Diatom and what to do with it

by **blueshoes2208** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:54 am

ANOTHER TOPIC: i am thinking about getting an apartment...... would it be better to just let my tank mature and stuff so that when i move out i dont have to worry about corals or fish??? or is that even possible? thoughts? ideas?

by **fihsboy** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:13 am

Well if your moving out soon.........sure why the hell not. haha. I would wait for the corals and fish if you are moving soon. You could always throw a Xenia in there.......that wouldnt hurt anything. and it would be something to look at. Maybe some damsels. But I wouldnt go all out...........because then its that much more you have to move.

by **fihsboy** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:16 am

Algae problems to your tank are like pubes to a teenager..........its starting to mature.....but its not there yet. Now is where the drama comes in and algae makes a mess of everything. BUT buy you some copepods.......throw them in there.....and they eat brown/red/green algae. So it wont go away.........but the pods will culture in your tank..........which is a GREAT thing.

by **blueshoes2208** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:36 am

oh really you can buy those in the little bottle right on fostersmith.com?

by **a1k8t31524** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:54 am

yeah your light is prolly runnin about 5500k so that is mostlikley your problem

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.

Diatom and what to do with it

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Diatom and what to do with it

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