Recent content by CastorTroy2150

OK so it has been a while since I have posted....everything seems to be going well. One question, my sand is covered in brown stuff, diatoms I guess, and I made a curious discovery today. The sand in one area is white on top, it looks as if a lego man sized grenade went off, there is a hole and...

OK will do, a few more questions. My rocks that are growing into live rock have now changed from the red sploches to brown :grumble:, there are a few red/pink sploches left but very few, why? I am also wondering the best cleaner crew setup for my 35 galon tank, how many snails crabs etc and what...

Well I am well passed restacking rock, and my tank has been cycling for over a month now with 3 Damsels.... I got my test kit and ran my own tests, results: Ammonia 0 ppm Ph 8.1 Nitrite 0 ppm Nitrate 160 ppm I am really confused...as my Ammonia was a yellow as it can get, which means 0ppm...

Hmmmm not sure, but looking at the pics and searching the other suggestions, I'm afraid that it seems to be aiptasia....:frustrat: CRAP! they are small and hard to tell, but if it is Aiptasia, I have like 6 right now, how did I get them?! :grumble: If you look at the link dcantucson posted, the...

Ok, so I have all kinds of live rock growing know, some rocks are almost completely covered...the little tube creatures are growing slowly and are showing up on other rocks. The red and light green on the rocks is spreading soooo fast now I can't contain my excitement.:^: I found 2 new guys...

Well not holes, they look like very mini featherduster tubes or something.....could living animals take this long to show up? And when you say in holes with their arms hanging out........I don't understand could you explain what exactly they would look like a little better

Wait, mini brittle stars?! The white stems are far apart, not all together and they also seems to be attached to the rock, or is this how they start growing?

OK I AM REALLY EXCITED!!!:^: I was staring at my tank today, (I know, I know get a life:11:) and noticed on my original live rock I bought , there were about 4-5 small white stems.... I had seen them before but never thought much about them, they are about as long as a pencil lead.... Well I got...

OK, so most of my rock have 5-6 pencil eraser sized marks on them:^:, pink in color and they seem to be growing larger and more appreaing. Is this the coraline spreading, they are rosey rash looking marks, as if I smudged some red magic marker on them and tried to wipe it off resulting in a...

:bounce: excitement! The sides are touching, the rear is actually 100% independent....so I will stack the rock a bit higher and remove the sides a bit to get em off the glass.And Im confuse, I dont plan on adding any more fish anytime soon, unsure of what you ment, the 3 that are in there are...

Ok here are some pics, The blue blurs are the fish, curious lil guys, like the camera, or the are planning thier revenge...:mrgreen: I also have like a wierd haze on my rocks, not on all just a few, i donno if its just the rocks or if something is growing. I do also see a couple red and green...

Ok well to answer the questions I have been mixing saltwater from salt(obviously).and R0 water to match my sailinity. I know that a Refractometer is the better of two but have yet to order one as my LFS didn't have one..plan on it sometime in the nest few days, have been using a hydrometer...

Ok so a few weeks into this now, live rock is in the tank. I tired the scrubbing with a toothbrush that was suggested to spread/seed the other rock... still no growth anywhere else....unsure as to where to go from here....there seems to be nothing going on at all.....When doing water changes, do...

I too am looking for some lighting but for a 40 gallon hex tank...I am not ready for corals yet but will be in thr not o distant future. With the odd shape of the tank and it being so tall, any suggestions? Any help would be greatly aprriciated! Thanks!

Ok, sounds good, Is there anyone on here that could make a suggestions for some lighting. I want to have some soft corals and the like down the road, and need to know about lighting. I have only a single bulb lamp now and do not know if the sell a replacement hood that I will be able to get the...