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  1. Marinebeginner

    can you put sand on top of gravel???

    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 !
  2. Marinebeginner

    can you put sand on top of gravel???

    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.
  3. Marinebeginner

    Stock for 9 gallon?

    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 .
  4. Marinebeginner

    Identify this thing pls?!

    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.
  5. Marinebeginner

    First nano saltwater tank

    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...
  6. Marinebeginner

    Missing fish!

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

    Missing fish!

    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...?
  8. Marinebeginner

    Missing fish!

    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...
  9. Marinebeginner

    Missing fish!

    Will repeat nitrates tomorrow +/- repeat water change.
  10. Marinebeginner

    Missing fish!

    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...
  11. Marinebeginner

    Missing fish!

    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...
  12. Marinebeginner

    Missing fish!

    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...
  13. Marinebeginner

    Identify this thing pls?!

    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?
  14. Marinebeginner

    Introducing anenome

    Rich- how is your anemone doing ?
  15. Marinebeginner

    ID please.

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

    Identify this thing pls?!

    Oh bugger!! Have just been reading up on these things and you are completely correct . How annoying ! I don't want to completely remove the piece of live rock it's on as it is also supporting two lovely new leather corals. Will try the lemon juice method. Should I do a partial water change...
  17. Marinebeginner

    Start of barnicals or something worse?

    I have them as well, started when tank was about 6 months old.
  18. Marinebeginner

    Identify this thing pls?!

    Can anyone please identify this (?coral) with brown tentacles which I have adopted as a bonus addition to tank along with new leather coral? Thanks!
  19. Marinebeginner

    coral showcase thread

    I'm just a relative beginner so my corals are not very impressive ! Zooanths Mushroom coral Leather fingers All just from iPhone- sorry!
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  21. Marinebeginner

    Introducing anenome

    I bought the tank from them so told then what I had and presumed they'd know if that was ok. :-( I buy my water pre- made (seems to be the standard way here in Glasgow) and it is deionised , reverse osmosis without salt and I also buy some salted to salinity 1.025ppm. (I still check salinity...
  22. Marinebeginner

    Introducing anenome

    Bummer. Why do fish shops sell these things and tell you it'll be ok ? :-( thought I had done enough research. Currently researching if lights on hood can be upgraded but suspect it'll cause too much heat.
  23. Marinebeginner

    Introducing anenome

    He is no longer upside down, has crept into a rock crevice and is half poking out / half hiding. Yes I use RO water, parameters in tank stable for about 6 months now (it's just over 8 months old). As for lighting- my tank has a hood, the lights are 2x 18w T5 10,000k lighting.... If that means...
  24. Marinebeginner

    Introducing anenome

    Introduced first BTA today. Though I had read enough and that it would all be simple.... (Naive!) Lights are off and power head off for now in attempt to allow it to settle. Problem is that it keeps falling off rocks and landing on its side or upside down... Should I keep picking it up or will...
  25. Marinebeginner

    Introducing anenome

    Introduced first BTA today. Though I had read enough and that it would all be simple.... (Naive!) Lights are off and power head off for now in attempt to allow it to settle. Problem is that it keeps falling off rocks and landing on its side or upside down... Should I keep picking it up or will...
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