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Hey I have some weird light green stuff growing on one of my rocks. Just wondering if it's something I should worry about. My turbo snail goes over it but doesn't seem to be eating it.

How long have you had them? Mine acted very weird the first week.

No I'm not using any kind of mechanical filtration. How do rocks leach nitrates? Or even phosphates for that matter? What is the solution to leaching?

I added the water and sand at the same time. Then the next day I bought the live rock. I added a HOB filter briefly to clear up the water. As the nitrates got high I would change water. About a month into it the parameters seemed to stabilize so I added the fish. I feed a very small amount...

I used live rock and live sand and waited a month before adding fish.

Nope. There was always a small stream of micro bubbles coming out of the left side of the unit. Supposedly they will go away eventually.

That's questionable. I didn't know exactly what to look for when setting the tank up. The parameters were good at the time of adding the fish though. For feeding I switch between frozen mysis, frozen brine and omega one marine flakes. I feel like maybe I'm not feeding them enough because they...

No media. I don't have all the test kits here at home but the parameters I could measure are: SG -- 1.022 Temp -- 79 (too high?) PH -- 8.2 Ammo -- 0 I also tested the nitrate level in a bucket of freshly mixed salt water and it shows 0.

I had the hydor slim skim nano for about a month. It seemed to be ok. It definitely took some gunk out but it was too water level dependent. I didn't have a sump so it wouldn't skim properly if I didn't keep the water level just perfect. Plus every time I emptied the cup the rubber adjuster...

Looks like you have the Coralife skimmer, right? How's it holding up for ya?

Looks beautiful ?

I just started my first salt water tank about 3 months ago. It is a 20g long. I currently have 25lbs live rock, 15lbs live sand, 2 medium ocellaris clowns, 1 large turbo snail (about 1.5" maybe a little larger) and 1 nassarius snail (big for a nassarius, about 1/2"). I've been doing 4-5g (30%...