f-dean
Aquarium Advice Regular
I bought my tank from petco in dec 55 instant ocean. sold me 20 live sand and 6 damsells. Now my 4year old knows what a damsell die off is all about thanks petco. LFS oh tank is cyled add new fish some clowns, and some LR, which is cured, in store, clowns die, oh try a anemone and clowns, all in better place now. Pepermint shrimp added 1 hr later does nose dive, I think he was dead, might have been molting, anyway better place now , Nice algee layer, oh need some turbo's LFS 4 turbos and 2 hermits, And maybe some new LR which is cured in store. great red slime alge spread after attemp to scoup out to 4 corners of tank. Treatment red slime alge killer. works for about 4 days. the bam back. LFS oh you need goby to stir sand.
Any way I fillaly found a great store in Tulsa,Ok about 1.5 hours Ultimate reefs. They were honest. Sold me LR cured which i guess means that it is mostly killed all the worms ect.
Here is what they told me
1 I got the classic damsell die off cyle which could have been done with LR and I would have gotten something to keep instead of 6 little funerals.
2 I need lots more sand 2-3 inches and could have use reg. instead of expensive live sand.
3. I need calcium in water for LR and corals
4 I need power heads instead of air pump and air stones.
5 Recyle tank for 30 days
6 put snails goby, hemits ect. in new 5 gal gt for 30 days with new LR 15 lbs for 30 days
7 add 10-15 turbos to big tank with 10 or so hermits, and do water change using only ro no tap water. wait week buy few fish put in QT put goby and damsell back in large tank. Add 1-2 fish every 2 weeks,
8 recommended deep sixing emp 400 for sump or refugee. with protein skimmer,
9 recommends remora c, with siphon surface skimmer, mag float no more touching alge, 1.025 salt level will help, lights on timer a must calcium additions as needed.
10 No over feeding frozen krill elevates amonia, and cause algee to grow better.
water temp no higher than 78
Now this all sounds great but to a newby you could tell any thing
Basiclly I like the small tank I get to watch hemits play king of mount LR throw each other to the bottom.
This LR in my QT is only 15lbs or so has 100 or so small feathers on back few large ones, on front, along with 20-30 polyps, 3 anemonie although I have heard they are bad spreaders, grape algee, which I hear my emrald will eat. There was a small shrimp on when I picked it up, And I saw a bristle worm wow they are fast.
So will my tank get all this kind of stuff on the LR or will it take a year,
Here is my wifes trick for getting just the righ LR go to LFS but there display tank rock after 20q's and hours.
We got some really nice pieces with holes the size of fist in them. I was wondering if you get great stuff off the net or is it wow just a bunck of rock.
Any way I fillaly found a great store in Tulsa,Ok about 1.5 hours Ultimate reefs. They were honest. Sold me LR cured which i guess means that it is mostly killed all the worms ect.
Here is what they told me
1 I got the classic damsell die off cyle which could have been done with LR and I would have gotten something to keep instead of 6 little funerals.
2 I need lots more sand 2-3 inches and could have use reg. instead of expensive live sand.
3. I need calcium in water for LR and corals
4 I need power heads instead of air pump and air stones.
5 Recyle tank for 30 days
6 put snails goby, hemits ect. in new 5 gal gt for 30 days with new LR 15 lbs for 30 days
7 add 10-15 turbos to big tank with 10 or so hermits, and do water change using only ro no tap water. wait week buy few fish put in QT put goby and damsell back in large tank. Add 1-2 fish every 2 weeks,
8 recommended deep sixing emp 400 for sump or refugee. with protein skimmer,
9 recommends remora c, with siphon surface skimmer, mag float no more touching alge, 1.025 salt level will help, lights on timer a must calcium additions as needed.
10 No over feeding frozen krill elevates amonia, and cause algee to grow better.
water temp no higher than 78
Now this all sounds great but to a newby you could tell any thing
Basiclly I like the small tank I get to watch hemits play king of mount LR throw each other to the bottom.
This LR in my QT is only 15lbs or so has 100 or so small feathers on back few large ones, on front, along with 20-30 polyps, 3 anemonie although I have heard they are bad spreaders, grape algee, which I hear my emrald will eat. There was a small shrimp on when I picked it up, And I saw a bristle worm wow they are fast.
So will my tank get all this kind of stuff on the LR or will it take a year,
Here is my wifes trick for getting just the righ LR go to LFS but there display tank rock after 20q's and hours.
We got some really nice pieces with holes the size of fist in them. I was wondering if you get great stuff off the net or is it wow just a bunck of rock.