steelerfan's 30 Gallon Breeder Journal/Build
- Thread starter steelerfan67
- Start date
so i got my critters in the main tank yesterday and i was doing a 3 days lights out as i got some type of algae growing and i am not sure what it is.
i don't know if it is briopsis or not? not sure if hair or not either.
it isn't really green but a plain color and some strands are quite long while there is a ton of peach fuzz on the rock as well.
any ideas? wife's camera is dead but am charging in hopes to get a decent pic of it.
i also set my new 4 strip aquatic life t5 on main tank today.
think i like the combo of:
blue+
aqua special
blue that came with light
blue that came with light
will be getting the better ones soon i hope.
anyway my critters had a full day lights out to hide and get situated and i am gonna hopefully get a good foundation of them in next couple months.
i set up qt tank and believe it or not i had added about a gallon and 1/2 to it from my main tank when i was having the bad bloom going on in my tank, and now my qt tank is cloudy like that from the bloom :mad2:
going to start the ammonia/dr. tim combo and hope that bloom in the qt goes fast as there is no rock in there.
i don't know if it is briopsis or not? not sure if hair or not either.
it isn't really green but a plain color and some strands are quite long while there is a ton of peach fuzz on the rock as well.
any ideas? wife's camera is dead but am charging in hopes to get a decent pic of it.
i also set my new 4 strip aquatic life t5 on main tank today.
think i like the combo of:
blue+
aqua special
blue that came with light
blue that came with light
will be getting the better ones soon i hope.
anyway my critters had a full day lights out to hide and get situated and i am gonna hopefully get a good foundation of them in next couple months.
i set up qt tank and believe it or not i had added about a gallon and 1/2 to it from my main tank when i was having the bad bloom going on in my tank, and now my qt tank is cloudy like that from the bloom :mad2:
going to start the ammonia/dr. tim combo and hope that bloom in the qt goes fast as there is no rock in there.
Good to hear you got the clean up crew in the tank!!!! How do you like the light??? I bet it is nice! Pics please :thm:
light is pretty nice benson. i got it 2 months ago when an online site had a big sale and premium aquatics matched the price for me.
i also went to get a thermometer at the lfs today and they had a porcelain crab who is now sitting in my tank. pretty cool little guy.
will try to get pics when camera is charged
i also went to get a thermometer at the lfs today and they had a porcelain crab who is now sitting in my tank. pretty cool little guy.
will try to get pics when camera is charged
i have some type of hairish algae going on that i really don't know what it is.
grabbed some pics below if anyone wants to guess?
also started cycling the qt tank today with ammonia and the dr tim bacteria, so hopefully in about 10-14 days i can be looking for a first fish purchase.
couldn't get a pic of "cecil" the porcelain crab, as the little guy is in back of tank doing the matrix with his catcher mitts.
any thoughts on that stuff growing, love to hear them. thanks again guys.
grabbed some pics below if anyone wants to guess?
also started cycling the qt tank today with ammonia and the dr tim bacteria, so hopefully in about 10-14 days i can be looking for a first fish purchase.
couldn't get a pic of "cecil" the porcelain crab, as the little guy is in back of tank doing the matrix with his catcher mitts.
any thoughts on that stuff growing, love to hear them. thanks again guys.
ammonia in qt tank was at 1 ppm this morning having added the 10 drops of ammonia as directions.
hoping it will be at 2ppm by tomorrow.
hoping it will be at 2ppm by tomorrow.
I don't see anything that looks like bryopsis but its hard to tell. Definitely some sort of macro IMO. Do any of the ends have a fern look/shape to them? Are the real long strips alage or more like a spider web?
Regardless the tank looks great!
Regardless the tank looks great!
hi greech,
no fernlike shape, more of just a peach fuzz thing going on.
the real long is more of a spider webbish thing which i am not sure what it could be.
i was thinking of getting 1 turbo snail and throwing him in there and see if he eats it as i hear they do a job on hair type algae. i would then just bring him back to lfs so he wouldn't starve.
speaking of which, reading the porcelain crab i have is a filter feeder. you think feeding frozen mysis would be acceptable for him.
read also that they like an anemone but is there an lps/polyp type coral you think resembles 1 that it may possibly host as i have heard clowns will do that type of thing.
Frozen mysis is way to big for "filter feeders", even porcelain crabs. Think cyclopeze size stuff for filter feeders. They hang out under anemones but don't require them, they will do just fine without an anemone, only reason they like them in nature is for the protection, but if there is nothing in your tank that could harm it there is no need for that protection. Spider web stuff could be speghetti worms (good to have) or it could be the start if dinoflagellates which is bad but I would guess it is worms because that is far more common.
thanks ace,
would you try target feeding the little guy or as long as it is in water column he would be ok?
when i first put him in a couple of my nass snails went for him but he stood his own and all looks ok for now.
i don't think it would be spaghetti worms as i started with all dry rock and sand and never added them.
i have picked the stuff off before but it does grow back.
oh dino would be just great
