Recent content by Marinebeginner

I am in the process of doing the change over. Pretty much all of my cc is out. Just putting small amount of sand in every day as it is producing a sand storm, even when I try and pour it down plastic tubing. Clears within a few hours though - will get there eventually !

Am about to start removing my crushed coral substrate and replace with live sand- how long did you leave your power heads off for? Am I at risk of causing a nitrate spike? (Have been gradually reducing depth of crushed coral in preparation so its only 1cm deep max.

Turbo snails are excellent for CUC, I also have a conch snail, two hermit crabs and two nassuris snails. A clown fish would stay small enough for a 9g tank .

The beast is dead- hooray! Have no probs getting syringes in my line of work. The neat lemon juice directed towards his mouth (without the boiling water) worked a treat.

Hi, I was concerned to see an anemone in your nano tank - is this not a new tank? It is v difficult to keep anemone in a nano tank besides that they should only be put in tanks which have been stable for months - years. Have you enough lighting? I had to get rid of my anemone. Couldn't get...

Back from the dead?!? I wonder if he got himself into the filter / reservoir section at back of tank and has now freed himself ...?

Tank is 8 months old. Have only couple mm of sand- previously deeper and had probs with nitrates in past hence reduced it. Have been doing 25% changes fortnightly but perhaps weekly is needed...?

I have live rock in the tank itself and then small fragments of live rock replacing the plastic filter beads / foam in the filter section at the back of the tank. I also have a protein skimmer. Regularly clean protein skimmer but haven't cleaner filter stuff out for good 2-3 months as wasn't...

Will repeat nitrates tomorrow +/- repeat water change.

I have done a water change. I replaced the filter material in my nano tank with little pieces of live rock. I guess I could take then out and clean them in RO water? I have 3 inches of fish in a 12 Gallon nano tank so just on the cusp of being ok I think. (Its a reef tank) I feed a cube of...

Crikey- just checking levels to investigate nitrates up at 100ppm , 3 days post PWC! Cause or effect?? Salinity spot on, ammonia still in progress but looking like its going to be zero. Have two other fish in tank. Fed, but looking a bit sluggish - depressed / in mourning ?! / effects of...

How quickly could a clean up crew remove the evidence of a dead fish? My clown fish has completely disappeared. I'm devastated! My tank is a nano tank so no where to hide, he always comes out when I open the lid for feeding time. He was there yesterday . Clean up crew- 2 crabs , two turbos, a...

Help with aptasia- I've tried the lemon juice in boiling water twice, both times the aptasia has shrivelled up and looked like it would die but then a few days later its back looking healthy as ever. What would happen if I just cut it off rock at its stalk?

Rich- how is your anemone doing ?

Aptasia- see my post in this same thread. I have exact same problem. Let the killing spree begin!