Recent content by Pain Devine

I have no corals, but as you can tell by looking at its shell I have feather dusters up the yingyang. They're EVERYWHERE! They only thing I have more of that featherdusters is Cyano... which never goes away. Yuck.

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Got a pic of my snail releasing his sperm:

I used something called "Cemi-Clean" that killed it all in about 48 hours. It cost $13 for enough to treat 200 gallons. My tank is 16... lol Everyone gave me crap for using the anti-biotics but I'd like to point out, they all still have Cyano in their tanks... while I do not. All my fish are...

lol, sorry, the mass of flames clouded my vision... Peanut worm? Do I gotta buy peanuts now?

SO ANYWAY, what is the worm thing?

Ok, I got a picture of it... it's only about an inch or 2 long in this picture... it was in the process of retracting back into its hole because I had just turned the light on. It's the long worm looking thing in the middle of the pic... Let me know if you know what it is...

I'd be more worried about it tipping over... I've never been through an earthquake but my understanding is that there are 2 kinds... the up and down kind, and the back and forth kind. The up and down kind would test the quality of your stand (not to mention splash all kinds of saltwater on your...

So I just dumped a bunch of anti-biotics in my tank to kill off all the damned Cyano... so I'm checking the tank off and on to see if it's going away (and to see if everything else is still alive) The Cyano killed off all my pods and bristal worms... grrrr... But when I just turned my light on...

My snails were doing something funky earlier... are they sexual or asexual? I've already had 1 baby snail in my tank but my purple friedman ate it... grrrr... anyways, I was wondering if this "funkyness" they were up to might have been mating. Maybe I'll start my own "Hot Snail on Snail Action!"...

Lol, Cocain wont kill you... it's the guy you buy it from that kills you. ;-)

I like my snails!!! Anyways, the snails have more Coraline algea on their shells than most of my live rock has on itself... lol There aren't any herbavore hermits?

I haven't tested the waterin a while so I just did... Amonia, Nitrites and Nitrates are all at 0 or at least bellow the detection level of my kit. But the Cyano or Algea may be what's keeping it at 0... I dunno.

I'm no expert, but I'd say it's a math problem... If you do 50% water changes, the first change would cut the nitrates in half, the second would cut it to 25% the third would bring it down to 12% etc... But if your levels are rediculously high, maybe there's a root cause? You didn't mention...

Yes, I get the Shnazzy watter out of the RO machine at the grocery store. It's even UV sterilized. I just tore my tank apart... finally found the snail. It's hiding tucked under nook in one of my rocks. i think it may be breeding... I've already had 1 baby snail in my tank but my bastard...