I am new to this whole saltwater hobby.. My tank has been setup now for two weeks... I am noticing that around my filter intake I am getting some real nice green algae..I mean reall bright green and colorful... That doesn't bother me on the intake and such...
But on the glass do you guys clean that off like freshwater aquariums?I normally take a razor blade to my frehswater cichlid tanks to get the glass alage off... I know you want to keep algae but I thought only the stuff on the live rock like coraline algae and such?? What do you guys to keep your glass clean?
I have two snails and two blue legged hermits in the tank right now.. The tank is a 15 gallon tall, how many snails and crabs should I have in there? The snails also look a tad strange.. It looks like they have horns growing out of thier shells? Looks like little stalks on thier backs?? What could this be???
About the crabs, how large do blue legged hermits get. I see vendors and people on ebay selling like 50 of these things.. Mine are only the size of my finger nail? I can't see putting 50 of these in a small tank.. But again, they must not get very big?
I also noticed that on my live rock there is a sponge and the other day my son and I noticed that there are little minute bug type creatures moving and jumping all over the sponge area.. We did some research here and there and think they are Copepods? So my tank must be cycling along nicely....I read that copepods are a good thing and not to panic...
Hope to be able to get some fish after the holidays... Don't want to rush into it...
Thanks for the info and suggestions...
Spankey
But on the glass do you guys clean that off like freshwater aquariums?I normally take a razor blade to my frehswater cichlid tanks to get the glass alage off... I know you want to keep algae but I thought only the stuff on the live rock like coraline algae and such?? What do you guys to keep your glass clean?
I have two snails and two blue legged hermits in the tank right now.. The tank is a 15 gallon tall, how many snails and crabs should I have in there? The snails also look a tad strange.. It looks like they have horns growing out of thier shells? Looks like little stalks on thier backs?? What could this be???
About the crabs, how large do blue legged hermits get. I see vendors and people on ebay selling like 50 of these things.. Mine are only the size of my finger nail? I can't see putting 50 of these in a small tank.. But again, they must not get very big?
I also noticed that on my live rock there is a sponge and the other day my son and I noticed that there are little minute bug type creatures moving and jumping all over the sponge area.. We did some research here and there and think they are Copepods? So my tank must be cycling along nicely....I read that copepods are a good thing and not to panic...
Hope to be able to get some fish after the holidays... Don't want to rush into it...
Thanks for the info and suggestions...
Spankey
). You could get a snail per gallon, it couldn't do you any harm. I dont like hermits, that said... you could get a hermit per gallon too, just make sure you have enough shells for them to grow into.