I just recently setup a small 45 gallon system in my basement. Its doing pretty well so far. Everything in the tank was a rescue attempt from a friend that was neglecting his tank and animals. He just didn't have the time needed for the tank upkeep and let it go downhill pretty bad. Everything was covered in hair algae and had been for a long period of time. At one time the tank was awesome. For a 29 gallon he had some pretty cool stuff in there. Most of the soft corals died, but I was able to save a few. He lost all of the sps corals that he had and a number of fish. I also saved 3 small rose anenomes that are doing fine and about 40-50 lbs of rock. The rock has a lot of the purple corraline and green star polyp stuff, but both are still being smothered by the green hair. When I transfered the stuff over, I used a toothbrush to get most of it off. It just keeps coming back with a vengeance. I've lowered the lighting to a minimum and have kept going in and toothbrushing the stuff the best I can. Since I had to do this in such a short amount of time(my friend got a job in California, which is why he left me with the rescue mision) I've spent more money than I wanted to in a very short time. I think it'll pay off in the end for buying water instead of using tap, and setting the system up with decent lighting and filteration. But now I'm dead broke. So, does anyone in the portland area have any crabs,snails or some of those green diamond crabs that I could take off your hands. I scrounged up enough money to buy like 10 crabs the other day, but they're just not cutting it. They need the cavalry to come help out. If you can help me out, that would be awesome and you'd definately help get things started in the right direction for the new system.
Thanks in advance for help and any other ideas!!
Thanks in advance for help and any other ideas!!