eviljunglenoodle

No attempts of the mantis eating the fish, or is the key to always keep it well fed?

Thanks sergebmw3!

@Smann - I'll put up some closer pics but there are acrylic rods going up through the 2 columns, they are glued to a flat acrylic base that is sitting on the glass bottom- this also made me feel better in case something fell or if a rock were to drop onto the bottom. So I just drilled through the rocks to fit the rods, there are also a couple zip ties helping with the rocks making the horizontal bridge.

From a couple weeks ago, haven't had a chance to take pics lately

Hitchhiker Acro crab

^ Lol (laugh)

Add me pleease

The tank is looking really great!

CUC should always be the first thing added to a tank' date=' and since the tank just finished it's cycle, you might should of waited a few more weeks, preferably months, before putting corals in.[/quote']

 

You want me to keep snails for a few months, really?? Is that what everyone does and recommends here? If anything the good bacteria is going to decrease and is still going to have to adjust when you slowly add things- I don't see any advantage of waiting a few months over a few days, in fact it seems more risky to me since you don't have a steady ammonia lvl to feed the live rock- whatever, but thanks for the positive response lol

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Is the Balling Method essentially 2 part?

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Have you checked your water parameters lately?

Just a quick update- ammonia is zero, nitrite is at about .5 and nitrate 50- nitrite is taking forever lol. Algae is now starting mainly in the sump and a a few tiny spots in the display tank- *twiddles thumbs* (whistle)

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Well mine is painfully slow- no issues with threads disappearing- tracert shows when it hops to miami and to dimenoc.com/hostdime is when it is slow, that would tell me the host provider has an issue-

So so sorry for your loss :( Would something like polyfilter help with something like this, although water changes and carbon I would assume will get rid of most of the bad stuff if the nem died- keep us updated-

What I used on my 6 light setup is 3 blue plus, 1 purple plus and 2 aquablue specials which is similar to madmike's suggestion-

I went for the eco rock and some of their shelf rock and am super happy with it

Great looking clam, hopefully he makes it through just fine-

Ohhhh how do I enroll for the clam police?? I want one of those snazzy badges!

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It has settled but the water is still slightly milky looking, I think because my Koralias keep moving the sand a little bit from the flow-

Yeah you are right, we played around with flow and different fittings and got it quieter, I also put some media on the skimmer outlet to help with dampening water noise-

So after starting this tank on 1/16 with a raw shrimp the levels are now 2 ppm ammonia which was recently off the chart, nitrites are now off the chart- or at least a shade I can't find on the card lol- and 20 ppm nitrate. The fines from the sugar sand is still blowing around some so it's not crystal clear yet, will take some more pics once it looks a little better

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If I only had room! bumpity...

Welcome and congrats on the new tank!