Altohombre's 46 Gallon Showcase Showdown!

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See if you can find some star snails.They dont seem to be as bad as turbos at committing suicide and they do a great job.I've had the same 7 for 5 months now.

[Altohombre]

I have never seen star snails before. Is there another name for them?

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The only thing I've ever heard them called is star astraea snails.They look like gears with eyes.

[Altohombre]

do they just go by Astraea snails because I have seen them.

[Altohombre]

I just picked up two Intermatic timers today so I am excited to have my tank on a schedule for once. I am still battling hair algae. I have hand cleaned the tank and toothbrush scrubbed the stuff off but it keeps coming back. Seems like my Sera Marin Silicate clear and my Phosban reactor don't do a damn thing to help with the HA. None of my cleanup crew seem to eat it and the Sally Lightfoot Crab I got has been MIA for about 2 weeks as well as my cleaner shrimp has seemed to have disappeared. I am gonna assume that the Sally Lightfoot killed my shrimp and then felt bad and committed suicide.

[RyanG]

Alto have you been keeping up on the phosban changes? They will start leaching the phosphates back into the water table after a month or so.

[simpleman]

No big loss on the SL crab IMO the one in my tank likes to eat the polyps on my ORA long polyp toadstool.

[Bifferwine]

Hahaha! I told you not to get that crab.

Sorry. Perhaps I'm being inappropriate and unsympathetic. Let's try again.

Sorry to hear about your sally lightfoot. That really sucks.

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Gotta love hair algae.
Just keep up with the water changes and you'll eventually get rid of it.
Hate to hear about the sally too.

[Altohombre]

The hair algae is still out of control. I re-added my 2nd Koralia 3 to pick up the water flow. I just don't like how it makes some of my corals not open up fully.

Unfortunately my favorite fish my Midas Blenny died. Over the last three weeks he kept getting skinnier and skinnier and being very picky on what he ate which was not normal for him at all. All the food was garlic and Selcon added and I even fed them arctic pods for snacks. All other fish appear to be healthy. Only thing I am noticing is that a lot of my snails are dying off. My temps don't fluctuate too much maybe up to 84 at highest. My salinity is good. Checked Nitrate and Ammonia and they are both good, and pH is somewhere around normal to a little high. Not really sure what is the cause of all this.