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FWIW, you're definitely not doing anything bad, just ahead of schedule
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Thanks for all the help, Travis. --- Wendy --- |
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I made a similar trip tuesday to an LFS out of town that was supposedly good and different than the local one, only to find out it was a dump. They had 1 saltwater tank with a couple "Nemo Clowns - $19.99" and a bunch of tanks with feeder guppies and goldfish. Oh, and 1 tank with their plants, all it was is a bunch of hornwort. Needless to say, I won't ever waste gas to drive up there again.
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Travis-
Thank you so much for spending all this time and continuous effort on a thread like this one. It is incredibly helpful to all the newbies like me who are interested in setting up a saltwater aquarium. Not wanting to start until I thoroughly research what I'm getting into, your thread has made a lot of the "complicated" issues more understandable. Hopefully I will starting up my own peice of the ocean this spring! Thanks again! |
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Man for a beginners how to guide, this sure is all over the place and really confusing.
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Actually Squid, having been there and done this, it is really hard to keep order, and stay on course, in an open thread. Since the board is interactive you really need to go with the flow of the comments and questions presented. I think Travis is doing fine under an open discussion environment. It is harder to stay on track here than say a Reefkeeping Magazine article on the subject. and BTW Hi Cali To Reef Central Waterkeeper omits that he has popped in on occasion and helped take the thread off course.
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Tank update. The algae bloom started two days ago and is simply taking over grrrrrrrrrrrr. I hate that. HOWEVER, I have discovered the lawn-mowing capabilities of both Astrea snails and my new favorite member of the clean-up crew, the Blue Leg Hermit Crab!
Today, we spotted a snail the size of a pin head motoring across the glass, which highlighted these little white doo-dads litteraly EVERYWHERE behind the rock pile. We now have a pod outbreak. WOOT! Almost there. Water parameters continue to show zero Amonia, Nitrites, Nitrates and PH is 8.2. I think we've settled on a purple fire fish, a VERY small six-line wrasse, and perhaps some kind of pigmy angel that has a yellow face and purple body, but we're not sure. We'll SLOWLY introduce the fish one at a time, let the tank cycle, then the next fish. How does that sound?
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But how can it be a closed system if there's a big opening in the back of my hood...... |
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In fact, there is SO much awesome information in Travis' and Waterkeeper's threads, they are "stickies", and can be found quite easily if looked for in the right place. --- Wendy --- |
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I'm thrilled to report that I'm another step closer to get going with my tank. Yesterday I purchased a Quiet One 4000 return pump, and today I ordered the Octopus NW-200.
As soon as it warms up a bit outside I'll go "wood shopping" and start tinkering with the stand and canopy. Yay. --- Wendy --- |
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Clown & anemone
Hiya,
Can anyone here please let me know what anemone this is as I have been so many different things by other people, I just don't know anymore
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Have you asked in the Anemone & Clownfish forum? Just as a quick guess it could be a Bubble Tip Anemone (Entacmea quadricolor) or Long Tentacle Anemone (Heteractis crispa)
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Travis Stevens |
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Just thought I'd let you know I've added an update to my tank build thread here ( http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1023218 )
Pics included. Travis, I have a question about the cycle.... I added some clean up crew members and started to get an ammonia spike, but I didn't get any nitrites with it. I got a little gun shy so I did a 5g water change (about 1/3 of my volume). How do I tell the difference between a tank that is going through a cycle of some kind (like after the addition of live-stock) and amonia just building up? And at what amonia level do I pull the trigger on what size water change? I am assuming the water change size is dictated by the amount of amonia present, but I'll refer back to my last question in relation to that. Thanks.
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ID help Please
Is this more aptasia or something more desirable? It just 'sprang up' in the sand of our refugium. If this is something more desireable I'm going to have to figure out how to move it up stairs.
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Hopefully that answered your question, but it's difficult to explain predatorrey ratio theories in words. Think of it this way; what would happen if you fed an ant hill, that was in the middle of a field, sugar water and food? What would happen if you had a second ant colony in a stone wall and you deprived it of food on occassion? Of course, the well fed colony with lots of food will grow faster than the one deprived in the stone wall. It's basically the same thing where the ants are the bacteria and you are the source of organic waste. But, as you know how persistent ants are, so are bacteria. No matter what you do, the ant colonies will eventually grow to the size that is supported by the available food. I couldn't tell you accurately without a closer picture, sorry. It looks like it might be a Zoanthid, but it could be a Majano anemone as well.
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ID Part II
Here's a pic of the thing with the item it's attached to. It appears to be attached to an old piece of shell. thanks guys.
[IMG] http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/...id-help-II.jpg[/IMG]
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But how can it be a closed system if there's a big opening in the back of my hood...... |
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I'm 90% sure that those could be Zoanthids.
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I am too since we added an eight polyp colony over the weekend and they look exactly like the ones we bought, which I watched fragged from a much larger colony. Oh, I've added more pics of the pompom Xenia and two mushrooms on our build thread if you're interested. The pompom is already sending out what I'm assuming is a branch to creat another colony. LOVING it! Thanks so much Travis, we couldn't have done it without you dude. Oh, we also added a very smal six line wrasse to handle the pod outbreak. Water parameters are all still stable to.
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I agree with travis.
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Then i probably need to move them out of the refugium and into the DT.
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I know this was answered somewhere else in the thread so I am sorry for asking again.
When you have a sump/refuge setup I assume water evaporates from both the tank and the sump/refuge. How does the tank stay full, or does it not stay full?
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well that makes sense. For some reason I thought I read somewhere that the Display tank always stayed full and water only needed to be added to the sump.
Thanks Modemagic
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Well, the display tank does stay full. What happens is with an overflow, that determines the level of water in the display tank. As water evaporates from the display and sump little by little, the water level is maintained in the display because of the overflow, but the water level in the sump is decreased. Adding your RO water to the sump brings it back up.
After reading my first post I wasn't clear into what tank i was talking about. I pour the water into my sump and have my marks on it. I know it gets low when the water starts to whirlpool in the tank. My sump is actually a smoked acrylic wet/dry filter, so what I did was put a ping pong ball in the return section where the water disappears from, this way I can tell at a glance where my water level is in relation to my mark since my sides are not clear. |
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