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In the last week or so I have seemed to have inherited an algae bloom or something. It is awful. I have dosed with chemiclean and done a 15% water change. The stuff is just growing like grass in there it is growing on the rock mostly and smothering out my coral. What can I do quickly to get rid...

It is in the Caulerpa family. I saw it googling. My pic will not load. Maybe it is not a bad thing. The leaves are round and it runs, but I don't think it is the grape caulerpa, the leaves are flat round. Food for inhabitants or danger?

I have a plant that has appeared that has little runners on it and little round dk green leaves, it sprouted from around my green star polyps and I am afraid it is going to choke them out. It is growing very fast and it feels like a rubber band, very flexible. Good or bad stuff?:confused: Sorry...

By Expellling do you mean more to come or they are dying off?? picture i hope attached?

I have three clear bubbles coming out of my zoos like they are blowing see thru bubbles and they are hard to the touch and donot collapse, what in the world?:confused:

I'm sorry what is an MTS problem? I will never try to keep coral in there with him, but I thought the shrimp could get away. He's always on top of him cleaning, maybe he got sick of that.

I came home to find my african red tip sf consuming my cleaner shrimp. The shrimp was perfectly fine this morning, healthy. Is that normal, can they be that cunning?? I am so mad at it right now. I feed him all the time, evidently not enough :mad:

What do you recommend to keep your ph and calcium good at the same time, or is there any hope? I get my calcium up where it should be and there goes the ph down to 7.5 or so. My corals are doing well they just aren't growing. They have been the same size for months. Any ideas? I use IO Reef...

Hope they are eating nitrates! I don't care how hard I try they will never be 0 again and my fish don't seem to care at all. I have a lot of coraline algae too on the walls should I scrape that off or just leave it alone, kinda unsightly.

Where in the world do they come from? They look like worms. I guess they eat whatever I put in there, cause they are growin!

What is this white wormy looking stuff, just noticed it in the last 2 or 3 weeks, weird.

You are right, I googled it and there it was. My first experience with diatoms. I used live Carribsea sand from LFS for jawfish tank and I guess that is what fueled the fire. Live sand and rusty rock. Lovely. I am waiting for a skimmer to be built, maybe that will help some and I'll blow it off...

My rock is beginning to look rusty, is that algae I guess? It is not live rock. I restarted the tank one month ago 20 gallon with flourescent hood just for jawfish only. What do I need to do about this brown stuff?

I am cycling a sw tank with raw shrimp and wonder if you use carbon or not.not using skimmer. Have shrimp tied in a mesh bag cor about a week now

I will find some fresh ones and do just that! Thanks!!

I guess a frozen one would work? :fish2:

How long are you supposed to cycle with the live sand? What do you recommend? I want to do this right!

Thanks for the advice! They are busy little guys and you are right about keeping one I'm sure. It has cleared up a lot over night because I started my new filter on it. How long should I wait to add Jaws? My sand bed is pretty deep probably 4 inches. Are there any other creatures it will...

I am in the process of starting over my 20 gallon tank to accomodate a couple of pearly jawfish or 3. I have put down some crushed coral, rocks then a bag of caribsea live sand and then some more crushed coral. It is still cloudy after several days. How long must this go on?? That sand really...

That sounds good to me!! I will keep running my fan in there (in my son's room) Not many 11 year olds mothers keep 2 sw tanks in their son's room :) He loves it but guess who takes care of it???

Tang, angel, blenny, hawkfish, sleeper goby, few soft corals, temp pretty much stays at 79 these days. I have run a fan in the room to cool it, it helps a little.

I have a 20 gal and a 36 gal tank and they both creep up to around 80. Almost have now. Is there a good inexpensive (yeah right) chillling option for me?

My ph now is 8.45 or higher, my tank is overstocked now, help.... Yello tang, coral beauty angel, beauty is right,2 algae blennies, red hawkfish and two clowns all nestled in a 36 gallon tank a zoo colony, a Xenia and a chili, 2 nems and a host of housekeepers. Nitrates are too high, calcium off...

My ph is about 8.45 or so, its always a little high. I'm doing a major WC tomorrow since I'm off (thank God) I best keep up with my WC now for sure cause I'm way overstocked due to a crash in my other tank. I've got to get that back up and running. I am starting over on that one. Just put a...

About 3 weeks. I think I would have seen them by now, my other pair stayed out all the time, day and nite. Just stayed at the back of the tank. I wish they would show up. My calcium may be too high. It's over 450 last I checked.