Diatom and what to do with it

by **blueshoes2208** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:03 am

k so when i buy my actual light and stuff waht is the difference between 15k and 20k lighting? the spectrum?

by **Snowboss4492** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:29 pm

about 75 bucks.....................lol

seriously though . . . the brown death is normal............and as everyone has stated a good thing ...........

i had it for about 4 weeks when my tank started to mature...........everyday i took a turkey baster with a piece of tubing on it and blew everything off and let the filter catch it, cleaned the filter weekly and cut my lights way back , like 2 hours of actinic in the morning and 2 hours of actinic at night with 1 hour of 10K in the am and 1 hour at night - - -then i started increasing the light slowly as the tank cleared up.............even now i only run the 10 k about 5 hours split morning and night with the actinics on an hour before and an hour after the 10k's

if your planing on moving i agree with a few damsels or chromis .......cheap fish and not a huge lose if that happens during the move and it gives you some time to play with the tank and learn water husbandry

Boss

by **blueshoes2208** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:14 am

so is that better than jus getting a few inverts to try to keep algae in control?

by **Snowboss4492** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:27 am

along with a clean up crew - - -just remember only certain inverts eat certain algaes

Nasarious snails are good for cleaning the sand

by **fihsboy** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:03 pm

I would get maybe 10-30 nasarious snails.....then maybe 5 turbos.....then some hermits. Thing is.....you dont have a high bio load.......so I would keep it small for now and make it bigger as your load gets bigger. If you buy a new fish......buy 5 new snails to go with it and a few hermits.

by **blueshoes2208** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:40 pm

idk if i have enough shit in my tank to keep all those lil guys busy?? its only been going for like a month and a half

by **Snowboss4492** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:01 pm

blue i have 5 algae hermits and 15-20 nasarious snails in a 20 long and they've been in there for 4-5 months and seem to be happy .....so those numbers aren't outrageous ...............if you get nervous drop a silver side or somethinglike that in there once a week or so...................just don't over feed so they wait for the good stuff instead of cleaning the tank...........then they become pets not employees.......lol

Boss

by **fihsboy** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:16 pm

yeah......I did that. Boss is right! I got nervous.......so I fed them a little algae chip once a week. They waited for the algae chip and said screw the algae in the tank...Nas snails will keep your tank clean....hermits will keep your rocks nice. and turbos..........well they are some bad a@# mo fo's They are big and they clean big. Only problem is if something isnt secured.........they are strong and will knock it over. BUT two of these guys cleaned a whole 30x17 piece of glass in a single day. I mean spotless... of hair algae.

by **blueshoes2208** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:37 am

sweet...

Diatom and what to do with it

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Diatom and what to do with it

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