Hello.. i'm hitting the 6month mark of my Salt water career LOL I have a 34 gallon solana aquarium. With Corals, inverts and fish. I'm still loving it but it's definitely a challenge.
Here is what I have to say / ask,
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Here is what I have to say / ask,
- the small sponge that is holding my trickle filters balls down - should I be pulling that out and cleaning it with my old SW during PWC? It's getting kinda ugly and it's about the only thing I don't clean / rinse.
- My emerald crab has just striked again... first it killed my feather duster... and I saw it do it - def wasn't just coming in after the fact.... so now it killed my saddle back clown fish - I know it's hard to believe but I saw this one too... The saddle back was in the very back of the tank and the emerald was up on the rock and snipped at the fish! The fish stumbled around and then the emerald came in for the kill... picking at it alive! I have 2 emeralds and I do like them but they do seem to be trouble makers! Anyone ever see this before with emeralds?
- I have pretty much 95% kicked my Cyano outbreak WITHOUT ANY treatment other than PWC's and water flow. This actually took a month.. I still have a little here and there but nothing to complain about.
- I have been using Intant ocean already mixed from my LFS but today I just ordered some Red Sea from Foster and Smith... so will start making my own salt. I really think the IO has brought on Algea problems.. I know most say it isn't so - but this is my opinion. I was thinking about going with red sea coral - but just decided on red sea ... anyone have any comments on red sea vs red sea coral?
- I will be ordering a 7stage RO/DI from ebay from the guy ROKA suggested. With shipping was about $140 and came with tank and bunch of extras.
- I want to take a 5lb piece of LR out of my tank.... Should I expect any problems from this?
- I did replace my BIO balls with LR rubble and everything seems good with it. It's been about a month
- I am doing without the Carbon packages.. haven't seen a difference. It's been about a month.
- I am performing PWC's at least once a week (20%)... although during the Cyano outbreak I was doing twice a week @ 15-20%
Aquarium Advice is an awesome site... the moderators / mentors are all awesome. Thanks a million for your help!