masterchef's first saltwater adventure

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• Oct 29, 2009

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so about a month ago i decided to take the jump into the sw scene. I am no stranger to the fish scene i have had aquariums on and off since about the age of 12,
so heres what i have so far
29gallon glass tank
wrought iron stand
30lbs of live sand
35lbs of live rock
1. korilia 2 power head
1. aqua clear 30 power head
aquatic life t5 HO light with 1 blue lunar light
marineland bio wheel 400 hob filter
seaclone 100 protien skimmer (yea yea i know its not great but its gonna be replaced as the bio load gets bigger)
an under construction custom hood
two ocellaris clown fish
one green chromis(was three but the other two dissapeared)
two turbo snails
3 cerith snails
2 blue leged hermit crabs

 

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pics of the tank and aquascaping

pics of the fish

 

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the hood in progress

 

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• Oct 29, 2009

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Looks like a good start to me. If you haven't done so already, you can do without the biowheel.

 

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question what do you mean "do with out the biowheel"

 

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• Oct 29, 2009

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Pretty sure it means take off the bio-wheel from the filter. Good looking start. What is the yellow and black stuff in the sand?

 

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thats what i though but wanted to be sure, and the black is the sand its indo pacific sand if i remember correctly what looks like yellow is actulay green and ive been told its coraline algae i have it on my rocks too

 

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• Oct 30, 2009

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I doubt it will be coralline algae on the sand...i would expect just basic green algae, whcih you can syphon out...

And yeah, remove the bio-wheel filter...no real need for it...

 

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yea ill pull the bio wheels out no sense having them if they do no good.the algae on the sand looks like the algae thats on rocks should i scrub it off? it dosent look like hair algae, but i do know i have coraline algae pic two shows it really good

 

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The bio-wheels actually work too well, which is the reason to remove them. You want your live rock doing the bio-filtration, not the bio-wheels. Bio-wheels are best left for fw use, where there's not typically as much surface area for bacteria to populate as there is in a sw tank with live rock.

You do have coralline algae on your rocks, but the green is not coralline algae. It's not hair algae, either. It's a green algae that grows more like a film. You can scrub it off or recruit an algae grazing snail to clean it up for you.