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    Adding Sand and Shrimp questions

    I agree about the 2 local stores. Kermit's sps selection rivals any I've seen anywhere. The sps display tank is awesome. I didn't know that something fishy is turning the freshwater area into a preditor area. I may have to start a fish only tank! Maybe I will use the black and white sand in...
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    Adding Sand and Shrimp questions

    The main reason for wanting to add a more sand, the lfs here has live sand that is black and white. I can't remember where it is from but it looks really good in the tank. I would also like a little deeper sand bed for the critters to stir around in. Yup they are eggs. What are the chances...
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    Adding Sand and Shrimp questions

    I was thinking of adding more live sand to my tank. Its been up and running for 3 months. The sand is only about 1.5" deep. Anyone have a technique to add sand to an established tank? Also, I added a Peppermint shrimp to my tank a few days ago. When I get a close look at it, it looks like...
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    questions about yellow tangs

    I'm a little late here but my purple tang didn't want to eat much when I got him. I put a couple of drops of Seachems Entice on a peice of dried seaweed and before I could get it on the clip he was eating it out of my hand. I'm not sure how it works, but it works.....and it works well.
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    I've spotted a baby turbo!!

    I think you are right. That looks light it. I watched it for a while and it crawled to the top of a small rock and started "spitting" bubbles up in the water. It almost looked like eggs or something. What could it be doing? Why does everything in my tank seem to shoot stuff up in the...
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    I've spotted a baby turbo!!

    I spotted a small snail like thing on a rock last night. With a little closer look it has to be a baby turbo snail. Same everything besides not having a shell yet. I guess they develop a shell?????? It has a small spiral starting on the lower right side of its back.....is this the shell...
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    UV or Not to UV........

    I just don't want the uv to kill off my massive collection of pods my tank has developed. My sump/fuge is loaded also. I have no fish yet but will be adding a few very soon and thought the uv would help with disease.
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    UV or Not to UV........

    Thinking of adding a sterilizer to my reef tank. Other than maintainance, what are the drawbacks to a sterilizer? My set up is a 55gal. with a 20 gal. sump/fuge. How about flow and wattage? Will it kill things like copods or smaller? Thanks E
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    Black film on rock and spreading to sand!

    Bingo! They look like figure 2 in the second article. Not as many tentacles but thats what they look like. They are forming a tube with the sand. One of the tubes is about a 1/4" long. Maybe the tube is being formed to get out from under neath the shrooms?? I guess they are trying to...
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    Black film on rock and spreading to sand!

    I can't figure it out. Oh well I'll keep trying. I did notice that the "strings" that are spread on the sand and drug back with sand stuck to it are building a tube out of the pieces of sand. I have a pic of it but do to my tremendous computer skills I can't figure out how to resize so I...
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    Black film on rock and spreading to sand!

    O.K. I'm a computer moron. How do you resize a pic? :mad: I have a few of this thing but the files too large.
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    Black film on rock and spreading to sand!

    Yup. I rinse it in RO until no dust is coming out at all. I'm probably freaking out over nothing. Just want to do it right. I have kept fish only saltwater for 8 years but this is my first attempt at a reef. Does anyone have any idea what the thing shooting out of the shrooms might be...
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    Black film on rock and spreading to sand!

    SB about 1.5" deep. I used live sand. I fogot to add that I have added 50 or so mysid shrimp. I want to try and get them established before fish. I have pods on top of pods and all kinds of strange creatures that are only out at night. I also have a tiny barnacle looking thing under some...
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    Black film on rock and spreading to sand!

    Its a 55 with a 20 gallon long sump. The sump contains a small refugium with rubble, macroe and light. Light is on in the sump 24/7. Reef devil skimmer. Sump returns at around 400 gallons per hour if I've done my math right. I subtracted 50gph from the total becouse of the use of a scwd...
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    Black film on rock and spreading to sand!

    I posted this on another post but it seems to be getting worse. A thin black film developed on some of my rock and has now spread to the sand. My lfs said it was a bacteria and to use carbon and up my water changes and it would go away. I've done this and it hasn't changed much. Seems to be...
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    Hundreds of tiny white bugs on glass

    I'll try to get a pic. Its coming from about three different places under the shrooms. Each place looks like a tiny barnacle. A little larger than a pin head. Each one throws out a small line or two sometimes three and drags it across the sand and then sucks it back in with whatever is stuck...
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    Hundreds of tiny white bugs on glass

    My lfs said this the shrooms maybe trying to reproduce. It looks to me like the stuff is shooting out of a tiny barnacle or something. E
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    Hundreds of tiny white bugs on glass

    So I should soak the carbon in ro for a day or so before use? I have an Aquaclear 110 I could use for carbon. Can you use this in combination with Phosguard or similar product? My tank developed a little bit of a black film on some of the rock in lower light area's. My lfs said it was a...
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    Hundreds of tiny white bugs on glass

    I had noticed the amphipods before. They have gone crazy. Couldn't tell you how many are in there now. The "mites" are definitely copepods. They are everywhere. I haven't put any fish in my tank yet. I was going to finish with my corals before I added any fish. Will these guys continue...
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    Hundreds of tiny white bugs on glass

    They look like little mites. Anyone know what these might be? Are they good or bad? Thanks E
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