Recent content by leeveh99

Guys, Here's a shot of my tank a few hours after I cleaned it again. There was almost no cyano today so the small changes that I made have made a huge dif. I think the big water changes helped me out quite a bit. Thanks to all for the great advice!!

Maybe i had a snail or hermit crab die, causing a small ammonia spike???

I did forget to mention that when I had the tank cycling for the month and a half before i put the clowns, i was putting some flake food in there about once a week, just a moderate sized pinch until i saw ammonia/nitrate levels. Then I backed off until my readings were 0

Both the bulbs are only a month old. I have been trying to do a pwc at least once a week of about 5 gallons. Over the last couple of days I have done two pwcs, 10 gal each. So In total I have done about 20-25 gal water change over the last week. My tank is looking dramatically better with the...

I bought a coralife 3 stage ro/di unit and have been using that water for the last 3 months

I went to his place at about 5:00 Pm, only took me an hour to take his apart. Put the live rock in two tote bins with water from his tank and left them in my living room with a htr to maintain temp over night. When I got home after the initial breakdown I immediatly cleaned the tank and filled...

The tank was also ran for at leat a year before I got it. And all that live rock was in it. The owner just stopped looking after it other than the ocasional top up and clean up.

55 gal

Ok thanks guys. 8 hours for "treatment" or 8 hours all the time?

Guys, Figured I'd give you a bit of an update. I removed the crabs and about a week later I noticed that the yellow tang had ich :( I removed him and put him in my quarantine tank. Still noticed the emeralds picking at him so I gave the emeralds to a friend. Treated the tang for ich and after...

I realize that the ultimate goal is for 0 ammonia but you guys made it sound like .25 is going to kill my tank. Is it still possible to kill the whole tank with .25? I am just curious because I thought that .25 was not that much and that the natural process of the tank would take care of my...

Tank has been up and running since august. I let the tank do a full cycle because it was a tank that I had gotten from my friend and he did not take care of it. I added two pieces of live rock that I got from my LFS to help kick start the cycle. I did notice a bit of this cyano a couple of...

Hey guys, I did some looking around and could not figure out exactly what this stuff is that is growing on my live rock. It grows fairly rapidly and is almost like a skin that covers my live rock. as it build up it has a bunch of strands floating around. It seems like it is starting to...

My button polyp looked like pic #2 before it fully "bloomed", mine had a purple stalk and has turned brown with green center. hope this helps...

Here's a pic of the two hanging out together. I have since removed both crabs.