a knot? how do i go about doing that? also, do you think 5-10 turbo snails would be to many for a...

thanks for the articles! i've been looking at getting a nano skimmer (nano fission skimmer) and i bought one online tonight. i have a 12g aquapod and its supposed to fit in there. i'll also just start doing waterchanges with R/O water instead so hopefully that'll clear things up as well. thanks...

no copper in the tank to my knowledge; havent used any medications or anything. i've been just using tap water, and using kordon amquel plus to condition the water and insant ocean salt. thanks!

ok so i need to buy new ones and just acclimate them properly. it seems so time consuming but i guess thats just part of having an aquarium. so theres no other way to acclimate them that is quicker? also, the hair algae in my tank has grown to more than an inch in some spots. dont know if thats...

no hitchhiker crabs. i got the snails 3 weeks ago and they died last week, i got the small snails and 3 of the hermits then as well. then i got more last week (hermit crabs) and those are dying. i just floated the bag in the aquarium water. the guy at the fish store told me that crabs and such...

my hermit crabs, little snails, and larger snails(dont know what their called, their shell looks like a typical garden snail except they have a little mouth that looks kind of like a butt and their body is orange w/ a black stripe) have just been dying gradually over the past couple weeks for...

its 4 weeks old. i'll definitly go get some more crabs and snails and such. i hadnt acclimated my exsisting members that way and they were fine but i'll start doing that from now on (previously i just floated the bag for 20 minutes then emptied the water from the bag and put the fish/invert into...

what would you recommend to eat the algae quicker than what i have got in my tank currently? i have about 10 little snail guys, 3 hermit crabs, 2 snails that are orange w/ a black stripe.

i have a 12g aquapod and in the instructions it recommends this as the lighting cycle: LED 24 hours a day - dual actinic turn on 7am - dual daylight turn on 8 am - dual daylight turn off at 7 pm - dual actinic turn off at 8 pm. does this sound about right? also, is the only way to achieve this...

i have that all over my rock too. my hermit crabs and snails and stuff like to eat it which is good. im getting a starfish soon though so i'm hoping that he'll eat up the algae on the lr.

ah, thank you. so far its been a week of cycling and my levels are currently at ammonia: 0 ph:8.0 nitrite:0 Nitrate: 10. should i still wait another couple weeks to add more fish? i only have one damsel right now. also, when should i get snails and crabs and shrimp and such? thanks so much.

what are diatoms?

red coraline? i just set up my tank last week and have been cycling it since friday. 3 out of the 6 rocks i have in my tank all have coraline algae on them (purple, greenm, and some redish). well i noticed starting a couple days ago that its faintly starting to grow on the other rocks which had...

i have the same set up and would like to know as well

i have an eclipse 1 filter hood set up that was previously a tropical freshwater setup but im changing it over to saltwater; is this alright to do? i'm assuming (since it has one light) that it'll just be a fish only w/ live rock. i have a coralife 50/50 bulb in there w/ a rio powerhead size...