Hi guys and girls, here is a little update of my tank. After the take over, I was very excited to start the hobby, and I know it's going to be difficult. But the former owner had something wrong in the sump, so the parameters were going all the way off. I finally found the problem and solved it with a daily water change.
I am happy everything held strong through this hard time. Unfortunately, two snails have not made it.
And the candy coral is one head bleaching; the rest is doing great, they open nicely, and some of them seem to grow.
Tomorrow I am going to do the last water change, and in a couple of days, I hope everything is going in the right way again.
Can anyone tell me why my snail is vaping😭
Trochus snail eggs or sperm? It’s been doing this for 20 minutes.
I was wondering if there’s any difference between these 2 Nassarius snails. I’m planning to order my CUC soon, but I’m not sure if they’re basically the same except for shell color
Hey guys, im a month in with my first nano (80l) and hitting a bit of trouble which id love some advice on.
Currently no fish, but added 4 trochus snails 10 days ago to start getting some life in there once cycle was complete.
My LFS recommended adding 2 bags of copepods and 2ml of phytoplankton once a week whilst we don't have fish to (i think) speed up algae growth.
For the last 5/6 days the water has looked a bit cloudy and nitrates have dropped from 18 to around 2 or 3. Chat GPT is saying it could be a bacterial bloom.
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(This was yesterday) slugger the snail died. My tank is a little cloudy very fast (in a day) I think it’s the led light
So I’ve got a question.. I have a 55 gallon saltwater aquarium with 20 gallon sump. I neglected the tank for about a two month time frame due to circumstances (not proud of it).. been trying to get it back up and running like it used to. I have 2 clownfish, a royal gramma, coral beauty, 2 chromis, and a Kleins butterfly. My cleanup crew was awful before with only two turbo snails and two emerald crabs. The two turbo snails are no longer in the tank. Would 2 trochas, 3 cerith, 2 nassarius, 2 dwarf hermits, and a cleaner shrimp be a sufficient cleanup crew? That’s with the two emerald crabs already there. And potentially a lawnmower blenny at some point
Staring to feel like a real reef tank! When do I need to start running the skimmer? I didn’t have it on through the cycle and have been gradually adding fish and coral over the last 3-4 weeks. Currently have 5 small fish, 6 shrimp (4 peppermints), 10ish snails and 7 corals (mostly zoa’s, 1 nem). What signs will tell me I need to turn it on? It’s quite loud so trying to work out if I can have it on a timer to only go at night.
Good morning reef fam.
I have a brief question on the sand work. So for my clean up crew at the moment I have a couple zombie snails and some astrea snails. The astrea snails do a great job on the rock and glass work cleaning up algae, the zombies do a good job doing what they do and help turn up the sand, and eating decaying matters of food and fish poops but what can I add or do to better up the sand with other inverts without over cleaning to much that it will interrupt the bio. I do have a bit of hair algae growing, and of course I have diatoms, but like I said I don’t want to over kill anything because the tank is doing amazing, my water parameters and everything are amazing, I do 20% water change every other week. Much appreciated
My zombie snail has risen from the sand
Hi guys and girls, here is a little update of my tank. After the take over, I was very excited to start the hobby, and I know it's going to be difficult. But the former owner had something wrong in the sump, so the parameters were going all the way off. I finally found the problem and solved it with a daily water change.
I am happy everything held strong through this hard time. Unfortunately, two snails have not made it.
And the candy coral is one head bleaching; the rest is doing great, they open nicely, and some of them seem to grow.
Tomorrow I am going to do the last water change, and in a couple of days, I hope everything is going in the right way again.
Everything was going so good i had snails and i got a goby fish with a lid and the goby looks like it’s stressed and isn’t coming out from under the rock and one of the snails died my nitrite and nitrate are high and i did a water change and they are still high what should i do?
I just witnessed either the snail or this coral seemingly shoot water at a 90 degree angle out at a fish. Does anyone know if it’s possible from either of these two things?