Recent content by clownfish74

[I have noticed that I have a whole bunch of these little white circles on everything, the glass, rocks, turbo snail shells, everything. I took a magnifying glass to get a close up and think I saw them moving and they have these little fiber things coming out one side. What are they? Are they...

[My 58 gallon tank had a major problem with algae so I bought a total of 6 turbo snails and a teaquin (sp) snail to help combat the problem. I also have sand snails (?) and blue legged crabs. One of the turbos died within a day (if he was ever alive to begin with) since bought from the LFS and...

[sorry i did not know how to spell that but there is lots of green turf like algae on my live rock and the rocks around it and i had alot of corolean on the live rock but i just recently got two turbo snails and they seem to be eating the green stuff but it seems that my corolean is less as well...

[I bought a bi-color blenny (at least I think thats what they called him) in order to eat algae in my tank. At first he would hide in the rocks and hopefully was happy. I have not seen him in about 5 days now. Is this normal?]

[When I started my tank a couple months ago, I bought 1 pound of live sand and have a 5 pound live rock. How long does it normally take to get the sand to become live sand? How can you tell if it is live sand? IE: What little critters make it live sand? So far i've seen medium sized green...

[Well, I still don't think my current skimmer is working correctly or I am doing something wrong so I may have to break down and buy a new or another skimmer. I was looking for suggestions as to the best skimmer if performance, cost, and ease of use were all considered. I have a 58 gallon tank...

[Well, most of the crappy algae on the sand floor is now gone, or at least dead. It seems there is "leftover" algae on the sand floor that is what is left over from the first algae bloom from starting up the tank. Now I have little brown things all over the tank, especially on the tank glass...

[I was finally able to hook up my skimmer over the weekend, leak-free (mostly) but it didnt seem to do anything but make bubbles??? I have a generic skimmer with a tube to allow the air in and a mag 5 connected to it. I have tubing at the input of the mag 5 so it takes water farther away from...

[My tank has been live for 1 1/2 weeks and I have the following measurements... Ammonia = ~1.25 ppm Nitrite = ~0.50 ppm Nitrate = ~5.00 ppm There is brown stuff on my white sand bed that covers probably 90% of the tank floor. I started to cut back on how long I have my lights on and got 5...

[My skimmer seems to have a leak inbetween the top part of the black section and the plastic right above it. After some posts on the "New to the Hobby" group I saw that the leak looks to be coming from the inside of the skimmer. I think this because it looks discolored from the surrounding...

[I finally got the motivation to hook up my skimmer, took 2 trips to Home Depot, worked out all the plumming leaks, and noticed that there's a slow leak in the skimmer itself. First, is that normal? Second, is it fixable? Third, if fixable, how? The leak is inbetween the top part of the black...

[I bought my first live rock yesterday (but thats another story altogether - anyways) and put that with Texas holey rock that i've had in the tank a while. I also got a fish and some live sand (only 1 pound - hope to get some more from Maldivan this weekend). Anyway, I put the fish in the tank...

[I'm about to get live rock and sand and was curious if they ate anything? Or do they just eat ammonia? Thanks.]

[All, I'm in the process of arranging my rock in my tank. I currently have what I think is 110 pounds of Texas holey rock and will be getting live-rock soon. I want to know if there are any "strategies" of placing the rock or is it a do what you think looks good kind of thing. I started out...

[What should I use to measure all the wonderful water qualities like pH, ammonia, salinity, etc? Thanks.]