just made a video on youtube of my 3 gallon reef tank.
its kinda dirty, but the video came out pretty nice! :D
Check it out! heres the link.....
Nano Reef Aquarium - YouTube
I used to have this same problem and its the worst! I got my red slime to finally go away by using chemi-pure elite, it removes phosphates and nitrates. And also you say that your phos. is at 0, but the red slime could still be growing off any extra nitrates you might have in the tank. get ur...
oh ok ill just get all new sand, and the dottyback will be good in the 8 for a while then when it starts to grow i can give him to a friend. He seems to even be happy in the 3 gallon!
The fish will get freaked out a bit, but its not to big a deal.
The only thing you have to be careful of is fish jumping out of the tank.
I had a firefish that jumped out on me at least five times!
I have a 3 gallon with some corals and a purple dottyback. Im planning on taking all the live sand and live rock and water from the 3 gallon plus extra sand and rock from the LFS and put it all into the new 8 gallon tank. Im going to have to put in the fish and corals into the new tank right...
Im starting an 8 gallon tank and im putting a 100 gal per hour HOB filter on it. I was wandering if this would give the tank enough water movement or am i gonna need a powerhead? Also how often should i do water changes? Thanks