Recent content by paulace2372

You are still overfeeding. I feed mine 3 times a week, many others including the experts on here do similar and our fish are fat and healthy. The high flow will not stop cyano, just lessen the appearance of it most of the time. over time, the removal of cyano through syphoning it from the tank...

Sorry just to clarify - siphon out the algae on the water change.

Siphon as much as possible out on a water change. Try a whole day without any light, or just adjust to a shorter lighting time and reduce your feeding. This will help reduce the nutrient levels in the water that cause cyano.

That will depend on what the source of the ammonia is. If it's live rock then it will depend on how much and a few other factors. I wouldn't worry too much at this stage about the level of spike. Keep an eye on the level dropping and the nitrogen cycle beginning to work.

Has anyone on here every used marine life UK to order anything? I was thinking Corals frags?

You tend to find that the price relates to who or where they are ordered in from. I have found that my local maidenheads (there are 4 quite locally) can be cheaper than many other places and smaller independent shops. They have some good offers on marine.

yeah I would say thats a stomatella.

I currently have three different ones in different tanks. Banded Mine Urchin; moves rock around in the tanks and causes a lot of works if in a reef, Knobby Sputnik; unusual looking & hardly ever see it & was a hitch hiker anyway and finally a long spine urchin. Lsu is the nicest but they grow...

I would also say it was a sponge, I could not identify it beyond that point though.

The light green shoots are neomeris. They aren't bad but do tend to get out of control if allowed and it's worth plucking them in mu opinion. Also u seem to have a bit of hair algae growing around them.

No its unlikely, damsels are very territorial and I would say its more than likely that he has just found somewhere in the tank he likes to call his own for the moment.

It looks like a really nice one too.

I agree with all Carey has advised you with too, also I would question why your LFS has sold you this amount of stock so closely together? I know aswel as anyone the temptations of "just one more" but it sounds as if they are giving you an impersonal and poor service in allowing you to make...

It will certainly help avoid this problem in the future.

Reverse osmosis water or distilled water, or some RO units have an additional distiller on them also but are pricey where I'm from.