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    Got new fish

    I just got back from vacation. Before I left I bough a dozen astrea (sp) snails a half dozen nassarius one sand snail (orange and white shell about 2" long) and doz hermit crabs. More than half the hermits died, possibly because I didn't acclimate them long enough. I still have about 5. All my...
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    It is Ready

    3 1/2 weeks after the tankastrophe it is ready. Last week the ammonia was still off the chart. Checked it today it is 0, nitrites are 0 and the nitrates are at 5ppm. I'm going to do a small water change, about 3G. I'll recheck it tomorrow. I'm going on a 2 week vacation on Tues. but I might go...
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    catastrophy clean up

    Ok, so I've replaced about 12G in the tank. (not counting the 6 I did yesterday) I also took most of the rock and put them in clean water, just in case. I checked and it still reads high about 2 pmm YIKES on ammonia. Is testing immediately after adding the water going to give me an accurate...
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    Catastrophy Strikes

    Mods - I'm not sure if this in the right place or not. Couldn't figure out were to put it in the new set up My daughter had some friends over today. She was showing them the fish when one decided to feed the fish. He dumped the whole container of fish nugget food in the tank. Auughh!. I cleaned...
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    Flat Worms are now gone

    Well mostly. I did the FWE today. First I set up the filter with new charcoal and some charcoal foam inserts. I then set up a 5 gal bucket about half full and treated the water. I put a little more than half my rocks in the bucket along with with a power head. (I left the foundation rocks and a...
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    A couple what are these

    I finally got a somewhat decent picture of some worm type things that are in my tank. They are yellow about 1/2" at the longest with about 4 free flowing feelers(?) at one end. The best view is the one right above the shrimp. My camera doesn't focus well on the rock. I've looked on Melv's reef...
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    A couple what are these

    sorry, double post
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    getting rid of flatworms

    I finally figured out what these things are; I should say I finally found the pic on melevsreef.com It seems getting rid of them isn't the easiest of tasks. I tried siphoning them the other day when I cleaned the tank. I don't think but a few actually made it out of the tank. I was wondering...
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    dirty sand bed

    I have a 29gal tank that's been set up over a year now. I have, or at least think I have, 2 nassariu snails, 4 or 5 hermit crabs, 5 astrea snails, 1 cleaner shrimp and 1 peppermint shrimp. I have seen both my shrimps go around on the sand eating bits of this that so I include them in my clean up...
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    high salinity - how fast can I lower it?

    This morning my coral beauty wasn't doing well. I checked my salt level with my hydrometer. It was at 1.028 (it usuall hangs around 1.026). I haven't added salt water for about 5 months; I can't seem to get it down within a normal range. Anyway I added about a gallon and half of fresh ro/di...
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    fish breathing fast

    So this morning my daughter asks me why our angel fish is breathing funny. Sure enough his lips are extended and he's breathing really rapidly. He's also hiding under a rock which it never does. One of my clowns is exhibiting the same behavior but still ate. My other clown and royal gramma seem...
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    cleaner shrimp

    Last night as I was feeding my anenome. My shrimp decided it was hungry too. Although it had already eaten some other food it went to the anenome sat on top of it and proceeded to take the food away from it. It had to occasionally "lift off" when it would stick to the thing. I was amazed it...
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    Coral Beauty

    My coral is doing fine. I think it pestered the strawberry pseudo to death (literally) but leaves the clown alone. I put in a peppermint shrimp yesterday. (to combat my apstasia forest) The coral constantly swims around were it is hiding. The shrimp came out once when I put some food in the tank...
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    new hitchhiker

    I saw a new hitchhiker today. I tried to get a picture but it disappeared by the time I got back with my camera. It was about 3/4 in long and maybe 1/8 in wide. It looked like a flattened centipede ( the legs? were out to the sides and seemed to have a lot of them) and moved like an inch worm...
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    What is this?

    I left my light off the other day. In the evening I turned it on and saw two of these. They are light purple on the top and seem to be like slug/snail on the bottom. I've seen them more now; maybe because I know they are there so I'm looking. One is about the size of a dime the other is about...
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    What is this

    This isn't the best pic. It's on the top rock and kinda under another so it's hard to get a good pic. I think this is what I saw a while ago on my torch frag. It went away for a while and now it's here. It looks the same as before just bigger. It looks like a flower with a lot of petals; it...
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    Tanks doing good

    Somehow I've gotten real busy the last few weeks. That and my daughter drives me batty every time I sit down at the computer. My tank is doing good though. It's been up almost 2 1/2 months now. I traded in my 2 damsels. Only one was a pistol to catch. I got 2 clown fish. One got stuck in the...
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    my shrimp died

    Yesterday I checked by levels and the ammonia was at.50 so I went to the store as usual the LFS didn't have any s/w made up so I got ro water and made up a batch. The shrimp was fine yesterday he molted again on Mon. and yesterday was just hanging out under a rock, I saw him eat some food. I...
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    new additions

    So yesterday after I had to take my daughter to the dr. She says she wants to go to the pet store. There was one near there so we went there. They are the same company as my LFS/pet store just a different franchise. They have a really nice S/W section. He said they drive down to Atlanta usually...
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    water clearing

    My water is finally clearing up a little. I can actually see the back wall through the tank and about 3/4 of the way through the side view. Last week I noticed a difference after my routine filter cleaning and small water change. It's also not appearing as greenish. I did a 6gal water change...
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