Recent content by RustyT22

Does Purigen hurt cheato?

I went ahead and purchased the media basket from stevie T and mediabaskets.com for my biocube 29. Now my questions are two fold: I currently have about half the bioballs in chamber 2, but will need to remove them to insert the media basket. Will it cause a spike to remove all of the beneficial...

About 4-5 months.

I have read that a lot of people keep the third chamber almost full of water. This is what in was planning to do as well if I did this.

Cheato and light would be a bad idea in #3 if I put filter floss around the intake on the pump?

I've recently had a decent spike in nitrates and ammonia. Because of that, i just did a 33% water change and switched out the filter floss as well, which will solve the problem short term. Long term though, I'm getting worried that when I took out half the Bioballs to put in my DIY basket...

I didnt. Had never heard of it till now, but they thrived for weeks before dying out.

Any idea what that is on the glass and if it's a Nudibranch? Ive only seen it a handful of times, and always on the glass. never on or near the rocks of the zoas. I know the pic sucks though. (the pic is in my post above this)

I dont know the exact numbers due to the lfs doing the test and telling me it's good or not, which it was usually right on. I am purchasing the reef master kit and saltwater master kit tonight from Big Als. The lights are the stock led nights, but the day and acticnic are compact flourescent...

The only thing I can think of is that I was told to use "purple up" to get my coraline algae really growing well. I was adding a half cap full every other day per the lfs. I dont know if the lfs tests for calcium, but maybe I spiked my calcium too high? I didnt mention this, but the fish and...

I've had the tank up and running for about 3 months now, and had the zoas for about 4 weeks. They were doing great, then all of the sudden the zoas closed up and wouldn't open back up. They have slowly died off and now there are very few left. I need help finding out whats wrong. Here's the...

Is this a good addition to my tank? I want him, but don't know how to care for a coral branded shrimp. Also, I want one of these too. Pajama Cardinal is what its called I believe? Just wanted you guys' input on the two additions. Also, any help with my zoas would be great. They quit...

The stock biocube 29g lighting. I believe it has compact fluorescents for the daylight and actinic, and leds for the moon light. Will that add color back into the star polyps?

Any ideas what these three items are? Now that Im finding out how much bad stuff I've got in my tank, I want to be careful. This is the first coral that popped up from the live rock. I think it's Polyps (sp?) but not sure. It seems to spread really quick which is cool now in an empty...

As far as the manjano anemone goes, I tried to remove it and it ended up tearing into pieces rather than coming out whole. It was pretty small, but should I be worried about that causing a cycle? Or spreading that way? I hope not...